Employee scheduling software
Employee scheduling software automates the process of creating and maintaining a schedule. Such software will usually track vacation time, sick time, compensation time, and alert when there are conflicts. As a database of schedules are accumulated over time, it may analyze past activity and prepare data for payroll. Although it may not make strategic decisions to lower costs and improve performance, it does manage the tasks.
For smaller businesses it is increasingly important to keep the costs low on this administrative task, which can be quite large keeping the composition of the modern workforce in mind. Many smaller businesses have part time workers who may be studying on the side or have other jobs they attend to. Flexible management of availability of the employees, shift trading, automatic scheduling processes and the such are key in keeping the costs down. Many vendors are based exclusively online to meet the increasingly web savvy workforce of today.
Scheduling is also done in aviation for flying crews i.e. cockpit crews and cabin crews. Scheduling software enables generation of schedules for the crew on a weekly or monthly basis, providing schedules on the basis of guidelines provided by Civil Aviation requirements, which differ from country to country. These requirements also change when a carrier flies internationally or crosses borders. This software may be a part of an ERP package or a module of such packages, which is effective for an operations department.
Benefits
Employee scheduling software can be an essential part of everyday business processes. Although software won't improve business practices by itself, it does automate typically tedious business administration. Some even calculate factors such as approved employee requests, hours of availability, business hours, business needs, shift trades, etc; and automatically create a work schedule that fits everybody's needs. Shift scheduling experts can be hired to work on strategic challenges if your team can't go it alone, but software typically manages the task of automation and data collection. By providing large amounts of data, management teams can use that data to form opinions and create actionable plans. Some of the benefits are listed below:
- Better achievement of contracted service level agreements
- Field workers completing more jobs per day
- Improved worker, equipment and vehicle utilization
- Increases transparency of field operations
- Minimized job administration costs
Small businesses should consider a variety of factors when evaluating software or web based staff scheduling solutions:
- Learning curve — how quickly staff will be able to get up and running with the new solution.
- Ability to maintain the schedule — web based solutions provide a high level of availability versus locally installed solutions.
- Ability to let staff members collaborate on the schedule — provide their preferences and swap shifts between them.
- Ability to easily identify unassigned shifts.
- Ability to create reports for invoicing and payroll.
List of Employee scheduling software providers
- ZoomShift, Online Employee Schedule, ZoomShift is online employee scheduling software that is easy to use, powerful, and flexible. (homepage)
- Celayix Software, Employee Scheduling Software. Part of a full Workforce Management Suite. Applicable to any industry. (homepage)
- DRoster, automatic no overtime employee scheduling software, desktop solution with 4 planners and DRosterLive employee portal on the web. ([homepage)]
- EZShift, automatic employee scheduling software, staff site, text messaging, overtime management (homepage)
- Employee Scheduling Pro, Simple employee scheduling software with graphical shift editing. ([homepage)]
- EMS Manager, Online employee scheduling system specifically designed for EMS departments. Includes member database, forum, document storage, auto trading, time off tracking, and more. (homepage)
- eSchedule, Easy Employee Scheduling Software, web-based solution (homepage)
- eResource Scheduler, collaborative resource scheduling software by Enbraun. It schedules employees & other custom defined resources on projects, jobs, events etc. Provides drag & drop scheduling, Timesheet, Utilisation report, Forecasting report and Financial report. (homepage)
- Fire Manager, Online employee scheduling system specifically designed for fire departments. Includes member database, forum, document storage, auto trading, time off tracking, and more. (homepage)
- Ganttic, Online employee and resource scheduling tool. Allows job/task grouping by projects, filtering, reporting and data export. (homepage)
- Hello Scheduling, employee scheduling software, web-based solution, visual calendar (homepage)
- MyWorkShift, employee scheduling software, web-based solution, text messaging, visual calendar, drag-and-drop, free (homepage)
- NimbleSchedule, web-based employee scheduling, multi-location support,collaborative scheduling (homepage)
- OPTI-TIME, workforce scheduling software, web-based solution (homepage)
- Otipo, employee scheduling software, web-based solution, text messaging (homepage)
- ScheduFlow, Mobile and Desktop Calendaring. Online Version is the first Desktop scheduling solution. Stores calendars online in the cloud but runs on the desktop and can allow mobile access by employees (SAAS). (homepage)
- ScheduleAnywhere, online employee scheduling software to ensure staffing requirements and reduce overtime [1]
- ScheduleBase, web-based employee scheduling software, communicate schedules using email or text messages [2]
- ScheduleSoft Software, SAP® solutions provider and Oracle Gold Partner, ScheduleSoft provides optimized employee workforce scheduling software that is rules-based and easily configurable. (homepage)
- Scheduling, web based employee scheduling software (homepage)
- Scheduling Manager, employee scheduling calendars, accounts receivable, payroll, mapping, crm, QuickBooks interface, SMS messaging (homepage)
- ShiftPlanning, Easy to use Employee Scheduling Software & Workforce Management Software with integrated Time Clocking, Payroll, Reporting, File Sharing & Communication (homepage)
- Smart Employee Scheduling, Online, specifically designed for scheduling many employees with many clients, employee scheduling for small and mid sized businesses (homepage)
- Roboroster, online employee scheduling software, visual shift schedules, shift attendance and employee activity records, employee logins, inter-company messaging, company news, employee availabilities, SMS messaging, emergency shift fills, shift swaps and PDF reporting (homepage)
- RosterLive, web-based employee scheduling software, online timesheets,employee self serivce,sms messaging (homepage)
- TimeSimplicity, online employee and workforce scheduling, drag-n-drop, demand bars, shift trade and drop board, post open shifts, email and text(sms) collaboration, meet demands and reduce overtime (homepage)
- TimeTracker, mature employee scheduling software (homepage)
- TimeWellScheduled, Fully tailored time and attendance with employee scheduling and payroll export (homepage)
- WhenToWork, online employee scheduling (homepage)
- WorkSchedule.Net, web based employee scheduling software (homepage)
- When I Work, web-based and mobile employee scheduling (homepage)
- Zanager, Online employee scheduling system which also includes a member database, forum, document storage, auto trading, time off tracking, and more. (homepage)
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