In any industry where the workforce is the largest resource, it’s essential to take the measures necessary for effective workforce time and attendance management. Workforce and shift scheduling forms the foundation for time and attendance tracking and smooth day-to-day business operations. If your company relies on labour for continued production and revenue generation, it’s essential to understand the principles of workforce scheduling optimization.
Our integrated workforce scheduling and management tool has proven essential for production management and worker time and attendance management which in turn improves revenue generation, cuts down on time loss and improves profit margins. The process requires managers to scrutinize, plan, and optimize shift scheduling in our time and attendance software for effective production management.
This article aims to explain the concept of workforce and shift scheduling. We will look at the benefits of workforce scheduling and how our time and attendance software can deliver these benefits.
What is workforce scheduling?
Workforce scheduling is the pragmatic shift scheduling of hourly workers according to the current demands of the workplace while also keeping future demand forecasts into account. Effective workforce scheduling involves maintaining schedules that make the transition from one shift to another seamless and ensures no interruption in productivity. It is also essential to schedule enough workers to a shift so that production continues uninterrupted.
For optimal workforce scheduling, several factors need to be considered. As an example, if you’re scheduling for a retail business, you have to consider the hours during which the retail stores are busiest e.g. Saturdays. Every industry has its unique workforce scheduling requirements. That being said, some common factors, too, include employee skills, productivity, and availability. All this can be effectively managed in our time and attendance software.
How does workforce scheduling benefit your business?
With workforce scheduling optimization, there are some valuable benefits for your business. Any business can optimize its operations, maximize resources, create a balanced and positive workplace environment, and enhance profit generation through a workforce scheduling system.
Here are some of the benefits of workforce scheduling.
1. Increases productivity
2. Cost control
3. Lower worker turnover
4. Reduce unnecessary overtime
5. Monitor short time
6. By combining access control, limit access to site to scheduled workers only
How can our time and attendance software help?
Our time and attendance software includes advanced workforce scheduling. Our Software is intelligent enough to integrate with Biometric readers e.g. Fingerprint and Facial recognition technology to automate your operational processes for workforce scheduling optimization.
1. Easy time tracking
Our time and attendance with scheduling software can help you accurately track the number of work hours for workers. It puts you in a better position to make decisions regarding overtime, short time and quickly identify situations that can result in understaffing or overstaffing. It also plays a critical role in complying with labour laws regarding overtime.
2. Shift management flexibility
With our time and attendance software shift managers have access to their workers schedules. It puts them in a better position to manage shift changes or leave in case the need arises. This flexibility lowers the chance of unexpected absenteeism.
3. Limit access to your site only for workers scheduled to work
Our time and attendance with scheduling software can be integrated with access control biometric readers e.g. fingerprint or facial recognition. This offers the ability to only allow workers onto site that are scheduled to work. Workers not scheduled on a shift will be denied access until their shift time starts.
4. Customizable and Automated reports
Our time and attendance software eliminates the requirement for workforce managers to spend hours preparing shift schedules or reports on a spreadsheet. Automated and customizable reports save valuable HR hours and help calculate essential metrics such as absences per quarter, shift swaps by a particular employee, the pattern of increased workload, etc.
Biometric Time Solutions for effective and complete workforce scheduling
Biometric Time Solutions offers a comprehensive time and attendance and shift scheduling software solution. Combining access control hardware like fingerprint or facial recognition biometrics, turnstiles etc. means you can manage time and attendance and access control straight from our shift scheduling tool.
Biometric Time Solutions also allows job mapping functionality that allows workers to map their job at hand with the time allocated for the job. Managers can use our reporting to verify project progress and evaluate productivity using real-time metrics such as time and attendance.
Biometric Time Solutions gives complete control to managers to record, identify, and mitigate workforce scheduling issues. Contact us today for a free consultation and demo.
