From the article: Scheduling Employees
Once the retail manager understands the factors involved in scheduling employees, he/she can become skilled at balancing the store's staffing issues. Scheduling becomes easier over time but what tips or advice can you offer other retailers facing scheduling issues?
Tools to make staff scheduling easier
- A key part of managing any staff schedule is keeping it up to date. Web based applications allow the schedule to be updated immediately, from anywhere you have access to the web. Make sure you choose an easy to learn and easy to use solution or whoever is doing the scheduling will become frustrated and ultimately, not use it. A well thought out scheduling application should have an area to enter notes about employees etc.
- —MalcolmMarcus