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Build Superior Staff Schedules

marketing — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:28:45 +0000

Sometimes, the best way to manage the labor is to look at your existing processes and procedures, look at what you’re doing to make schedules, and manage employees, and see if that’s the best possible way to do things. Here are some simple labor management tips for you to build a superior staff schedule. Of course, the best possible solution is to use employee scheduling software for your restaurant or retail business.

Simple Labor Management – 5 Pointers to Build Superior Employee Schedules

Staff members who ride the clock are wasting business profits. Babysit timesheets and schedules to efficiently put an end to early clock ins. Better yet, use a labor management system that will schedule the workforce and monitor attendance- and has the capabilities to implement the schedule- such as TimeForge!
Fingerprint scanners can be fragile bits of technology. Clock in or clock out with them. Do not use them to insert PINs into your Point of Sale system. Restaurant and hospitality personnel typically must enter a PIN/id into a POS system every few minutes to ring up orders, open / close a table, and perform other tasks. With greasy hands, fingerprint scanners become damaged almost immediately – make sure your equipment is up to the task.
Unsure where your labor dollars are going? Review your fixed/non-variable (manager) paychecks and your variable hours (hourly staff). You may be flabbergasted at what you find; many labor dollars are tied up in non-variable staff members.
Take time to analyze the schedule and customer throughput and compare sales to your staffing levels. High ratios can be extremely expensive to your business. A high ratio of labor to sales or customer throughput implies at leas one of three business dilemmas:
1. Workers are spending a bunch of time with one particular customer, and are not sufficiently serving customers who may be waiting (who then disappear).
2. The business is over-staffed, with more workers present than are called for.
3. Income per customer/order is poor, and needs to be brought up.
Act promptly to determine which issue you’re dealing with, and fix it.
Be certain that only one manager per department is in charge of approving requests. Any other way, and there can be bewilderment about time off allotments. If one manager authorizes a time off request for one employee, and second manager authorizes a request for another worker – the possibility of discontented staff, costly turnover, and insufficient staffing is considerably higher than if a single manager is in charge of requests. Exceptional communication is essential to labor management prosperity.

TimeForge is a Best of Breed labor management software, which will streamline your operations to offer the most efficient solution in scheduling, human resource management, attendance tracking, turnover reduction, and communications. Sign up for a free trial today to see what TimeForge can do for you!

Liquor Stores

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:32:42 +0000

There a several small mistakes that liquor store owners and managers might easily make that can have a large impact on the bottom line, including:

lacking a system to get rid of dead stock or slow moving items
excessive buying (carrying too much stock for your sales volume)
careless employee management

TimeForge can’t help you with slow moving inventory, but it can help you get a handle on employee management – saving you hours of scheduling every week and reducing your labor costs.

If you’re like many liquor store managers, you spend hours on employee scheduling and attendance monitoring. You’ve got to juggle employees with varying skill sets and availabilities, manage PTO accrual and time off requests, communicate a frequently changing schedule to employees that are rarely on site at the same time, and field dozens of schedule questions or shift swap requests. You’ve got to stop employees from riding the clock or punching others in.

To be really successful in the liquor retail industry, you also have to balance your employees and your busy times. You need to have the staff in place to handle your customers during busy periods, but to not be overstaffed in slow times, and you need to effectively manage and anticipate labor costs.

It’s complex, it’s time consuming, and frankly, it’s tedious.

TimeForge intelligently automates much of that busy work for you, giving you the time (and the reporting) you need to fine-tune your schedule and forecast your labor costs. With TimeForge you can:

Painlessly create an employee schedule-for one or many locations-in minutes.
Schedule those with the most experience in your high volume time slots.
Notify employees of upcoming schedules and schedule changes by email or text message-reducing missed shifts and disgruntled employees.
Review daily sales information, important things that happened during the day, approve shift swaps, review employee requests for time off, and monitor employees on the clock either on site or remotely, through the TimeForge website, via a Smartphone (such as a Blackberry or iPhone), and even through a Facebook account.
Monitor attendance-either on site or remotely, using the web, a cell phone, or even Facebook.
Easily try out several “what-if” scheduling scenarios (and return to your saved schedule without redoing it.
Stop employees from clocking in before the shift starts or after the shift ends or punching in friends.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Monitor and forecast labor costs-with nearly 3 dozen reports and real-time monitoring.

