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    Updates
    3 min read | July 21, 2016

    SubItUp and IMLeagues Partner-Up to Bring Online Scheduling Efficiencies to Intramural Game Management

    Manchester, NH – July 5, 2016 - SubItUp, the leading online employee scheduling platform for campus recreational facilities, has advanced its support of intramural game scheduling via its new...
    Campus Recreation
    3 min read | July 12, 2016

    SubItUp Hires Experienced Campus Rec Veteran to Intensify Market Focus

    Product Specialist to Support Growing Demand for Improved Event and Employee Scheduling inCampus Recreational Facilities
    5 min read | June 30, 2016

    This Propelled the Evolution of the Employee Scheduling Excel Spreadsheet

    It wasn’t all that long ago that campus rec facilities managers embraced the use of the Excel spreadsheet to inject some element of control into the process of scheduling employees.
    SubItUp update
    9 min read | June 22, 2016

    Now You Can Become a Shift Planning Ninja

    Are you ready to take your employee scheduling up a notch with NEW features from SubItUp? SubItUp is at it again - introducing new features and updates to its employee scheduling software designed...
    how to manage
    4 min read | December 7, 2015

    How to Survive Shift Planning this Holiday Season and Throughout the New Year

    “Tis the season,” whimpers many a manager while sipping cocoa and contemplating the 10 different requests for schedule changes this week. It’s enough to turn any manager into the Grinch. Now that...
    how to manage
    7 min read | November 16, 2015

    The Secret to Hiring and Retaining Part-Time Employees

    In October 2015 there were over 20 million people in the US that worked part-time for non-economic reasons.1 With the cost of recruitment, training and reduced productivity while a new employee...
    Updates
    1 min read | August 25, 2015

    Calendar Screen Updates

    Calendar Screen Functionality Hello Everyone! We are at it again. We will be launching an update tomorrow morning that will make viewing and editing your schedules a lot easier. All of the calendar...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | February 24, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Historical Data

    What Makes Us Better - Historical Data The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | February 17, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Global Hours Management

    What Makes Us Better - Global Hours Management The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | February 10, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Evolving Engineering

    What Makes Us Better - Evolving Engineering The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over...
    time management
    2 min read | February 3, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Time Clock Management

    What Makes Us Better - Time Clock Management The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | January 27, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Custom API's

    What Makes Us Better - Custom API's The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the next 6...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | January 20, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Payroll Integrations

    What Makes Us Better - Payroll Integrations The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | January 13, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Certification Management

    What Makes Us Better - Certification Management The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why....
    Why We Are Better
    1 min read | January 6, 2015

    What Makes Us Better - Conflict Free Scheduling

    What Makes Us Better - Conflict Free Scheduling The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why....
    social scheduling
    2 min read | December 30, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Social Scheduling

    What Makes Us Better - Social Scheduling The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | December 23, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Flexible Publishing

    What Makes Us Better - Flexible Publishing The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    management communication
    2 min read | December 16, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Specific Communication

    What Makes Us Better - Specific Communication The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | December 9, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Payroll Reporting

    What Makes Us Better - Payroll Reporting The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | December 2, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Shift & Hourly Scheduling

    What Makes Us Better - Shift & Hourly Scheduling The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why....
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | November 25, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Easy HR Management

    What Makes Us Better - Easy HR Management The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    interdepartmental scheduling
    2 min read | November 18, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Interdepartment Scheduling

    What Makes Us Better - Interdepartment Scheduling The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why....
    Why We Are Better
    2 min read | November 11, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Customer Training

    What Makes Us Better - Customer Training The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    Customer Support
    2 min read | November 4, 2014

    What Makes Us Better - Customer Support

    What Makes Us Better - Customer Support The SubItUp Online Scheduling and Management Software is the industry leader for many reasons. This blog series is meant to detail the reasons why. Over the...
    Tips & Tricks
    1 min read | November 3, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - New Employee Login Screen

    Tricks of the Trade Series - New Employee Login Screen SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series...
    management advice
    2 min read | October 28, 2014

    Employee Accountability - Is Video Surveillance Going Too Far?

