Labor Management. NOW Simple.

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

1. 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!
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

5. 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!

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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!

Read more about TimeForge Scheduling, TimeForge Attendance, and TimeForge Daily Log.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Staffing costs are usually the largest expenses associated with running a childcare center. It   makes good financial sense that a daycare center director needs to have a solid grasp on how the staff is scheduled, yet employee scheduling often gets short shrift.

It’s easy to see why scheduling gets the back seat. Employee scheduling can be tedious and time-consuming. You have to juggle your employees’ specific availabilities, skill levels, accrued PTO, time off or shift swap requests, meal breaks, shift overlaps to relay information, planning or training breaks, and your busiest times. Then, you have to communicate the schedule to all of your employees, redo it in the event of an unexpected illness or time-off request, find someone to fill in for the absent employee, and communicate the changes to all the employees again! Who has time to also monitor attendance,   forecast labor costs (or keep an eye on them in real time) and do “what-if” scheduling calculations?

With TimeForge, you have time.

TimeForge can cut the time spent doing routine but tedious tasks, like building a staffing schedule or monitoring attendance from hours to minutes. Literally.

TimeForge gives you the tools you need to painlessly do the vitally important tasks like fine-tuning your schedule and forecasting labor costs.

With TimeForge, you can:

• Build efficient employee schedules for one or more locations – in just 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.

Your staff will love TimeForge. No more missed shifts or staying late to cover for a tardy or missing co-worker. No more scheduling confusion or trying to arrange a shift swap while on duty.

During tough times, center directors need to do even more than avoid turnover and manage day-to-day activities quickly and efficiently. In addition to saving hours on scheduling and attendance monitoring, TimeForge can cut your costs by:

• 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.

In fact, TimeForge can help you increase day care center profits by 3-5%.

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

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We recently hired a new employee, Carlee, who you may speak to on the phone if you call here.   She had this to say about our software, after sitting through a few hours of training:

I have recently been hired as an employee at TimeForge, and I have learned how to use the software. TimeForge is a great scheduling software and it is easy to learn. It keeps all of your employees organized and even specifies what position certain employees are in the company. Many teenagers would like TimeForge because it is so easy to use. TimeForge is practically self explanatory which means employers would not have to spend a lot of time training their employees to use it.

When using TimeForge, employees can easily view their schedule, attendance, and requests. Their employers will enjoy TimeForge because of the easy management of employees. TimeForge is also very beneficial because it notifies employees of when they are working and when their requests to work or not work have been granted or not granted. Employers can easily view their employee’s requests and accept or deny them as necessary and they can also make comments about their employee’s habits such as if they clocked in and out on time or if they are hard working, which is important when working with young people.

Overall, TimeForge would be beneficial to restaurant and retail companies that hire young people because it is so easy and manageable. When using TimeForge, you can go to one place to do all of the things that are necessary for scheduling employees for your business. TimeForge is a convenient and reliable way to handle all of your scheduling needs.

Did Carlee convince you? Well, if you need just a bit more information before purchasing TimeForge, read what some TimeForge users are saying. We also offer a totally FREE   10-day trial. Go ahead, sign up for your free trial and see what your employees think. Oh, and you’ll like TimeForge too! Once you experience the ease of use and the elimination of missed shifts and mis-communications, you’ll consider how much money you are losing unnecessarily. Yeah, go sign up for your free trial and see what TimeForge can do about those lost profits.

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In a tough economy, a superintendent has even more paperwork than usual, with less time to complete everyday tasks (much less focus on implementing new policies). It’s a complex and competitive field. You need to oversee the turf management, water reduction, pest control, and an irritating influx of Canada Geese. Then, you concern yourself with maintenance, management of finances, relations with customers, hiring and training employees, marketing your course, and balancing maximum cost reduction without reducing quality.

You simply don’t have any time to spare! Though you need several extra hours every week for building and modifying the employee schedule and monitoring attendance, spending unnecessary time in the office is the last thing you want! However, an efficient schedule may be the first thing you need.

Scheduling employees for a golf course can be a headache. After juggling several employees with a wide range of skill sets, varying availabilities, part-time schedules, accrued PTO’s, and your course’s busy times, just to hash out a moderately coherent employee schedule, you have to find staff with suitable skill levels to accommodate shift swaps or cover for time-off requests, reorganize the schedule to find the best use of staff (without compromising coverage), and test out variations of the schedule without wasting any more time. After finally developing an efficient schedule, you’ll need to monitor attendance to prevent time clock abuses.

When the schedule is completed, you need to notify all the employees, deal with questions about the next week’s schedule (or worse, try to fill a missed shift), and sometimes you’ll need to redo the entire process because of an unexpected shift swap, sick day, or time off request.

It can be such a pain, but it’s excruciatingly vital to your course’s success. If you under-schedule, you’ll lose golfers to poor service experiences. If you over-schedule, you’ll lose profits to overspending on staff.

With recent advances in technology, there are tools that can help streamline this time drain. TimeForge can cut your employee scheduling time from hours to just minutes. Really!

In many ways, other than saving you time spent managing, TimeForge can save you money. Using TimeForge’s AutoSchedulerTM, you can have an entire employee schedule at the click of your computer mouse. The employee schedule generated by the AutoSchedulerTM is automatically optimized for maximum profit and efficiency. With TimeForge’s other features, you can determine the shifts that your cart barn is overstaffed and easily adjust schedules, instantly cutting labor costs. You can quickly and easily 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%.

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.

Read more about TimeForge Scheduling, TimeForge Attendance, and TimeForge Daily Log.

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