TimeForge allows liquor store owners and managers to cut scheduling and attendance monitoring time from hours to minutes. It provides not only the time, but the tools you need, to carefully manage your labor costs. In fact, TimeForge can increase liquor store profits by 3-5%.

TimeForge is a complete labor management solution for the liquor industry, providing one-click seamless access to employee scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. Use the whole TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your business requires.

Department Stores

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:31:55 +0000

Department stores are possibly the most complex retail management environments. Even in booming economic times, managing a department store is like juggling cats, but in a recession the pressure to improve department store operational efficiency is intense.

Labor management has never been more important! You are expected to create employee schedules that increase customer service and staff productivity, while simultaneously reducing overtime and unmanned posts. It’s a fine line, and it’s getting finer.

Over-staff and you lose money.

Under-staff and you lose customers.

You’re also expected to monitor attendance to keep a lid on labor costs and nip problems (like buddy punching or riding the time clock) in the bud.

Luckily, TimeForge can help you increase productivity, avoid unnecessary overtime and missed shifts-while taking into consideration the availability, accrued PTO, time off requests, training, and seniority of your employees-as well as the busy times in your store, or any one of the departments. You can monitor attendance, even if you are off-site.

And with TimeForge, you’ll do it all in minutes, not hours.

With TimeForge, you can do the essential, but routine tasks like:

Creating efficient employee schedules for one or more locations-in minutes!
Exporting payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Notifying employees of schedules or schedule changes by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts and reducing turnover.
Recording staff member availability, employee time-off requests, and other key information.
Stopping early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
Remotely checking on employees that are clocked in-using the web, Facebook, or a cell phone.
Providing remote 24/7 access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.

In these times of tight cost-controls, department store managers need to do even more than manage day-to-day activities quickly and efficiently. In addition to saving hours on scheduling and attendance monitoring, with TimeForge you can cut costs by:

Scheduling employees with the strongest skills during your busiest times.
Scheduling employees who are cross trained in multiple departments to work when overall floor coverage is light.
Getting notifications of potential labor shortages automatically.
Monitoring your labor costs-in real time.
Taking advantage of nearly 3 dozen different reports to keep an eye on labor costs and scheduling trends.
Using your existing staff more efficiently in order to avoid layoffs or unnecessary hiring.
Trying out various “what-if” scenarios to visualize staffing or schedule changes-without losing your original schedule.
In fact, TimeForge can help you increase department store profits by 3-5%!

TimeForge is a complete labor management solution for department stores, providing one-click seamless access to employee scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. You can use the whole TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your business requires.

If you’re still not convinced, read what other TimeForge users say about the time and money they’ve saved with this easy to use staff scheduling software… or sign up today for your free trial and experience TimeForge for yourself!

Cell Phone Retailers

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:31:30 +0000

Increasing competition for new customers and a dismal retail economy have cell phone retailers scrambling to find ways to streamline their processes and to rein in costs. The biggest expense (and time drain) for many cell phone retailers is their employees. Hiring and training is just part of it. Consider how much time you spend creating a weekly employee schedule.

If your answer is in “hours”, you are not alone.

Retail employee scheduling is challenging – multiple shifts, part-time employees (each with their own unique scheduling requests), labor laws, and endless inquiries about next week’s schedule (or worse, a missed shift), make retail shift scheduling a real headache.

Babysitting the time clock to ensure your employees aren’t riding the clock or punching each other in isn’t much fun either, but successful managers know that attendance monitoring can go a long way towards cutting and forecasting labor costs.

Over-staffing will drain away your profits.

Under-staffing will drain away your customers.

Deft retail employee scheduling and attendance monitoring isn’t easy. It can be tedious and time consuming.

This is where small changes have a big impact.

TimeForge allows cell phone retail managers to cut employee scheduling and attendance monitoring time from hours to minutes (literally).

In challenging economic times, the ability to manage schedules at one or many locations, schedule those with stronger skills in the high volume time slots, and monitor and forecast your labor costs makes TimeForge not just a time-saver, but a budget-booster. In fact, TimeForge can increase retail profits by 3-5%.

