Fairness, equality, employee satisfaction, compliance. You might think you've already put a tick in these boxes with your HR solution and you don't need to worry about them. But that's not quite the case. Let's put this into real employee scenarios...
Megan is a great bartender - so great in fact, her manager has scheduled her to work every Friday and Saturday night for the last 3 months. But even though she likes to go to a gym class on Sunday mornings, she's always too tired to attend because she's worked so late.
Megan is being unfairly allocated unsocial hours that are affecting her personal life.
David is a great worker and he’s keen to learn more about the business and up-skill. But he keeps getting allocated the warehouse shifts, when he really wants to work on his customer service skills out on the shop floor.
David isn’t being given equal opportunities to progress.
Sally needs to finish work at 3pm so she can pick up the kids from school. But she can do extra hours during the holidays to boost her income. This isn’t reflected in her rota - she keeps getting scheduled to work late on school days and she’s scheduled for the same hours during the school holidays. Sally wants her employer to accommodate flexible working.
Sally will leave for an employer who can do this.
Robert is on minimum wage. He works a couple of extra hours one week, to help out when a colleague has to go home sick. He tells his manager he's doing this, but his manager forgets to add the extra hours to his timesheet - and he doesn’t get paid for it.
Robert misses out on wages he’s worked, and his company are breaking minimum wage laws.
Whilst HR software takes care of some processes, a best of breed scheduling solution that integrates into your HR solution will make sure you’re remaining fair, compliant and retaining your workforce. And even though you’re not a big enterprise, we all want to make sure we’re being an employer of choice.
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