Scheduling

Chances are you have employees. Whether you run a store, a restaurant or a carwash you have to have staff to make the business run. Chances are you also have to have schedules for your employees so they know when to show up at work. Now you have a lot of options when it comes to how you want to get this done. We’ve heard of people simply drawing up the schedule every week on a piece of paper, or more commonly using Microsoft Excel to create one. But these crude methods create problems:

• Communication: Once you post a schedule it’s up to employees to check the schedules. For some it’s not a problem, but for others this entails driving up to work and physically looking or calling up to work to find out-which wastes the time of the employees working.
• Availability: As a business owner you always have something on your mind. The absolute last thing you have room for in your memory is every employee’s availability. You accidentally schedule someone at a time they can’t work and you have to redo the whole thing, or worse yet they don’t show up for a shift they can’t work.
• Simplicity: If you’ve got a lot of employees (or even just a handful) then you have to format the Excel file and go through each cell typing in the times. This is time consuming and could get complicated if you aren’t experienced at Excel.

So what solution do we recommend for solving your scheduling needs? An employee scheduling software (click the link for site) called online schedule assistant. This site enables you to save employee availability and reminds you if you schedule employees at an unavailable time, it delivers each employee a copy of the schedule via email (automatically) and is very easy to use. Your various managers can access the system with their own unique profiles and unlike other sites, the amount of employees you can add isn’t limited.