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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TimeForge will automatically notify your employees of any changes made to the schedule after it is posted … you no longer need to repost the schedule for the changes to take effect! Make schedule changes quickly, and rest assured that your employees will be notified of any last minute changes to the schedule.
How long [...]

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TimeForge templates allow you and your managers to create reusable schedule patterns for daily usage, and you can have an unlimited number of templates in your account. The management team at your business can create company-wide standards for staffing specific days of the week, holidays, or any other day by using TimeForge’s template capabilities.
Templates [...]

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The TimeForge AutoScheduler™ uses a complex system to decide when to schedule employees in the best manner for both you and your staff. It now does a better job of trying to get all employees onto a schedule in a fair manner.
More specifically: the TimeForge AutoScheduler™ system tries to reduce large differences in hours [...]

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The restaurant, retail, and service industries are plagued by fluctuating labor costs, minimum wage rules, and complex overtime regulations. Although overtime and minimum wage regulations affect each state and country in different ways, several areas stand out with complicated overtime rules (such as California and New York labor laws, or many European countries).
TimeForge now understands [...]

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The TimeForge charting and graphing system received a minor upgrade, and now works reliably in many different web browsers. Several other minor bugs surrounding the graphing system have been updated and fixed.
View labor schedules graphically from almost anywhere!
How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than [...]

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There are many techniques for scheduling employees, and we realize that each organization schedules labor differently. Within TimeForge, managers are able to restrict employee schedules based on minimum and maximum weekly hours (such as: “Alex should be scheduled for more than 20 hours but less than 30 hours a week”) and minimum and maximum daily [...]

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Do you need to schedule labor at multiple locations or units? Does your labor force work at more than one location? TimeForge can import employees from other locations - migrating their positions, payrates, and skill levels when they are imported to the new location.
No more double entry!
How long does it take to make [...]

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The TimeForge v1.9.2 scheduling system includes a number of new improvements to the scheduling and template systems, including multiple views of the schedule.
Three new views are available to help you (and your management team) build the schedule: Weekly Detail View, Weekly Summary View, and Daily View. The “Daily View” has several visualization options [...]

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The team behind the TimeForge employee scheduling software has been quiet over the last month, hard at work on version 1.9.2 of TimeForge. After four weeks of work, and countless requests from our users (thank you!), we are proud to announce the latest release of the simplest employee scheduling program available for retail and [...]

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