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    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...