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Effective employee and shift scheduling software

Employee scheduling has never been easier. Simply create and edit shifts, then notify your employees with the click of a button in Sage HR. Our shift management software is perfect for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Benefits of employee scheduling software

Explore how you could streamline your staff scheduling with effective shift management software designed for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Easy staff scheduling

Efficient employee scheduling tools allow you to seamlessly plan, edit, and circulate your team's shifts, so you don't waste time planning rotations manually or updating messy spreadsheets.

Plan shifts by group or area

Fluctuating demand and the diversity of employee skillsets can hinder managers when planning shifts for whole teams, eating into their time and potentially distributing workloads inefficiently. 

Shift management software frees up managers' time by automating scheduling, assigning appropriate employees to specific tasks, and simplifying communication or approvals.

Self-service scheduling software for employees

Shift scheduling software enabled for employee self-service gives your team easy access to their schedules as they're published. With the right shift scheduling software, your team can add their own preferred times and flag when they can or can't work.

Staff scheduling app for mobile

You and your team can access shift management software from anywhere, at anytime with a smart, cloud-based solution and user-friendly mobile app. Access with ease whether you're office-based, remote, or on the move.

Employee scheduling software features

Explore the functionality that makes Sage employee scheduling software stand out

Easy-to-use shift scheduler

Our intuitive shift scheduling interface lets you add, edit, move, and copy shifts, simplifying roster coordination.

Flexible employee scheduler template set-up

Save pre-defined shift templates to our employee scheduling software and cut back on even more time when creating repetitive shift patterns.

Shift planning for different groups and areas

Clearly visualize schedules for different groups and areas, with dedicated shift managers for each location.

Staff scheduling data exports and reports

Analyze staffing patterns and track labor costs by exporting data from our staff scheduler in just a few clicks.

Our employee scheduling software solutions

Discover the best staff scheduling software tools for your business. We have HR solutions for small businesses with less than 25 employees, which also come with payroll included, as well as software designed for medium-sized and growing businesses.

Sage HR

Solve your HR challenges. Onboard your employees, automate your HR processes and get meaningful insights.

  • Achieve full visibility of your remote workforce, with an online employee database that’s your single source of truth.
  • Give your employees instant and remote self-service access to everything they need, like company policies, updates, absence to time-off requests, schedules, and more.
  • Enable your people to request time off, check vacation balance and see who’s away, any time, anywhere.
  • Share goals and priorities to unite team efforts while you can’t be in the office. Align with your company vision, and keep track of progress.
  • Easily handle receipts without unnecessary trips to the office. Employees submit expenses simply by photographing the receipt directly from the mobile app.

HjörturAtli Guðmundssonm 
CEO, TourDesk

“It's much faster to check shift availability, move shifts and agree to shift changes all within Sage HR. It has reduced creating the shift schedules every fortnight from six hours to just two.”

Employee scheduling software FAQs

Employee scheduling software is a software application that helps managers plan and keep on top of staff schedules, shifts and working hours.

With flexible templates, automated scheduling functionality and intuitive editing tools, a good staff scheduling solution makes it easy to set up, update, copy and remove or share shift schedules, without having to rely on spreadsheets or other documents.

Some shift management software can also give employees self-service access, track team members' working hours, help manage shift-swaps and export scheduling data and reports.

Cloud-based employee scheduling software can drastically cut down on manual admin work by moving the whole scheduling process online and automating large parts of it.
  
A simple but powerful shift management tool makes it much easier to control changes in shift planning and scheduling. When your whole team can access the solution, they can use it for streamlined communication in real time. This minimizes the risk of conflicts, mistakes, and misunderstandings. Ultimately, this technology could save you a lot of hassle and money lost on staffing errors.

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