Shift Scheduling software
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opiate82
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What kind of business and how many employees?
I just use an excel spreadsheet I built. I even programmed in numbers for easily tracking labor usage based on expected sales. It is very tailored for my business (pizza restaurant) and is built based on my managers making a schedule weekly.
I just use an excel spreadsheet I built. I even programmed in numbers for easily tracking labor usage based on expected sales. It is very tailored for my business (pizza restaurant) and is built based on my managers making a schedule weekly.
Convo
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9 employees, basically need 2 shifts a morning and night. 6am start and a 12, 1 or 2pm start. end time would be 10pm for that second shift. has to cover 7 days a week. We can go 8 hours, a mix of 8/10 hours, all 10's, or a 5/4/9hour shift. pretty much need 6 people on each day. 3 on each shift. The issue is you end up working a lot of weekends with the current schedule and we are trying to avoid that.. really hard to figure out a decent alternative..
BoldW
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Have you thought of online scheduling like HotSchedules or Shiftboard? What's nice is employees can check/manage their schedules from their phones browser or mobile app, so there's really no excuses. Can also do some cool reporting and alert features. Not sure on shiftboard, but Hotschedules also integrates with your POS, assuming you're retail.
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nah this isn't for retail but thanks for the suggestion. Right now, I'm just looking for a few different schedules so we can implement the best one. We have a 10/8 hour hybrid we like but we don't think management will go with it.
I wish there was a program that I could plug all of our parameters in and it would spit out different schedules based on them.
opiate82
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Sorry, kind of forgot I replied to this, sounds like what you are looking for and what I use are two different things.
For just 9 employees over four shifts is it really that difficult/time consuming just to do it by hand each week? Granted I have a tool that helps somewhat with my spreadsheet, but that is basically what my managers have to do for 25+ employees covering 150-200 shifts a week and they spend maybe an hour a week making the schedule, two hours tops if there happen to be a lot of requests for time off that particular week.
For just 9 employees over four shifts is it really that difficult/time consuming just to do it by hand each week? Granted I have a tool that helps somewhat with my spreadsheet, but that is basically what my managers have to do for 25+ employees covering 150-200 shifts a week and they spend maybe an hour a week making the schedule, two hours tops if there happen to be a lot of requests for time off that particular week.