Ensure Labor Costs Are on Track and on Budget
Don’t let your goal of creating cost-effective work schedules fall into the world of wishful thinking. Workforce scheduling software provides the real-time workforce insights you need to optimize work schedules and control labor costs.
- Improve operational efficiencies and control labor costs with employee scheduling automation configured to site-specific rules and workflows.
- Increase workforce flexibility to improve the cost-effectiveness of full-time and flexible workers.
- Create accurate schedules and prevent under- and over-staffing with labor forecasts based on projected production demand and historical labor usage.
- Reduce administrative costs and managers’ back-office time associated with time-consuming manual scheduling processes.
Why Is Labor Cost Management So Challenging?
Labor costs are unpredictable due to fluctuating labor demand
Limited visibility into overtime
Over and understaffing due to inaccurate planning
Assignment errors due to inefficient manual processes
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How Shiftboard Helps with Labor Cost Management
With Shiftboard, you can continually create and update work schedules optimized to your specific needs, day by day or hour by hour. Use real-time workforce data and agile functionality to respond safely and cost-effectively to operational changes such as sudden spikes in demand, or unexpected worker callouts.
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Gain Real-time Data Insights
Gain a better understanding of the relationship between work schedules and productivity by seeing which business units incur the most overtime — including when it occurs. Count on real-time data reporting to make informed decisions that reduce costs, increase employee satisfaction, and improve safety.
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Manage Overtime Intelligently
Maximize utilization of your entire workforce before incurring overtime or staffing agency expenses. With Shiftboard’s robust optimization capabilities, managers can identify strategic scheduling opportunities such as shuffling on-site workers to areas of need or splitting shifts to maximize coverage with existing staff.
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Forecast Labor Demand
Analyze historical demand and translate that data into labor forecasting to create more accurate schedules. Through Shiftboard’s scenario analysis, organizations can predict labor needs to avoid under- and over-scheduling their workforce.
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Leverage Your Workforce Efficiently
Shiftboard’s highly configurable software and self-serve tools make it easy to assign or post open shifts to eligible employees — including part-time and contingent workers — so you can leverage your entire workforce before turning to expensive overtime options.
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Report on Planned vs. Actual Hours
Shiftboard helps you continually improve your scheduling practices by providing visibility into rich scheduling data, including a seamless interface to compare actual and planned hours by job and location.
Shiftboard is a lifesaver. It has saved our company thousands in overtime.
Maureen Ross, Director of Administration, BAMSI
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