Employee Scheduling Software For Easier Predictive Scheduling

Predictive scheduling (a.k.a. predictable scheduling) is a set of practices that protect employees from unfair and extremely inconvenient shift plans.

In many cases, predictive scheduling has made its way into the laws and regulations that govern most businesses so that it may be illegal to adopt unpredictable, just-in-time, and on-call schedules.

To find out how predictive scheduling might affect your business, consult with an attorney familiar with the labor laws for your industry and your geographical area.

Predictive scheduling offers a wide range of advantages that can affect your team and your business for the better, including:

• Improved employee satisfaction
• Improved employee engagement
• Improved customer service
• Improved job performance
• Better physical and mental well-being
• Reduced absenteeism
• Higher attendance
• Fewer no-call, no-show absences

Predictive scheduling can even give your business a hiring advantage over other businesses, help you attract high-performing team members, and increase employee retention over the long term.

The goal of predictive scheduling is to provide a more convenient and fair work plan for your team.

To that end, one of the best ways to make this type of scheduling work better is to get your employees’ input. Find out what hours and shifts work best for each employee so you can create a schedule with the fewest conflicts right from the start.

As you do schedule, be sure to keep business needs in mind so that you always have enough employees to cover all the work but not so many employees that it creates excessive downtime.

Then, throughout it all, do your best to honor employee preferences whenever possible.

There may be times when you can’t accommodate everyone’s wishes but, the more often you do, the more you’ll build goodwill and employee satisfaction.

Sling makes implementing predictive scheduling simple. With the Sling software, you can create even the most complicated team schedules — such as overlapping shifts, rotating shifts, and night shifts — in minutes instead of hours.

In addition, Sling gives you the tools you need to calculate staffing requirements well in advance so you can give your team members plenty of notice about when they’ll work in the coming days, weeks, and months. That’s the very definition of predictive scheduling.

Sling even comes with built-in artificial intelligence that can alert you to overtime issues, double bookings, time-off requests, and other conflicts in the schedule so you can avoid the back and forth of finding and fixing errors before everything goes live (or even after it’s live).

All of that and much more makes Sling the best way to implement predictive scheduling into your business’s workflow.

Right now, you can get started with the essentials to help you organize and optimize your team, handle internal communication, and manage labor costs for free with just one click.