Deputy is out of the blocks faster than any rostering company on the planet. The Deputy app is now available on your Apple watch. Apple say there are around 2 million orders for the Apple watch initially not as popular as iPhone but Apple do not get measured by how many Apple watchers are sold. The iPhone is still the number 1 hardware for Apple. Approximately 300,000 watchers are coming to Australia no doubt there will be some Deputy  rostering users amongst them.

Unlike most electronic devices you can’t just walk into an Apple Store and buy a watch and take it home with you to start playing, you  have to go into the Apple store to get fitted and then the watch is ordered online and delivered to your door.

What are some of the things you can do on your Apple watch with Deputy?

A snapshot of the content you check most often,                                         View and manage your entire team, start
see how many people are at work or running late.                                       and end employees shifts and record breaks easily.

Simply tap Replace to instantly notify recommended                                 The easiest way to start and end your
staff there is an open shift.                                                                                 shifts, record breaks and receive confirmation

Deputy has never been easier to use, is more popular than any other rostering system on the planet and is the most advanced solution for companies today designed to make managing your workforce simple.

Put the management of your business, employees and schedules into the hands of your staff allowing you to get on with the job of building your business.

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I have been involved with award interpretation of time and attendance systems for more than 15 years. In this time I have seen some products that are not capable of completing the award interpretation correctly yet they are sold every day. I have seen these systems where the configurations is taken offshore to lower cost off shore configuration where the award configuration is completed and the people are paid less than $10 per hour while local companies are charging customers thousands of dollars. I have seen companies then come back to charge the customer more money to complete the award interpretation configuration that was never done correctly in the first place.

I have seen low-cost systems and high end systems costing tens of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars all fail with the award interpretation.

Don’t let this situation happen at your company.

While it is okay to outsource many functions overseas including some basic admin functions at MyVirtualWorkforce.com.au‎ or outsource some excel spreadsheet work to www.elance.com.au it is not okay to outsource the award interpretation based on your companies EBA or award.

It is not that you could not train a person to configure awards this process is fairly straightforward once you have all the correct information at hand. The challenge is getting all of the information correct in the first place to give it to a person to complete the configuration.

Customers often ask why do we put so much time into getting the award interpretation configuration correct from the start.

A recent example where during the analysis of the awards prior to the configuration process an overpayment was discovered in the existing manual system that amounted to around two dollars per employee. The clarification of the calculation triggers ended up with company lawyers confirming the correct calculation to be used. With the changes made to the calculation this two dollar per employee error had to be calculated weekly across 500 employees, you do the sums.

Open shifts
Give yourself the power to relax, select open shifts and let the rostering system work for you. Once you set an open shift with a start and finish time the system will do the following for you….

• Automatically send an email to all employees elegible based on the location, department, day, start and finish time taking into consideration leave and existing organised days off
• Keen employees will accept the shift electronically, automatically updating your data base while you are working on another project.
• Job done

Employee availability

Stop worrying about what employees can work and when, stop running spreadsheets spending hours on the phone making sure everyone is ok to work the shifts you allocated…what the rostering system can do for you….

• Let employees advise availability into the future electronically before rosters are even built, employees can access from the free app on their smartphone or login through the web.
• Employee calls in sick, no problem replace them quickly from your mobile phone even when you are not in the office.

Labour Costs V Sales

What retail company today does not want to know the cost of labour V sales. Click to read your report instantly showing cost of labour against sales
Drag and drop functionality

Rostering should be as easy as drag and drop, move employees into the department you need on the day you need with simple drag and drop functionality.  Control C and control V to easily copy and paste one day to the next.

No double ups

How many times have you screwed up the spreadsheet and ended up with to many people on shift, what about the classic, rostering an employee to work in 2 different places at the same time, anyone who has run a spreadsheet for rostering knows about this issue.

No Double ups means you cannot double up an employee into 2 locations at the same time, the system simply will not let you roster one employee into 2 different locations/departments

Employee app

With the take up of smart phones globally you would be crazy to implement traditional employee time clocks. This year I assisted a customer with 55 locations and over 500 staff, they were looking at over $75,000 just to install and configure employee fingerprint time clocks all over Australia with several locations overseas.  The customer never selected the fingerprint hardware costing $75,000 and went with our rostering solution with time and attendance configured for payroll.

A clever employee app included in the software at no additional cost will allow employees not only to sign in and sign out completely removing the cost of hardware to your business the app will also allow employees to advise availability, receive company and individual messages and tasks.

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Rostering has come a long way, the days of spreadsheets and pen and paper should be long gone. Today you can now communicate with your staff electronically giving your employees the power to communicate back electronically saving you the business owner or manager or supervisor hours every week.

What is an open shift?

An open shift allows a manager to offer the shift to any available and appropriately trained employee who works in the location. Creating an open shift will send an invitation via email or SMS to all recommended staff members, offering them the shift. The first employee to accept their invitation will be rostered to the shift, and any attempt by another staff member to accept a shift will be denied. This can be advantageous for a manager looking to rapidly fill a number of shifts, or to fill a particular shift as quickly as possible if an employee calls in sick with no warning.

Introducing Open Shifts/Schedules

Open shifts or schedules allow you the supervisor, manager or business owner to create schedules with start and finish times leaving it up to employees to grab the available schedules. No more chasing people to fill positions.

Once you create the open schedule any employee or casual or contractor that is suitably qualified to take the open shift can claim the shift right from their own smart phone. Perfect for businesses that use a lot of casuals, uni students and the like. Simply create the shifts you want employees to fill and they will be filled.

Employees simply claim the open shifts they want that they are qualified to take as soon as the email arrives

Try staff rosters for free and start working smarter in your business

An organised and calculated roster is one of the most important things for any business to run effectively, no matter how big or small. Whether your staff are casual, part-time or full-time employed, they will appreciate a rostering system where they can monitor their shifts, see start times, advise of availability and more right from their mobile phone. Staff Rosters can provide a simple solution when it comes to organising your staff with online rostering. Easy to use and extremely effective, your business will run smoother with rosters that are easily accessible to all.

Accessible and versatile roster template now available on PC, Laptop, iPad, iPhone, Android

Online rostering has superseded the manual rostering system, due to its accessibility and flexibility of use. Instead of manually writing up rosters and having to continuously correct changes made by requests from staff with spreadsheets that become very complex and constantly out of date, you can take advantage of this easy to use roster template online. In one easy to use system, you can manage your staff availability and annual leave requests, forecast and optimise weekly wages and communicate rosters easily and effectively with all staff with online rostering. Simply by making the roster accessible to every person in your business to check at any time, your staff will never arrive late or not at all, making your business more productive.

Employees love the free app allowing the roster to go directly into their smart phone calendar.

Put in your staff’s hours, pay rates and availabilities and let Staff Roster’s rosters calculate everything else for you.  This online rostering software will ensure your business will run more smoothly and reduce the problems associated with manual rosters.

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