Labor Management. NOW Simple.

TimeForge emails a rolling daily schedule to every employee in your account. However, emails containing the schedules are emailed to staff members on a daily basis, which may not be fast enough for your company if you want immediate notifications.

To alleviate this problem TimeForge now includes an “Email” link next to each schedule. Clicking on this link sends a message to your staff immediately.

Please note: Staff members must have an email address entered in TimeForge to receive an email message.

Of course, you can send any message to your staff at any time by clicking on the “Messages” section in the “Schedules” tab.

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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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 does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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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 can be “used” on any day of a schedule , instantly creating shifts for employees without the need to create shifts one at a time. TimeForge Templates have always had one limitation , they are only designed to be used for only a 24-hour (one day) time period.

Introducing TimeForge Weekly Templates! Managers specify daily templates for each day of the week, creating a Weekly Template. You can have as many Weekly Templates in your account as you would like!

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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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 between the work force. It does this in an effort to try and follow industry best-practices for scheduling employees, and will do what it can to ensure that both staff and management are happy with the schedule.

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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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 many of these complex rules, and makes sure to schedule employees in a manner that minimizes overtime when using our AutoScheduler™ tool. When overtime is likely to occur, you and your management team will receive a warnings while making the schedule, and again before you post your schedule. Additionally, TimeForge calculates overtime for all employee shift swaps, and warns your team if the exchange will create overtime for the employee picking up the shift.

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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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.

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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 shifts (such as: “Sarah should not be scheduled for doubles“).

The TimeForge AutoScheduler™ system will do its very best to make sure your needs are met, and if you schedule employees manually, it will warn you when your employees exceed or drop-below your specified values.

However, users of TimeForge can now limit employees to a minimum and/or maximum number of shifts per week (such as: “Joe should receive between 3 and 4 shifts a week“).

Just one more way we are making labor scheduling easier!

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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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.

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

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We are pleased to announce TimeForge version 1.9 , the easy-to-use employee scheduling program for food-service (restaurant, bar, club), hospitality (hotel, motel), and retail companies.

Thank you to our users who provide priceless feedback about the software can make their lives easier!

This version provides significant enhancements to all TimeForge users, and includes several dozen new and improved features. Some of our time-saving improvements include:

• Many areas of the scheduling system, including the creating schedules from templates, publishing a new schedule, and deleting schedules are significantly faster.

• A new field is available for employees, which allows managers to enter an identifier for tracking the employee (such as an internal employee number).

• Internationalization! TimeForge now works in Canada, the United Kingdom (England), Australia, Ireland, France, Spain, Scottland, and many other countries. The best labor scheduling system from the US is now available to anyone, anywhere. In fact, if you are a multi-location (or multiple unit) operator, with stores in different countries or locales, TimeForge will appropriately manage notifications for the whole team.

• Do you schedule more than one location from within your TimeForge account? The improved scheduling system in version 1.9 will automatically disable employees that are already scheduled to work at other locations. TimeForge already disables employees that are scheduled to work on other conflicting schedules.

• Day parts have been renamed “Work Periods”, which is … simple. More improvements with “Work Periods” and “Day Parts” are coming in Version 2.

• A number of minor bug fixes, improvements to Internet Explorer 6, and other changes.

Of course, we look forward to your ongoing comments about changes to the TimeForge scheduling system.

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your retail business, bar, club, or restaurant.

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What is FindApps.com? FindApps is a comprehensive guide to hosted applications (also known as Application Service Providers or ASPs). They currently list several thousand applications which require no installation, no updates, and no service contracts (like our own labor scheduling program). It’s a resource that every business owner should have saved in their Bookmarks.

What kinds of things are on FindApps.com? Although many of the programs listed on FindApps.com are “generic” in nature and apply to anyone who uses a computer, some of their listed programs apply directly to TimeForge.com employee scheduling users.

Some of the categories that you may be interested in reviewing include:

• Human Resources (employee reviews, background checks, benefits management)
• Utilities (backups and virus scanning)
• Accounting and Finance (payroll and online accounting)

TimeForge is posted in the employee scheduling section of FindApps.com

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, or restaurant.

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