Welcome to the TimeForge website! It looks like this is your first time visiting the TimeForge blog, and we want to make sure your experience here is as wonderful as possible. In these pages you will find labor scheduling success stories, press releases about new TimeForge releases, articles and white papers describing the [...]

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Leaving for home early today? You could be if you schedule employees with TimeForge.
With TimeForge’s AutoScheduler, you no longer waste hours checking that every shift has the right employee scheduled. The AutoScheduler understands the many different rules such as minimum and maximum hours for employees, skill levels of employees, whether or not employees [...]

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Nation’s Restaurant News recently posted a blog worth at least $20 in immediate lost sales, and perhaps several hundred in lost future sales. The picture is reposted here for reference:
We have no idea what occurred to keep the employee away from their customers for 30 minutes. However, based on our experience one of [...]

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Choosing a simple and easy-to-use labor scheduling program takes time. Someone with buying authority and an operations background in your organization must:

Research the available programs
Contact each vendor
Track down customer references (customer testimonials are available on our website)
Narrow the list of vendors
Evaluate each program (every TimeForge.com user receives a free trial)
Purchase or finance the software [...]

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As announced last week, the next version of TimeForge will include a brand new graphical availability and request tool. We expect to release the tool with version 1.9, after Thanksgiving, and like all of our updates, it will be available to all of our customers at no additional charge.
With the new tool, managers can [...]

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As you may be aware, we release improvements to the TimeForge employee scheduling software every few weeks, and our team is hard at work developing version 1.9 of TimeForge. The next version will be released around Thanksgiving.
What can you expect to be in our next version of TimeForge?

Improved Availability. You will be able [...]

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Our team is proud to announce the latest version of simple employee scheduling … TimeForge version 1.8.6! This version includes a number of minor bug-fixes, as well as some major new features – all designed to save you time!
Some of the new features include:

Split Shifts. TimeForge’s AutoScheduler will try to not assign employees [...]

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Our team is proud to announce the latest version of simple employee scheduling … TimeForge version 1.8.6! This version includes a number of minor bug-fixes, as well as some major new features – all designed to save you time!
Some of the new features include:

Employee Messaging. Managers and supervisors can send messages to employees [...]

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As we discussed before, RunningRestaurants.com recently featured TimeForge.com in their People & Staffing section. However, RunningRestaurants.com is a member-only site and is brought to you by the minds behind RestaurantReport.com and Sante … so you know it’s worthwhile!
However, because the article is part of a member-only website, it will only be removed from the [...]

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Nation’s Restaurant News published an article entitled “Supercharged Scheduling” on Oct 8, 2007. If, like us, you receive the e-mail newsletter, you probably received the story in a “Tech Trends from NRN-Online” email last week.
The teaser introduction starts: “Why does one restaurant hum along, making schedules with little more than pencil and paper or [...]

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