Employee Scheduling Software - Benefits

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
• Reduce unproductive workforce due to over scheduling
• Use weather forecasts to predict staffing needs

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.