Add in the ability to integrate simply with POS or payroll systems, to notify employees of upcoming schedules and schedule changes by email or text message (and the resultant drop in late or absent employees), and the ability to focus your energies on the urgent duties facing a retail manager on any given day (rather than mind-numbing scheduling minutia), you’ll probably find that the time saved in the first week alone pays for the investment.

With TimeForge, you’ll be able to:

Build employee schedules in minutes-no matter how complex.
Inform employees of schedules or schedule changes by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts.
Remotely check on employees that are clocked in – using the web, Facebook, or a smart phone.
Record staff member availability, employee time off requests, and other key information.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
Provide remote, 24/7 access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
Manage and forecast labor costs and staffing needs to decrease costs and increase profits-by 3-5%!

If you are still not convinced, read what TimeForge users are saying about the software. Or sign up for a free 10-day trial today to discover for yourself how powerful and easy to use this labor management software really is.

Boutiques

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:31:16 +0000

Even before the recession hit, successful boutique owners knew that competition with chain stores required using advertising and purchasing clout for impeccable buying, superior customer service, and careful employee management.

All three of these things are essential and require skill, but most boutique managers will tell you that the most time consuming and tedious of the three is employee management.

Do you spend hours every week in the backroom building complex employee schedules, juggling multiple part-time employees, their skill sets and availability, labor laws, meal breaks, PTO accrued, trying to staff for your store’s busiest times without over-staffing in the quiet times… and then doing it all over again when someone asks for unexpected time off or a shift swap?

Do you dread communicating the schedule (and updates about meetings, trainings, shift changes) to all the employees; monitoring employee attendance (not just scrambling to address the missed shift when someone says they didn’t get the schedule update, but the early clock ins or buddy time clock punching, as well); trying to stay abreast of daily sales or important in-store occurrences; and accurately forecasting future labor needs and costs?

You are not alone.

Deft retail employee scheduling and attendance monitoring is important, but it isn’t easy. Over-staff and you lose money. Under-staff and you lose customers.

TimeForge allows boutique owners and managers to cut employee scheduling and attendance monitoring time from hours to minutes, so you spend your time more productively in the front of the store.

In challenging economic times, TimeForge’s ability to schedule those with stronger skills in the high volume time slots and to monitor and forecast your labor costs can increase retail profits by 3-5%.

Additionally, the ability to notify employees of upcoming schedules and schedule changes by email or text message (reducing late or absent employees), to integrate with POS or payroll systems, and the ability to focus your energies on the urgent duties facing a boutique manager on any given day (rather than mind-numbing scheduling minutia), you’ll probably find that the time saved in the first week alone pays for the investment.

With TimeForge, boutique managers can:

Create complex employee schedules in just a few minutes.
Notify employees of schedules, schedule change, meetings or training by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts.
Stop employees from clocking in before the shift starts or after the shift ends, and from punching in friends.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Review daily sales information, approve shift swaps, review employee requests for time off, and monitor employees on the clock (either on site or remotely), through the TimeForge website, via a Smartphone (such as a Blackberry or iPhone), and even through social networking sites (like your Facebook account).
Monitor labor costs in real-time and accurately forecast future labor needs-and costs.
Increase profits by 3-5%.

If you are still not convinced, read what TimeForge users say about the time and money they’ve saved with this practical labor management software. Or sign up for a free 10-day trial today to discover for yourself how quickly this easy-to-use software will get you out of the back room.

Book Stores

apresley — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:31:02 +0000

Intelligent labor management is vital for bookstores, because your staff is what differentiates you from big box stores or online giants. However, labor costs are also one of the biggest expenses a bookstore faces.

Any retail manager will tell you that employee scheduling is a headache, but in the beleaguered bookselling industry, employee scheduling is particularly challenging. Multiple shifts, part-time employees (each with their own set of scheduling requests), and endless inquiries about next week’s schedule (or worse, a missed shift), all compete for a your attention, along with the strategic issues necessary to keep a bookstore afloat in these troubled economic times.

Deft scheduling and attendance monitoring is tedious and time-consuming, and absolutely essential.

Luckily, TimeForge allows bookstore managers to cut scheduling and attendance monitoring time from hours to minutes. Really!

