Software That Makes Using Shift Scheduling Templates Simple

Shift scheduling templates reduce the amount of time you spend preparing your shift-planning activities before you get to the actual task of building the team schedule.

With a complete shift scheduling template, you won’t have to worry about margins, spacing, or how it will all print (just to name a few concerns). When it comes time to schedule, simply grab a copy of the template and start filling in names.

Shift scheduling templates also make it easier for you to ensure that the final schedule includes all the information your team needs to understand when, where, and on what they’ll be working every day.

All shift scheduling templates should include the following basic information:

• Day of the week
• Date
• Employee name
• Hours your business is open
• Some way to indicate that an employee is working certain hours (e.g., an X or a bar)
• The job the employee will be performing (if this changes from day to day)
• Business or manager contact information

After that, you can include any other information your employees will need to help them understand the schedule and ensure that they have everything they need to do their job better.

With practice, you’ll be able to build shift scheduling templates that work for you, your team, and your business.

To get started, try incorporating these ideas into your templates:

• Build shifts around your best employees
• Include an availability chart with the finished schedule
• Ensure that your template complies with business strategies
• Minimize large blocks of text
• Color-code information for easy reading
• Use a familiar font
• Honor shift preferences

Sling’s shift scheduling templates give you the power to build and maintain a reusable framework of all the shifts that occur during a workday. That way, all you have to do is assign names to time slots.

With the Sling software, you can create a template to cover even the most complicated team schedules — such as overlapping shifts, rotating shifts, and night shifts — in minutes instead of hours.

Then, when it comes time to build shifts with those templates, Sling allows you to calculate staffing requirements and the cost of each shift as you go so you can create a schedule that works the first time.

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 template 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 use shift scheduling templates to organize employee work hours.

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