Pitman (EOWEO) Rotation Schedule Generator

Pitman — sometimes written EOWEO, for "every other weekend off" — runs on exactly the same 14-day cycle as Panama: two on, two off, three on, two off, two on, three off. There is no difference in the math between the two. Anyone telling you Pitman and Panama are structurally different rotations is describing the naming, not the cycle.

Panama can start on any date — the cycle just runs from wherever day one lands. Pitman pins that same cycle to the calendar week, specifically so the three-day-off block at the end of the cycle lands on a full Saturday and Sunday every other week, not on some other pair of weekdays. That is the entire point of the name: Panama names the cycle itself, Pitman names the cycle anchored to the week so weekends fall where people expect them to.

In practice, a lot of employers use "Pitman" and "2-2-3" interchangeably, and some use "Panama" for the anchored version too — the terminology is genuinely inconsistent across industries. What matters operationally is whether the schedule is pinned to the calendar week, not which of the names gets used for it.

Pitman shows up most often in continuous-coverage jobs where staff expect a real weekend now and then — police, fire, dispatch, security, and hospital shift work all commonly run some version of it, since those are exactly the jobs that need round-the-clock coverage but also need to keep people around long enough to want the job. Like Panama, it covers 24/7 with four 12-hour crews averaging 42 hours a week, the same structure as every rotation on this site — and like every page here, generating a calendar below will show you exactly which weekday each crew's cycle lands on.