    I recently read a post on an industry discussion board about employee accountability. This specific post had to do with weekend shifts and making sure employees were doing what was required. A...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | October 27, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Time Clock Threshold Management

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Employee Timeclocks - Threshold Management SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of....
    management advice
    2 min read | October 21, 2014

    Mobile Apps for Your HR Needs

    A recent article in Forbes talked about the disruptive technologies that are entering the HR space. One area worth highlighting is that of mobile applications and their increasing usefullness in...
    management advice
    1 min read | October 15, 2014

    SubItUp Software Update Improves Your Efficiency

    SubItUp is extremely excited to announce a major software update scheduled for mid-November. Today's announcement is meant to inform our customers of all that is to come and to instruct them of all...
    management advice
    2 min read | October 10, 2014

    Employees Want Mobile Scheduling

    Your employees want mobile / online scheduling. Please...enough of the excel spreadsheets!
    management advice
    2 min read | October 7, 2014

    Making Better Use of Your Time

    Ever feel like you are being pulled in 17 different directions? I referenced this challenge in a previous post (Focus, Focus, Focus….Hey Look! A Squirrel!) and I am revisiting it as to give it more...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | October 6, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Employee Timeclocks - Manager Override

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Employee Timeclocks - Manager Override
    management advice
    3 min read | October 3, 2014

    Focus Focus Focus...Hey Look A Squirrel

    There are so many things to do in your day to day work life. Therefore, there are just as many, if not more, places for you to get distracted or misled. So, how does one keep their eyes on the...
    management advice
    1 min read | September 30, 2014

    5 Common and Uncommon Interview Questions

    Have you been on an interview? Have you conducted an interview? No matter which side of the table you are on, there is anxiety involved with what they interview questions will be. I have heard some...
    Tips & Tricks
    3 min read | September 29, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Active vs Inactive Shifts

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Active vs Inactive Shifts SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series...
    management advice
    2 min read | September 23, 2014

    Our 5 Favorite Management Blogs

    Management is such a broad term. There are differently levels of this topic. Good management practices are important from the top down. The CEO and supervisors alike need to understand what makes...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | September 22, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Employee & Shift Statistics

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Employee & Shift Statistics SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series...
    management advice
    2 min read | September 19, 2014

    Making A Plan To Achieve A Goal

    Our CEO has a quote posted on his computer monitor. The quote is, "A goal without a plan is just a dream." We speak about this concept frequently when we evaluate how we are doing as a company. It is...
    management advice
    2 min read | September 16, 2014

    Employee Management - Reviewing Performance

    We have discussed several topics as they pertain to employee management and optimization. None of them, in my opinion, is more important than the employee review. The periodic employee review is...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | September 15, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Employee Training Videos

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Employee Training Videos SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series...
    Campus Recreation
    2 min read | September 12, 2014

    NIRSA - Providing Resources for Collegiate Recreation

    It is no secret that SubItUp was developed from a need within a campus recreation department. Although, we have expanded to service a wide array of industries, we have not forgotten where we came...
    management advice
    3 min read | September 9, 2014

    Getting The Most Out of Your Employees

    Assembling a quality team is an incredibly long and difficult process. It is all about detail from developing a job requisition, all the way through training each of your new hires. Now that you...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | September 8, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Removing & Reassigning Employees

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Removing & Reassigning Employees SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog...
    management advice
    2 min read | September 5, 2014

    Scheduling Student Employees

    Many of our customers are colleges and universities.Therefore, they have to manage student employees as their main source of their labor force. Over the past 7 years, we have made updates to our...
    Spotlight
    1 min read | September 3, 2014

    Good Luck to the Houston Texans Events Staff

    The NFL season is here!! This past off season, the Houston Texans Event Staff started using SubItUp to help with their complex employee managemtn needs. We are thrilled to have them as customers and...
    management advice
    3 min read | September 2, 2014