Your staff will love it. With TimeForge, they can:

Be informed of schedules, meetings, and any updates by text message or email
Review work schedules, view time cards, request time off, change their upcoming availability, swap shifts with other employees, and set up daily schedule alerts via text messaging or email via a 24/7 employee portal.

You will love it. TimeForge reduces turnover and missed shifts.

With Time Forge you can:

Create an employee schedule-not matter how complicated-in minutes (literally).
Schedule your most experienced employees at your busiest times.
Easily try out several “what-if” scheduling scenarios (and return to your saved schedule without redoing it.
Monitor attendance-either on site or remotely, using the web, a cell phone, or even Facebook.
Review daily sales information, important things that happened during the day, approve shift swaps, review employee requests for time off, and monitor employees on the clock either on site or remotely, through the TimeForge website, via a Smartphone (such as a Blackberry or iPhone), and even through a Facebook account.
Stop employees from clocking in before the shift starts or after the shift ends or punching in friends.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Monitor and forecast labor costs-with nearly 3 dozen reports and real-time monitoring.

TimeForge doesn’t just save time, it gives you the tools to easily fine-tune your labor management and save money. In fact, TimeForge can increase bookstore profits by 3-5%.

TimeForge is an essential (and easy-to-use) labor management software for bookstores, but if you are still not convinced, read what TimeForge users are saying here.

Martial Arts Studios

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:29:37 +0000

Managing a martial arts studio is hardly a 9-5 job. You need to stay up on the latest news in Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Kung Fu, Aikido, Kenpo Karate, Tang Soo Do, cardio kickboxing, boxing, or self defense. You need to attract students, retain students, hire and train instructors, schedule classes and private sessions, and deal with all the facilities and financial aspects of owning a business. Additionally, in a recession you have to do it all without wasting a dime.

Saving those dimes can be so time-consuming that you hardly have time to attend to major issues. For example, employee scheduling and attendance monitoring is an essential for your business, but how efficiently does your system run? You know it’s important. It may be the largest expense you have. Reining in over-time and over-scheduling can make the difference between a studio that thrives and one that merely survives.

However, martial arts studio employee scheduling isn’t easy. You have to manage employees with different areas of expertise, varying availability (as well as accrued PTO, time-off or class swap requests) and available hours. You have to consider all these factors (and more) to schedule your employees efficiently, while providing class coverage in times that appeal to your students.

Then, you have to communicate the schedule to all of your employees, field the inevitable schedule questions, and deal with any late class-swap, illness, or time off-requests. You end up making dozens of calls to schedule a replacement or cancel a class, and then communicate the updated schedule to all your employees. Again.

All of your time spent communicating doesn’t include the hours you spend poring over spreadsheets, trying to get a handle on the next session’s or next month’s labor costs, or this week’s overtime, and keeping an eye on the time clock to ensure your employees aren’t riding the clock or buddy-punching.

Scheduling and attendance monitoring for a martial arts business model is complicated, time-consuming, and frankly, tedious. However, you know that it’s excruciatingly important. Over-staffing costs you money. Under-staffing costs you students.

If it takes you hours, you’re not alone. Luckily, those are hours that you can easily free up to attend to the strategies that will help you slide through the recession unscathed (or just to have a weekend off every so often).

TimeForge can cut your employee scheduling and attendance monitoring time from hours to minutes (literally).

Additionally, the ability to manage schedules at one or many locations, schedule those with stronger skills in the high volume time slots, and monitor and forecast your labor costs helps TimeForge increase martial arts studio profits by 3-5%.

Add in the ability to integrate simply payroll systems; to notify employees of upcoming schedules and schedule changes by email or text message (and the resultant drop in late or absent employees); and the ability to focus your energies on the urgent duties facing a martial arts studio owner or manager on any given day, rather than mind-numbing scheduling minutia; and you’ll find that the time saved in the first week of using TimeForge pays for the investment.

With TimeForge, Martial Arts Studio owners and managers can:

Build complex employee schedules-in minutes.
Inform employees of schedules or schedule changes by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts.
Easily schedule your most experienced employees (or those with particular skill sets) at your peak busy times.
Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
Remotely check on employees that are clocked in – using the web, Facebook, or a cell phone.
Provide remote access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
Record staff member availability, employee time off requests, and other key information.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Manage and forecast labor costs to decrease costs and increase profit by 3-5%

TimeForge doesn’t just save time, it gives you the tools to easily fine-tune your labor management and save money. In fact, TimeForge can increase martial arts studio profits by 3-5%.

