Staff Scheduling Problems and Solutions
Irrespective of the industry you work in or the number of staff in your company, staff scheduling can be cumbersome for managers. Often, in the helpless aim to keep employees and clients happy, managers can be seen virtually buried under spreadsheets, calendars and employee leave requests.
Creating a schedule that ensures all requirements are met can take weeks! Despite this effort, staff managers still have to brace themselves for last-minute leaves and client-based changes that might force them back to their excel sheets to work on a new schedule yet again!
Does staff scheduling really need to be this complicated? With Synel’s workforce management and time and attendance software, most definitely not!
Synel offers a comprehensive solution which allows organisations to manage even the most complex scheduling, for dynamic work.
With Synel, you will be able to generate digital schedules which take into account individual staff requirements and map resources directly to projects. Essentially, our biometric solutions reduces the burden on staff managers by automating a time-consuming and difficult task.
To increase flexibility and ensure that you don’t compromise on client requirements, consider investing in a powerful workforce management software like Synel.
Here a few key areas in which Synel can help you…
Being employee-friendly
If your organisation requires employees to work in shifts, you can safely assume that the work of your staff manager has reached level: unmanageable! Give your employees the freedom to choose their shifts can help you come across as an employee-first company. However, as an organisation, it is important to strike the right balance between being employee-friendly and never missing out on deliverables as a result of resource shortage. Synel allows your employees to give you their shift preferences, while equipping your staff manager to dynamically map available resources to various projects.
Managing employee availability
Synel makes it easy for organisations to on-board temporary employees during holiday seasons during which there are higher reported instances of employee shortage. It also helps organisations map additional employees to new projects during the busiest time of the year.
Governing rotational shifts
Most compliance laws require a 12-hour gap between shifts, for each employee. Synel helps you stay within the rules while managing your workforce efficiently. It also takes into account last-minute cancellations and overtime to ensure that you have sufficient employees to generate the necessary throughput. If your employees work on an incentive-based payment, Synel also maps resources in an unbiased manner to projects and ensures that every one of your employees is given equal opportunity. This way, your organisation is protected through high-demand phases as well as employee-shortage phases. You’re also protected from accusations of bias or favouritism.
Coping with uninformed leaves
While most employees try their best to inform their managers of absences, even the best will sometimes have to attend to emergency situations without prior notice. In such situations, it might be hard for staff managers to get someone else to cover for the absentee. Manually looking for replacements, therefore, can be challenging. With Synel, it becomes a breeze to manage last-minute cancellations, without crossing any compliance boundaries.
Almost every area of a business has been automated in the quest to cut down on costs and manual work. One exception to that was workforce management, but with Synel, scheduling and resource management have become effortless too. Say goodbye to spreadsheets and embrace the easy life with Synel workforce management!
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