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Optimize your workforce with our many scheduling options
The ever-present labor scheduling challenge: having the right amount of staff at the right place at the right time. Our easy-to-use scheduling options let you quickly send out tasks and assignments, and build calendars based on views to track project status, workforce utilization, and past-due assignments. Work schedules can be optimized in minutes based on staff location, skills and availability. We take the labor out of labor scheduling.
How it Works
Get Planning
- Real-time scheduling prevents schedule conflicts. Effectively organize, track, and manage the schedules of stores or employees.
- We've created the most flexible, dynamic, and comprehensive system for real-time scheduling of tasks. Scheduling options allow you to assign tasks or items to be scheduled based on worker skill set, team, role, title, and availability, by location or geographic radius.
- Our system will magically find qualified and available personnel and assign them to your task or project using our automated scheduling tools. Or, use one of our several different options for scheduling.
Multiple Methods
- Natural Insight allows for multiple methods of scheduling the most qualified and available staff, including: (1) hard scheduling by manager, (2) self scheduling by staff, (3) competition (first-come-first-served) scheduling, (4) bulk scheduling via import from spreadsheet, and (5) auto scheduling.
Self Managing
- Give the power to your people. By allowing employees to plan their day and accept tasks and projects, they optimize their time and can plan accordingly for increased staff utilization. Field employees can accept and schedule tasks to manage their own schedules, which helps for better planning and efficiencies, and minimizes overscheduling of tasks.
- Know your true workforce capacity — Allow staff to select date/time for a task or designate a specific date/time window.
Powerful Tools
- Workforce automation at its best: In the same amount of time, assign/schedule a few … or a few thousand … workers. We call that Workforce OPTIMIZATION.
- Our operational business intelligence lets you drill down on staff utilization to know your up-to-the-minute capacity at any level. Spend less time chasing down loose ends and playing email and voicemail 'tag' to get tasks scheduled; spend more time on sales or on the sales floor.
- Do you need more staff or a more efficient workforce? Use our staff utilization report to know what percentage of your staff available hours are being utilized.
Bird's-Eye View
- Easily view and recognize what the scheduling exceptions are and take action. Spend your time proactively handling exceptions instead of sorting through emails to determine what is most important to invest your time on.
- Managers can see what the workload is for each of their stores on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis so they can plan and adjust staff accordingly. Utilization reports provide an insight to staff scheduling and availability.
Got Text?
- Schedules can be viewed by status (accepted, declined, unassigned, completed, past due), date range, task, location, or by person. We're versatile like that.
- If you need last-minute shift coverage, use our text message alert feature to notify workers of an open assignment, and they can respond immediately via text.