Employee scheduling is a strategic practice of balancing various factors, such as availability, skills, workload, and business needs. Doing it right ensures you have enough staff to handle the workload at any given time, help your staff maintain a good work-life balance, improve customer service, and manage labor costs most effectively.
However, creating work schedules and assigning shifts, tasks, and work hours to your team members is much more than just filling slots on a calendar. You have to juggle multiple variables, such as changing staff availability, last-minute changes, shift variations, etc.
In this guide, we’ll tell about the main employee scheduling challenges and offer doable tips on creating schedules for different industries and adopting technology-driven solutions that simplify the process and automate shift assignments.
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