I have a few friends that work in the bar and restaurant industry and every week, after the staff rota has been completed, the phone calls start coming in.
Everyone wants to know when they’re working and if Johnny can swap shifts with Sarah. It must take at least an hour or two of staff time and negotiations before it’s all finished.
Enter the Notifier service from WorkWhen. Upload your staff rota in any format that you like – Word docs, spreadsheets, scans of written pages or even photos.
Work When then distributes the information to staff on your list by email or text message (SMS) – you get notified when each member of staff has opened their message so you know everyone’s got it.
The first 30 days are free, after which it’s just shy of AUS $80 a month for up to 15 staff.
OK, so it wouldn’t be too difficult to cobble something like this together for your own business – an email list and an online SMS account would do the trick. The point is people want simplicity – and WorkWhen delivers that – you don’t have to work it out, you just have to use it.
What other cumbersome work processes could you simplify?
Site: http://notifier.workwhen.com Via: Springwise
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We’re using a service similar in idea for texting out our schedules. findmyshift.com – it’s about $10 a month and pretty flexible. You edit your schedule online, drag & drop and what have you, then text it out to staff. It’s been about 6 months now and our staff are loving it.
http://www.findmyshift.com/