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 diverse, busy, and has a life outside the office walls. The idea of a “template” to define their working hours seems counter-intuitive. But though your staffing needs may be unique, it is important to have a starting point: a comprehensive template to use and reuse for individual employees and your organization as a whole
While employers have long used traditional “paper” schedules to get the deed done, online and electronic schedule templates are making life better and brighter for those in charge of business coverage. Here are 3 enticing tidbits about online templates—and the ways they can make your scheduling duties easier.
Auto-population of shifts: Planning coverage at the start of the work week is an event many have learned to dread. It doesn’t have to be! Instead of realms of paper, online scheduling can do the heavy lifting for you—automatically filling in many slots based on employee availability, maximum hours, and requested time off.
Auto-conflict resolution: Once upon a time, it took constant vigilance and a comparison between employee sheets to ensure complete coverage and an elimination of double scheduling. Online schedules generators can eliminate accidently double-booking employees – eliminating double-booking alone is worth the price for these online scheduling solutions.
Dynamic request tracking: One of the most powerful advantages of online templates? Allowing modification on the fly. If one of your employees needs time off, they put in their request via your online portal—where the system will then track it. All you’ll need to do is approve or deny the request.
Have you worked with online templates before? Would you recommend it over paper? Let us know in the comments below.
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