Shift Scheduling Software

Shift scheduling is the act of organizing your team so that all of your employees know when they work and the responsibilities they need to focus on while on the job.

Shift scheduling software is a suite of tools that can help make that job easier. These tools can even help you:

• Keep track of employee vacation time
• Incorporate labor cost and budget restrictions into the planning process
• Minimize overtime
• Track holiday PTO
• Manage shift overlap
• Find time for on-the-job training
• Avoid overstaffing and understaffing
• Get control of turnover rates
• Take advantage of automation at all stages of the process

With these and other features, you’ll be better positioned to create schedules that will keep operations running at an ideal pace and help maintain high employee morale over the long term.

Shift scheduling software can help you:

• Reduce the time it takes to organize your team
• Improve and control employee access to essential information
• Minimize or eliminate errors in scheduling and task assignment
• Save money
• Grow your business
• Maximize data security
• Improve team and employee productivity
• Implement automation into the workforce management process
• Maintain work-life balance
• Manage compliance
• Build transparency

Try Sling for free to unlock your team’s potential and experience for yourself all the benefits it has to offer.

Shift scheduling can take place in any job — even the standard 9-to-5 work hours could be considered a shift — but certain industries require more complicated, round-the-clock organizational plans.

Here are some of the most common careers that incorporate shift work:

• Call center representative
• Customer service representative
• Server
• Food runner
• Manager
• Housekeeping
• Cook
• Bartender
• Restaurant staff
• Stock clerk
• Cashier
• EMT
• Firefighter
• Police officer
• Security guard
• Nurse
• Doctor
• Bus driver
• Factory worker
• Warehouse worker

Read more about industries that use shift scheduling software here.

Sling is a full-featured shift scheduling app that can help you complete your workforce organization activities in minutes rather than hours.

With Sling’s powerful suite of tools, you can:

• Manage time off
• Coordinate availability
• Organize shift trade requests
• Stay on (or under) budget
• Reduce absenteeism
• Minimize late arrivals
• Allow your employees to sign up for available shifts
• Consolidate and streamline internal communication
• Control labor costs
• Simplify time tracking and payroll
• And much, much more…

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