TimeForge is an essential (and easy-to-use) labor management software for studios, but if you are still not convinced, read what TimeForge users are saying here.

Golf Courses

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:29:15 +0000

Even in prosperous times, golf course superintendents have a lot on their plates. It’s a competitive, complex field. You’ve got turf grass management, pest control, water reduction (perhaps mandated), and an irritating influx of Canada Geese on your mind. Then, there’s maintenance, financial management, customer relations, employee hiring and training, marketing- and in these tough times, cost reduction.

Spending hours every week creating an employee schedule and monitoring attendance is the last thing you want-though a streamlined schedule may be the first thing you need.

Most superintendents agree, scheduling employees for a golf course can be a headache. You’ve got to juggle employees with a wide range of skill sets, varying availabilities, part-time schedules, accrued PTO, time-off and shift swap requests, and your course’s busy times. It’s mind-numbingly tedious work-tracking down staff with the appropriate expertise to accommodate shift swaps or cover for time-off requests, juggling the schedule to find the most efficient use of staff without compromising coverage, and trying to consider alternative schedules without investing too many more hours into the process. Additionally, you may find it necessary to monitor attendance to prevent punch-in abuses or unnecessary overtime.

Once the schedule is done, you’ve still got work to do: communicate the schedule to all the employees, field endless inquiries about next week’s schedule (or worse, scrambling to fill a missed shift due to confusion over schedules), and occasionally you’ll do the entire thing over again to accommodate an unexpected shift swap, illness, or time off request, and then communicate the changes to all the employees-again!

It’s tedious, but it’s important. Under-schedule and you could lose golfers. Over-schedule and you could lose profits.

Luckily, there are tools that can help streamline this time-sink. TimeForge can cut your employee scheduling time from hours to minutes. Really!

TimeForge won’t just save you time, TimeForge can save you money in a myriad of ways. For example, you can quickly determine the periods or times that your cart barn is overstaffed and easily schedule to more closely align with your actual needs, cutting labor costs. You can schedule your most experienced employees during your busiest periods to reduce complaints and backlogs without over-staffing. You can keep an eye on attendance (on-site or remotely) in order to curb time clock abuse and reduce overtime. You can monitor labor costs in real-time, and forecast your future costs and staff requirements. It all adds up: TimeForge can increase course profits by 3-5%.

With TimeForge, you can:

Create employee schedules in minutes-even with multiple locations, employees with varying availability, certification, and skill sets.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Inform employees of schedules or schedule changes by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts.
Approve shift swaps, review employee requests for time off, review important daily occurrences, and monitor employees on the clock either on site or remotely, through the TimeForge website, a Smartphone (such as a Blackberry or iPhone), and even through a Facebook account.
Stop employees from clocking in before the shift starts or after the shift ends or punching in friends to help reduce labor costs.
Record important information from one manager’s shift to another.
Provide remote access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
Manage and forecast labor costs to decrease costs and increase profits.

TimeForge is an essential (and easy-to-use) labor management software for golf courses, but if you are still not convinced, read what TimeForge users are saying here.

Dance Studios

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:28:49 +0000

As a dance studio owner or manager, you have plenty on your plate. Scheduling classes and performances, billing, dealing with students (and their parents), hiring and training, marketing, taxes and financial management- there aren’t enough hours in the day to handle it all with the expertise and attention to detail you would like.

In difficult economic times, you not only have to do it all, you have to do it well. Smart studio managers know that recessions are the best time to streamline processes- both to save money and to give yourself the time to focus on the strategies that will keep your studio afloat (and successful) through trying times.

Staff scheduling is a prime example. Dance studio employee scheduling isn’t easy. You have to manage employees with different areas of expertise, varying availability (as well as accrued PTO, time-off or class swap requests) and available hours. You have to consider all these factors to schedule your employees efficiently, while providing class coverage in times that appeal to your students. This rarely results in an easy 9-5 schedule, but it’s vitally important.

Over-staffing costs you money.

