2 weeks on 2 weeks off schedule calendar (14/14)

How the 2 weeks on 2 weeks off pattern works

The 28-day cycle puts you on site for half the year and at home for the other half, in long blocks. Offshore and remote-site rotations like this are written 14/14: the days on include the travel and handover days, so check what your employer counts as a working day before you rely on the hours.

Also searched for as: 14 on 14 off, 14/14 rotation, two weeks on two weeks off FIFO.

The cycle is 28 days long: 14 shifts, 14 days off, and then it starts again.

Every crew, day by day

One full cycle for each crew, so you can see who covers what.

The numbers

A year is 365.25 days on average, so the yearly figures are averages; the calendar above counts the exact days of the year you pick.

Good and bad about 2 weeks on 2 weeks off

In its favour

• Two full weeks at home in every cycle
• Half the year free to plan around
• Only about 13 trips to site a year

Against it

• Fourteen days in a row away from home
• Long days with little time off during the hitch
• Missing events that fall in your two weeks on

Who uses 2 weeks on 2 weeks off

Common in offshore oil and gas, mining camps, remote construction and other fly-in fly-out work.

Employers run these patterns in slightly different ways, and a union contract or roster can differ from the version here. The grid above is exact for the cycle shown: if your roster differs, choose “My own cycle” in the calendar and type it in.

Other shift patterns

• 7 on 7 offOne week working, one week off, repeated.Open
• 3 weeks on 3 weeks offTwenty-one days working, then twenty-one days off, repeated.Open
• 4 weeks on 4 weeks offTwenty-eight days working, then twenty-eight days off, repeated.Open
• 2 weeks on 1 week offFourteen days working, then seven days off, repeated: a 21-day cycle that spends two thirds of the year at work.Open

All shift patterns and the cycle builder

Frequently asked questions