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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!

Six Management Tips from RSPA

marketing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:30:37 +0000

We were recently at the RSPA Retail Now trade show, in Orlando, FL. It was a great show, and we got to sit down with some of our solution provider’s to talk about TimeForge, and how TimeForge was affecting all of our customers. Our dealers include POS providers and manufacturers for restaurants, grocery stores, payroll providers, general retail, and many others.

We had a great time, and got to share some of our experience implementing TimeForge for our customers (and also the experiences of our dealers implementing the software). Some of these key insights included:

Communication amongst personnel is essential to a exceptional schedule. Shift swaps, requests for days off, staffing minimums, changes in availability, and upcoming business requirements (private parties, birthdays, etc…) will require more from the personnel than any one manager will estimate. Communication is crucial to certify a peaceful workday.

Confirm that employees have any required certifications, and that the certifications are up-to-date. A staff member working without the correct certifications can mean thousands of dollars worth of fines by numerous policing authorities, and can land the manager that was on-duty in jail in some locales.

Reusing a schedule from the preceding week is a swift way to build a schedule for the forthcoming week. But this procedure of labor schedule creation assumes that the prior schedule was satisfactory. How do you figure? Use a variety of metrics to decide if the schedule was a good fit for your business – actual vs. theoretical, the number of changed shifts, were staff members content, how many no-shows transpired, was the confirmed payroll within an sufficient range of the actual sales (or customer throughput)?

Cross training is an wonderful management method to certify that when the unpredictable occurs, your business is ready. Workers who have been cross trained are capable of carrying out multiple tasks. When employees neglect to show up to work, or an emergency arises at the establishment, the personnel are equipped to take care of the situation.

Early clockins and late clockouts can greatly diminish the profits from your business. Every staff member that clocks in early, or clocks out late is using up valuable profits that could be used for fund expansion, bestowing raises, and paying bills. Keep an eye out for workers who ride the clock by supervising the employee schedules, and contrasting clock in and out times to scheduled work times.

Management spends hours toying with and putting together the labor schedule every week. Keep personnel satisfied and use TimeForge to build the labor schedules. Staff members stay content because they know what the plan is, and managers are satisfied because they can put together an employee schedule in mere seconds.

TimeForge scheduling software is used by owners and operators of restaurants, retail stores, bars, grills, grocery stores, and other service-oriented businesses to increase profits, reduce turnover, and improve retention.

Give our labor management software a test drive for free! Sign up for your free trial today!

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!

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.

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.

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 dance studio profits by 3-5%.

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!

Carlee’s Message to Employers of Gen Y

marketing — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:30:51 +0000

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.

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

Labor Management for Churches and Religious Institutions

marketing — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:57:17 +0000

Most religious institutions operate with awkward schedules. Rarely are your staff and volunteers only available from 9-5. That’s one of the reasons scheduling for a religious institution can be so complicated. Not only do you need to juggle staff and volunteers, but each member of your labor force also has his or her own skill set, availability, and preferences. You need to coordinate all of your volunteers and staff (most of which are probably part-time) to cover multiple events on different days of the week at different times. Somehow throwing together a streamlined and optimized labor schedule just doesn’t always seem to work out. However, an error-free, easy-to-communicate schedule is vital to any religious institution that wants to keep staff on hand.

Maintaining your staff’s satisfaction during a difficult economy can be extremely hard, and failures in communication can be the difference between having volunteers and not having volunteers. The most common complaint volunteers have, besides lack of appreciation, is arriving to volunteer only to find that there is nothing prepared for them to do.

Scheduling inefficiencies can also lead to minor but upsetting problems, like a rehearsal with no sound operator, youth programs without enough leaders because of schedule confusion, or study groups arriving to find doors locked. These events frustrate members, volunteers, and staff alike, and are completely avoidable and unnecessary. However, scheduling efficiently can be such a hassle. Well, TimeForge can reduce your scheduling from hours to minutes, and make the entire process pain-free without compromising efficiency.

TimeForge is easy to use. You won’t be left high and dry (and unable to schedule) if the tech-savvy volunteer moves away.

TimeForge is adaptable. When a staff member takes time off or a volunteer is ill or wants to take a break, you can easily redo the schedule and find people to fill in. If two people work spectacularly well together (or are best kept separate) you can easily do that, too.

Our software enables you to optimize the process without losing the human touch. It helps you track vacations, shift swap requests, and preferences so that you create schedules (in seconds) that make everyone happy. You can even test “what-if” scenarios to see how different staff and volunteer combinations work, without losing your original schedule.

With TimeForge, your staff/volunteers are automatically notified about the schedule through email, text message, or social networking account (like Facebook). TimeForge enables staff and volunteers to access their very own TimeForge account 24/7 securely from their home (or anywhere with internet or cell phone access) to view their schedule, review their attendance, request time off, change their work availability, swap shifts with other staff members or volunteers, and change their notification preferences. For example, TimeForge can send them daily schedule alerts via email or text message.

TimeForge can save you hours of tedious, complicated schedule building every week-time that can be used to further your organization’s mission. If you are still not convinced, read what some TimeForge users are saying, or sign up for a free 10-day trial today to discover for yourself how much easier building schedules can be.

Labor Management for Golf Courses

marketing — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:32:34 +0000

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.

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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