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Shift Scheduling and Coverage

Manual and automated shift scheduling fails to handle availability, time-off, and callouts, causing understaffing and constant rework.

In their words

Just opened a second location and now the restaurant management stuff is getting way more complicated than it was with one location.

r/Entrepreneur on Reddit

Half my crew will not open an app, they just want a text saying "you work tuesday 4 to 10."

r/restaurateur on Reddit

It's so limited that I had to find and pay for a separate time clock service.

r/Dentistry on Reddit

I built a Google/microsoft oauth based calendar web app for my team. Team members can login and update their planned leaves

r/SideProject on Reddit

How to control security as I mentioned above!!!

r/workday on Reddit

Chaque salle a son propre fichier Excel pour les plannings, et je récupère tout par mail en fin de mois pour faire les heures.

r/EntreprendreenFrance on Reddit

I can’t wait to stay until 1.5hrs after close and I know the kitchen is definitely going to enjoy not being able to bust down til closing as well.

r/Serverlife on Reddit

By the time payroll comes around I'm piecing together conversations from texts and trying to remember what happened

r/smallbusiness on Reddit

We have more than 700 picks and it’s about to be 9 PM. Why can’t management hire more closing people

r/OGPBackroom on Reddit

Weder wann Anreise ist, noch wie sie stattfindet, ob es ein Hotel gibt oder was man vor Ort eigentlich genau tut.

r/Veranstaltungstechnik on Reddit

we have less staff to deal with more stock & customers

r/tesco on Reddit

Half the guys show up late, jobs start staggered, and by the time everyone's actually working it's already getting hot.

r/Roofing on Reddit

I also wish if you clicked on an employees name it brought you to a dashboard that has their schedule for the week, all of their time off requests, and availability.

App Store · Homebase: Employee Scheduling

Hourly shift workers and managers

Where they talk

  • r/smallbusiness
  • r/Target
  • r/OGPBackroom
  • r/excel
  • r/starbucksbaristas
  • r/managers
  • r/WalmartEmployees
  • r/restaurant

Tools they use today

  • Excel
  • UKG
  • Workday
  • HotSchedules
  • 7shifts
  • Homebase
  • MyTime
  • WhatsApp

Why those fall short

  • no one assigned daily; manual begging for coverage
  • Schedules outside availability, coverage gaps, managers don't review before posting
  • Checklist does not account for actual staffing or hours
  • scheduler ignores seasonality and sales; allowed hours poorly forecast; cross-store hours not counted
  • UKG schedules shifts under 4 hours; myTime did not