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Put managing Rosters or schedules into the hands of your management team

Rostering has never been simpler. Today if you have not got access to your information on a mobile manner then you are using the wrong system.

Mobile access for managers and employees

Deputy’s mobile apps let you see what’s going on at your workplace even when you can’t be there in person. For you, it’s the power to manage your business wherever you are. For your employees, it’s everything they need to stay organised.
Available now for iPhone and Android.

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Managers get everything they need…..employees can do everything they need on or off site.

 

Schedule Clock Approve

 

Managers – no matter where you are so long as you have your mobile phone you will have access to everything you need when rostering and managing your staff.

  • view who is on shift
  • view who is running late for shift
  • replace late staff
  • see who is on leave
  • approve  or decline leave
  • improve communication – send general information to all staff

Employees

  • sign in and sign out
  • apply for leave
  • view your roster
  • advise availability in advance

News Release June 10 2015 from the Deputy development team – Deputy just got better

After six months, 200,000 lines of new code and three months of testing the new version of Deputy is finally here! We have been working day and night to bring this to you, and we’re super excited to launch it June 10 2015.

Try rostering for free

 

No Apps? No problem. Deputy also works on your smartphone’s web browser. Just tap in Deputy.com on your device and you’ll automatically see the mobile version of Deputy.


This is the coolest rostering update ever!! Deputy now works on your Apple watch

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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?

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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.

 

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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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Scheduling employees for recruitment companies

We have received many inquiries over the years from recruitment companies looking for a better way to manage candidates while also helping internal consultants. We know from more than 3000 customers that not every program suits every customer……this rostering / scheduling program is made for recruitment companies.

  • Allow candidates to advise availability electronically in advance making scheduling easier
  • Candidates can sign in on own smart phone (no hardware required) or location based kiosk
  • Build schedules in advance and share with candidates via email or smart device
  • Candidates schedules go directly into their own smart device calendar
  • Create electronic open shifts and let the keenest candidates fill the positions (first in gets the shift)
  • Give your customers visibility/access to the schedule showing live who is in and who is late
  • Consultants can see live who is on site and who is late
  • Less than 15 cents per employee per day

When talking to potential customers from the recruitment industry I get told I don’t understand the pressures of being a consultant and managing candidates 24 by 7 in some instances with no visibility, customers calling me to tell me an employee has not turned up before I even know about it.

The good news here is I worked in this industry for more than 10 years in a previous life, I had the 24 by 7 phone. I remember being up at 11:00pm trying to find replacements for people who called in sick on a rotating 18 week 24 hours a day roster. Finally i would get to bed well after midnight only to then find more people at 4:00am in the morning for the next customer who just had an unexpected container or two arrive a day early throwing out the roster for the day.

Managing people in high pressure situations was always tough, information at our fingertips often comprised a data base of names or a printed spreadsheet of names. We all did the same thing, we all got on the mobile phone and started dialing, I could spend hours some mornings just ringing numbers hoping to find the candidate required to fill the position. Sometimes you got lucky and got a yes from the candidate in the first few calls, other times 20 calls later you were still looking to fill the position.

I remember days where I needed 10 people to fill 10 positions, I could have been on the phone for three hours just getting these positions filled, if you have ever worked in this industry or ever been a customer of a recruitment company supplier I know you will relate.

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Don’t let this be you every day any more

Times have changed, technology has changed now you can do so much more with detailed easy to use systems that not only make your life easier but you can now give access to your customer if you want. Recently I completed a demonstration to a recruitment company in Melbourne online, when I mentioned the idea of sharing information online with the customer they were very nervous, apprehensive and before I could even start to show the possibilities everyone in the room categorically said NO… NO we will not give access to our customer….then I continued the demonstration and showed them how it worked, within minutes all the people in the room wanted to know how soon they could implement, quite simply we blew them away with the possibilities.

I have been in your shoes and searched the globe several years ago to find a better rostering solution for many industries not just recruitment. After looking at and trying more than 30 rostering solutions over 12 months I know I have the best solution for you.

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While we prefer employees to sign in with a smart device you can still sign in and out at a PC

While we prefer employees to sign in with a smart device you can still sign in and out at a PC. Some advantages of employees signing in and out through smart devices for time and attendance include…

How can employees sign in?

iPhone or Android – when employees sign in and out you can capture the GPS position of the employee and place a pin on a map on the employee time sheet.
iPad – when utilising an iPad as a kiosk for groups of employees to sign in and out you can turn on a feature to take a photo of each employee when they sign in and out with the photo going onto the employee time sheet.

As companies become larger in the number of locations the cost of any time and attendance system increases significantly when trying to implement hardware.

With 50 locations hardware costs can vary from $50,000 to $100,000 for biometric hardware including installation and cabling
With 50 locations hardware costs can vary from $25,000 to $50,000 for most other hardware choices like pin number and proximity including installation and cabling

You can completely remove the cost of hardware and give more functionality than a biometric time clock improving company efficiency simply by allowing employees to sign in and out via a PC.

Managers can manage employees, approve leave, build and adjust schedules and much more. Employees can sign in and out, apply for leave, advise future unavailability and more

Watch a very short video on how an employee can sign in at a PC completing removing the costs of hardware.

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Rostering made easy – Sharing open shifts for your staff to fill

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.

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

Email open shift alert

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