Employee Problems? Maybe It's Your Scheduling.
The article explains that poor employee scheduling leads to issues like high turnover, unhappy staff, shift coverage gaps, lack of employee involvement, and hiring difficulties, and promotes Swipeclock’s TimeSimplicity and WorkforceHub software as solutions that improve scheduling flexibility, employee control, and overall workforce management to enhance morale and operational efficiency.
Poor employee scheduling causes problems for your company. Fortunately, you can fix it with TimeSimplicity from Swipeclock. Here are the 5 signs of broken scheduling:
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Employee Turnover
Employee scheduling has a big impact on turnover rates. Lowering your rate of employee attrition provides savings to every department. Allowing employees more control over their schedules may lower your attrition rate significantly.
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Unhappy Employees
Inflexible or unpredictable scheduling can make life miserable for team members. Schedule confusion is also a morale-buster. Business owners who support the work/life balance of their staff members are rewarded with lower turnover and happier employees.
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Shift Coverage Gaps
Short staffing shortchanges employees and customers. TimeSimplicity alerts you to coverage gaps.
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Lack of Employee Involvement
Your staff members don’t have to be passive participants in the scheduling process. Ease the burden on your managers and have employees do their own shift trading. Talk to Swipeclock about the TimeSimplicity virtual shift exchange.
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Hiring Woes
Employees look at more than wage rates. Poor scheduling can be a deal breaker. If you’re known for bad employee scheduling, you will only attract job aspirants who can’t get hired anywhere else. When trying to compete with other employers, you can’t raise wages indefinitely. Better scheduling is a perk that doesn’t cost you more.
Swipeclock employee scheduling software makes employee-friendly scheduling easy.
Swipeclock offers WorkforceHub, the unified Human Resources portal that makes it easy to optimize the performance of your managers, employees, and organization.
WorkforceHub includes TimeWorksPlus, TimeSimplicity, and TimeWorks Mobile. We’ve just added onboarding, benefits enrollment, performance reviews, and employee engagement! WorkforceHub is developed for busy employers like you who need to streamline scheduling, automate time and attendance tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and decrease labor costs.
We can get you up and running with WorkforceHub immediately. Contact us today to request a demo.
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