The phrase "assign staff" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to giving certain people certain tasks or responsibilities, for example: "The manager assigned staff to different departments within the company."
Mr. Boyle also said that he would have assign staff to empty it, make space to store the bottles while they awaited pick up by distributors and make sure they are clean so the empty bottles don't attract bugs.
My job is to assign staff members to events and to coordinate schedules for everyone, including event supervisors, crew leads, servers and delivery drivers, many of whom are older than me.
Although it is a common, and accepted, practice for political candidates to assign staff members to research their rivals, the use of private investigators is controversial because such investigators are not directly supervised by campaign staff members and often pride themselves on using intimidation or deception to gain information.
But although everyone knows what an encyclopedia is, and the pages of Wikipedia can be edited with a few clicks, not many people understand the patent process, or know how to read a patent.Another concern is that the people who take part in the project will represent vested interests—in particular, big technology firms which can assign staff to review patents.
Radio and Television Business Report, a Web site that watches the broadcasting industry, noted that Mr. Spratt's concern was an unusual one in this day and age, saying, "he will have to go into hiding if that's what he hopes to prevent -- he will have a very hard time getting out of camera range when every citizen is a potential electronic journalist and campaigns assign staff to tail one another".
As a result, administrators cannot distinguish between occupied and unoccupied beds, and may therefore assign staff to unoccupied beds.
In 1998, the National Security Council assigned staff to determine whether that conclusion was justified.
It has also drawn up protocol and assigned staff and equipment to decontaminate containers as required, he said.
Dan Silverman, the board's New York regional director, assigns staff investigators to cases and they usually take six to eight weeks to determine whether to issue a complaint.
John Kerry has given more grist to critics who label him aloof and insincere by assigning staff members to write his cheesy blog.
The bailout law also gave monitoring duties to the federal Office of the Comptroller General, which has already assigned staff members to the new Treasury operation.
