Sena-Technologies Group

I have been using https://shifton.com/shift-scheduling for almost a year in a retail chain with over 50 employees, and I will say this — the schedule generator work really works well there, but as with any tool, it is important to set it up correctly. In Shifton, you set the parameters: shift duration, number of shifts per day, employee availability, their wishes, and also a ban on certain days or hours. At first, to be honest, we spent about two hours to enter all this correctly, because, well, people — some are studying, some are with children, some ask not to set on Fridays... But then, when we got everything set up, the generator really produces a very balanced schedule, and not in a random order, but taking into account all the entered parameters. At the same time, it adjusts if someone goes on vacation or suddenly falls ill — you can manually adjust it, and the system will recalculate the workload for the rest. Shifton has a very convenient visualization, you can clearly see who has how many hours, whether there is an overload, and whether the standards are violated. Plus, we had a case when an employee complained that he was put on too early - it turned out that the generator put him where no one else could, and we simply forgot to specify that he cannot start before 9. So the main thing is to spend time once and enter everything carefully. And yes, another cool thing: you can plan for a month in advance, and then just make minor adjustments. So I recommend trying it, especially if there are more than 5 people - manually it is already a headache, honestly.