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

5 Ways the Food and Beverage Industry Can Benefit with Payroll and HR Software

Running a restaurant or bar is time-consuming, demanding and stressful. What if I told you a payroll and HR software can simplify your everyday HR tasks? I am in the marketing department at Dominion Systems, a payroll and HR SaaS (Software as a Service) company, but I also have about 10 years of experience working in the food and beverage industry. I’ve worked at multiple restaurant locations and received multiple promotions enabling me to work in different departments ranging from front of house positions, to marketing manager, to floor manager, allowing me to see many aspects of what goes into running a restaurant. I wanted to put my experience from both industries together to bring you value, which is why I’m going to share how a payroll and HR software can be valuable to your company in the food and beverage industry.

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

Utilizing Group Scheduling to Keep Track of Seasonal Workers

Managing a group of part time workers can be overwhelming at times. Constant changes in almost every employee’s schedule makes keeping a consistent weekly group schedule next to impossible. With summer almost here, many businesses employing part time seasonal workers are gearing up for a new crew. To better manage your employees’ schedules, you may want to consider a scheduling feature that can handle all of the changes that come with having seasonal employees.

Human Resources, BusinessMarketing TeamMay 13, 2016Time and Attendance, Time & Attendance, Group SchedulingComment

Using Leave Management to Create Your Summer Schedules

With Summer quickly approaching managers and HR departments everywhere are beginning to see an influx of time off requests. Family vacations, weekend getaways, and the Friday half-days are suddenly back and it’s becoming increasingly harder to schedule employees and keep up with who has what day off. This isn’t a new problem, it happens every year and every year we manage to mix up someone’s time off and try to schedule them to work on their vacation. This year let’s look at a different approach; leave management software paired with group scheduling is a great solution to your scheduling headaches, giving you a clear picture of employee availability when creating your weekly schedule.

Human ResourcesMarketing TeamApril 13, 2016Leave Management, Online Leave Management Systems, Group SchedulingComment