    Training New Employees

    One of the most challenging things to do is to assimilate new employees into a company culture and workflow. We, at SubItUp, are no different than all of our customers that utilize our product to...
    Tips & Tricks
    3 min read | September 1, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Availability Summaries

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Availability Summaries
    management advice
    2 min read | August 29, 2014

    Too Many Meetings

    A few years back, I looked at my schedule for a typical week. What did I see? Meetings. Not meetings with prospective or existing clients. But meetings with other managers and employees. To say the...
    Spotlight
    1 min read | August 27, 2014

    South Dakota Winery Adds SubItUp - Prairie Berry Winery

    If you visitied SubItUp at the NIRSA conference in Nashville this past May, you may have received a bottle of South Dakota's finest wine. SubItUp was handing out bottles of Prairie Berry Winery's...
    time management
    6 min read | August 26, 2014

    5 Ways for Managers to Self-Manage

    Managers can easily get consumed by a wide variety issues that come up during a regular work day. It is imperative that managers have the ability to multitask. They need to be able to address the...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | August 25, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Duplicating Shifts

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Duplicating Shifts SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series will...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | August 22, 2014

    Attract More Talent. Publicize Online Scheduling.

    Your workforce today looks something like this: 76 million Baby Boomers, 79 million Millennials. As the younger population graduates into today’s work force, along with them come a new set of...
    Spotlight
    1 min read | August 20, 2014

    Stanford Recreation Adds SubItUp to Employee Resources

    Over the summer, SubItUp was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the Recreation Department at Stanford University. "The group of energetic and motivated managers made the the...
    online employee scheduling
    3 min read | August 19, 2014

    So what’s the deal with Online Scheduling?

    A Scheduling Revolution Summarized A simple Google search for “online scheduling” or any variation of those terms, along with the terms scheduler, software, programs etc. will show you a plethora of...
    scheduling solutions
    2 min read | August 18, 2014

    Shift Swap: The Best-Kept Workplace Secret

    It’s buzzed about in the far corners of the break room, whispered through empty aisles during lunchtime. Texted, never talked about: the black market of the workplace.
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | August 14, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Recurring Messages

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Submission #5 SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series will bring...
    online management
    4 min read | August 12, 2014

    The 5 Vague Steps For Project Management

    As with any project there are a series of emotions and actions that need to occur to get it off the ground, allow it to grow and most importantly sustain the growth for the long term. I’ve broken the...
    Spotlight
    1 min read | August 11, 2014

    SubItUp Welcomes the Harlem YMCA!!

    The online employee scheduling software company, SubItUp, is thrilled to welcome the Harlem YMCA to our family of recreation facilities across the country. Harlem joins other YMCA's like the YMCA of...
    Did You Know?
    3 min read | August 8, 2014

    Cover the Summer Events with Volunteer Scheduling

    Organizing summer charity events is steadily making its way to the forefront of event managers’ minds. Making sure there are enough volunteers to cover every post, being one of the priorities. No...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | August 7, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Adding Shift Notes

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Submission #4 SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series will bring...
    Spotlight
    1 min read | August 6, 2014

    ASU - One Campus Initiative Chooses SubItUp

    Arizona State University has been working on a "One Campus" initiative over the last several months in an effort to consolidate services and create uniformity between their various campuses. SubItUp...
    online management
    5 min read | August 5, 2014

    5 Ways for Managers to Self-Manage Stress

    You have one of the most stressful jobs as a manager. You're juggling managing your employees, their schedules, your tasks, reporting to executives, and everything else that comes up on the fly....
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | August 4, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Copy & Paste Schedules

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Submission #3 SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series will bring...
    employee communication
    2 min read | August 1, 2014

    The Online Staff Scheduling Formula

    More Flexibility = Increased Productivity It’s an equation that doesn’t seem to add up, at first glance. But the reasoning is simple: workers who break out of the set-schedule routine – a system...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | July 31, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Manager Notifications

    Tricks of the Trade Series - Submission #2 SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series will bring...
    online scheduling application
    2 min read | July 29, 2014

