3 Tips to Help You Schedule Hourly Employees Better

When you are managing a business that has hourly employees, things can get a little tricky when trying to put a schedule together. Even if you are using a scheduling software, there will always be schedule changes for different reasons. Let’s focus on the restaurant industry, for example. For some reason, there are still a lot of restaurant owners that rely on the pen-and-paper method for creating their schedules. Often, even their method for distributing the schedule is old school and low-tech; for instance, taping the schedule on the wall. Surprisingly, even those who have introduced computers to their scheduling process still struggle. This is mostly because they are using methods like Excel spreadsheets and email to create and distribute their schedules. What they fail to realize is that there is a solution to their problems, and implementing the following 3 tips can help them out.

Time & AttendanceGuest UserJuly 16, 2018Group Scheduling, Timekeeping, Hourly Employees, SchedulingComment

3 Tips to Help You Schedule Your Employees

How many employees do you manage? Do you have a hard time creating schedules to make everyone happy?Your employees might be juggling school, families, additional jobs, and other things that they are trying to fit into their schedule. As a manager, it is your job to create a schedule that not only works for you but also your employees. Although it can be hard to achieve the perfect schedule, it is possible. Whether you use a scheduling app or stick to the old pen and paper method, there are tips that can help make scheduling easier for both you and your employees.

Business, Payroll, Human ResourcesGuest UserFebruary 20, 2018Group Scheduling, Time and Attendance, employee schedule, SchedulingComment

Happier Holidays with Time Off

It’s the holiday season again and your employees are taking time off. If you don’t have an employee self-service portal in place with a time off system, requesting and approving time off can be quite a messy experience for both employees and managers. Employees may have thought they communicated their vacation plans to management or could have miscalculated their personal time off hours. Managers or supervisors may have missed requests, or overlapped or left gaps in their scheduling, but with a solid time off system in place incidents like those will help eliminate human error by adding three fundamental benefits that will keep PTO requests and hours on track.