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Ok, thx for the video link. It does show a little how it works. Now, question: How is this better than a notebook and or an excel file? That's what the people

Ok, thx for the video link. It does show a little how it works. Now, question: How is this better than a notebook and or an excel file? That's what the people I know use (for years) and they hardly have issues with shifts. I even looked into building them a "better solution" because I thought I was smarter than them. But nothing I did was better that their own system. By the way, I'm not grilling you publicly! Just really interested in what you came up with. :)

philip1209 11y ago
Go for it! For this product Flex: 1) Automation. We automatically generate shifts that match demand. Early users have seen costs decrease up to 10% by preventing overscheduling. Most contractor environments have highly-variable needs throughout the day. (Stay tuned - we'll be releasing some integrations with popular workforce data sources to do this even more automatically). 2) Communication. You get race conditions as large workforces try to claim shifts. We handle all of that, and we notify workers about new / changed / available shifts. This doesn't work on a spreadsheet. Plus, workers find out which shifts they are working immediately - there's no waiting on emails or texts. 3) Attendance - we detect truancy for users of our Timeclock. For contractor workforces at scale, seeing who missed a shift is hard. 4) Timezones. We have distributed workforces using Staffjoy, and our app localizes shifts to times. So, agents in the Philippines doing work for US-based bot companies can more easily understand when they are working. For employees, on our Boss plan, the big added advantage is: 4) Compliance. We do rule-based scheduling to enforce many factors of compliance, such as the number of hours per week somebody may be scheduled.
- asimuvPR 11y ago
  Sounds good! Could you post when the demo account is ready for use? I'd be nice to use it before showing it off. Also, do you have re-selling opportunities?

philip1209 11y ago

Go for it! For this product Flex: 1) Automation. We automatically generate shifts that match demand. Early users have seen costs decrease up to 10% by preventing overscheduling. Most contractor environments have highly-variable needs throughout the day. (Stay tuned - we'll be releasing some integrations with popular workforce data sources to do this even more automatically). 2) Communication. You get race conditions as large workforces try to claim shifts. We handle all of that, and we notify workers about new / changed / available shifts. This doesn't work on a spreadsheet. Plus, workers find out which shifts they are working immediately - there's no waiting on emails or texts. 3) Attendance - we detect truancy for users of our Timeclock. For contractor workforces at scale, seeing who missed a shift is hard. 4) Timezones. We have distributed workforces using Staffjoy, and our app localizes shifts to times. So, agents in the Philippines doing work for US-based bot companies can more easily understand when they are working. For employees, on our Boss plan, the big added advantage is: 4) Compliance. We do rule-based scheduling to enforce many factors of compliance, such as the number of hours per week somebody may be scheduled.

asimuvPR 11y ago
Sounds good! Could you post when the demo account is ready for use? I'd be nice to use it before showing it off. Also, do you have re-selling opportunities?