    The Future Of Online Scheduling

    To some, it’s difficult to think of a software solution as revolutionary or life-changing. But consider Windows, word processing programs, Photoshop, email clients, and the world’s first Internet...
    Tips & Tricks
    2 min read | July 28, 2014

    Online Scheduling Tricks of the Trade - Global Max Hours

    Tricks of the Trade Series SubItUp Online Scheduling is a very robust platform. There is an incredible amount of functions that you may not be aware of. This blog series will bring to the forefront,...
    4 min read | July 23, 2012

    6 Scheduling Tips to Empower Employees

    You're a dedicated manager multitasking at every given moment throughout your day. In addition to supporting customers, you're constantly trying to improve morale. You deserve a couple of tips that...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | June 25, 2012

    Our Cause, Our Mission: A Better Life

    People are stressed. People are overworked. It’s the 21th century, and we can do better. If we have anything to say about it (and trust us; we do), it’s this: the devil is in the details. The little...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | June 15, 2012

    Switch to Online Scheduling. Enjoy 4-Day Vacation. Nice.

    Paper may be quainter, but let’s face it: tradition takes time. Between the hours you spend hammering out dates and times, printing, placing schedules, speaking with employees, processing requests,...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | June 4, 2012

    Online Scheduling Saves 100 Man Hours In Ohio Fire Department

    There’s a lot of talk about “increasing productivity” in various industries across the board, but precious little done to achieve that goal. It’s like a bad first date where neither party can decide...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | May 21, 2012

    Attract More Talent. Publicize Online Scheduling

    Your workforce today looks something like this: 76 million Baby Boomers, 79 million Millennials. As the younger population graduates into today’s work force, along with them come a new set of...
    scheduling solutions
    1 min read | April 18, 2012

    Does Mobile Staff Scheduling Lead to Happier Employees?

    Today, we ask the following question: are employees happier when working at an organization that offers mobile access to online scheduling? The short answer: yes, they are. How much happier? Try 500...
    2 min read | April 17, 2012

    The Results Are In: Online Scheduling Is 35% More Efficient

    In this age of mobile technology, it’s hard to imagine that the majority of businesses and organizations across America still handle scheduling the old-fashioned way—with sheets of paper tacked onto...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | February 2, 2012

    Online Employee Scheduling 2.0

    In case you haven’t glanced outside your window in a while, we’ve got news: it’s 2012. While these modern times haven’t let us jump around willy-nilly on silver moonboots or speed along on hover...
    social scheduling
    1 min read | January 31, 2012

    Musing on Amusement Park Employee Scheduling

    Behind the swoosh of every high-speed roller coaster and tuft of cotton candy, there’s a grittier, more mundane reality: staffing. Amusement parks require more than popcorn to keeping the lines...
    employee scheduler
    1 min read | January 30, 2012

    Scheduling Online: A World Wide Scheduling Solution.

    Europe. A vast land of rich history, fine cheeses, and workers hailing from 50 separate countries. Ignoring their current tumultuous economic environment for a moment, we’d like to hone in on our...
    online employee scheduling
    2 min read | January 17, 2012

    A Smarter Scheduling Strategy: Online Scheduling Templates

    In an ideal world, shifts would flow one after the other like so many grains of sand in the greathourglass of employment and full coverage would be a foregone conclusion. Alas, your employee base is...
    online scheduling application
    2 min read | December 29, 2011

    Shift Swaps: The Best-Kept Workplace Secret

    It’s buzzed about in the far corners of the break room, whispered through empty aisles during lunchtime. Texted, never talked about: the black market of the workplace.
    subitup scheduling
    1 min read | December 22, 2011

    Online Scheduling Feature: Employee Requests for Time Off

    SubItUp employees, did you know that your online schedule allows you to see the status of your Request Time Off (RTO) after hiding the status at the top of the screen? Employees! When you Request...
    subitup scheduling
    4 min read | October 2, 2011

    Facebook Integration Updates ("The Trials of Developing in Facebook")

    What's Up? Earlier this week we launched several updates to our Facebook application and updated the way people can link their accounts with Facebook through the site. Among these updates we switched...