Under-staffing costs you students.

It’s a fine line, and achieving it is time-consuming and tedious. You can easily spend hours in a backroom creating a balanced, fair, and cost-effective schedule, only to have a last minute shift swap, illness, or time-off request make you start all over again. Often, the hours spent on scheduling don’t include the time you spend communicating the schedule (and any updates to it) to the employees, monitoring attendance, or trying to deal with absent or late teachers due to schedule confusion.

Luckily, there is a cost-effective, time-saving solution. TimeForge can cut your employee scheduling and attendance monitoring time from hours to minutes.

Consider the ability to simply integrate payroll systems, notify employees of upcoming schedules and schedule changes automatically by email or text message (and the resultant drop in late or absent employees), and the ability to focus your energies on the urgent duties facing a dance studio owner or manager on any given day (rather than mind-numbing scheduling minutia), you’ll probably find that the time saved during the first week alone pays for the investment of TimeForge.

With TimeForge, you’ll be able to:

Build complex employee schedules in seconds.
Easily schedule your most experienced employees (or those with particular skill sets) at your peak busy times.
Inform employees of schedules or schedule changes by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts.
Record staff member availability, employee time off requests, and other key information.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
Remotely check on employees that are clocked in – using the web, Facebook, or a smart phone.
Provide remote access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
Manage and forecast labor costs to decrease costs and increase profits.
Increase dance studio profits by 3-5%.

TimeForge is an essential (and easy-to-use) labor management software for dance studio managers, but if you’re still not convinced, read what other TimeForge users say about the time and money they’ve saved with this easy to use staff scheduling software… or sign up today for your free trial and experience TimeForge for yourself!

Bowling Centers

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:27:42 +0000

Labor is usually the largest expense associated with running a Bowling Center. In fact, fine-tuning the scheduling of your employees and managing attendance with TimeForge can increase bowling center profits by 3-5%.

But many bowling center proprietors never get around to the labor management tasks that can have a real impact on the bottom line-things like monitoring attendance, forecasting labor costs (and keeping an eye on them in real time) and “what-if” scheduling calculations.

It’s no mystery: the routine, essential tasks like employee scheduling can be tedious and time-consuming, even for smaller, family-owned bowling centers. You have to juggle your employees’ specific availability, accrued PTO, time off or shift swap requests, meal breaks, and league or other busy times. If any of your employees are minors, you need to take special care to ensure compliance with labor regulations.

Then you have to communicate the schedule to all your employees, re-do it in the event of an unexpected illness or time-off requests, find someone to fill in for the absent employee, and communicate the changes-again!-to all the employees.

If it takes hours, you’re not alone.
Who has time to also monitor attendance to nip problems in the bud, forecast labor costs for better budgeting, analyze your schedule for potential under-or over-staffing problems, or calculate “what-if” schedules that could reduce labor costs?
With TimeForge, you have time.

TimeForge can cut the time spent doing necessary but tedious tasks like building an employee schedule or monitoring attendance from hours to minutes… really!

With TimeForge, you can:

Build efficient employee schedules for one or more locations-in minutes.
Export payroll to many popular payroll providers with a single click.
Notify employees of schedules or schedule changes by text message or email-eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts and reducing turnover.
Record staff member availability, employee time-off requests, and other key information.
Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
Remotely check on employees that are clocked in-using the web, Facebook, or a cell phone.
Provide remote 24/7 access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.

TimeForge gives you the tools you need to easily do the tasks that can make the difference between success and failure in these tight economic times. You can do things like:

Scheduling your most experienced employees during your busiest times.
Getting notifications of potential labor shortages automatically.
Monitoring your labor costs-in real time.
Taking advantage of nearly 3 dozen different reports to keep an eye on labor costs and scheduling trends.
Using your existing staff more efficiently in order to avoid layoffs or unnecessary hiring.
Trying out various “what-if” scenarios to visualize staffing or schedule changes-without losing your original schedule.

TimeForge is a complete labor management solution for bowling centers, providing one-click seamless access to employee scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. You can use the whole TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your bowling center requires.

If you’re still not convinced, read what other TimeForge users say about the time and money they’ve saved with this easy-to-use staff scheduling software… or sign up today for your free trial and see for yourself.

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