Benefits

• Reduces the amount of time and effort required to produce schedules
• Reduces time required to locate candidates to fill open shifts
• Improves communication between scheduling staff and field staff through paging and email
• Reduces time required to determine where staff are within their rotation
• Saves person-hours that can be re-allocated to other important tasks
• Optimizes schedule staffing by permitting only available qualified staff to be scheduled
• Increases the level of control and flexibility over scheduling
• Prevents labor contract violations and potential grievances
• Improves staff morale by instituting fair and consistent scheduling practices
• Provides management with accurate and customized information regarding scheduling, staff qualifications and availability, software security, scheduling exceptions or violations, and schedules
• Saves costs by prevention of rule violations by staff accepting shifts that would break contract rules
• Eliminates the possibility of double-bookings occurring as staff cannot be double scheduled
• Stream-lines the submission, tracking and use of staff availability
• Eliminate scheduling errors through tracking of employee skills and certifications