Employee Availability

Availability

Trying to plan your schedule without knowing which team members are available is nigh on impossible. You might as well pull names from a hat. In the dark. While wearing a straitjacket. (You get the picture.) Instead, it might be easier to allow your team to log the days when they can and can’t work ahead of time.

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Easy Planning

Rather than trying to keep track of everyone’s availability with a wall of sticky notes, sit back, relax, and let your team do the hard work for you.

After all, who knows their availability better than they do?

With the ability to set one-off or recurring unavailability, as well as choosing whether they're unavailable for the entire day or just part of it, having employee availability automatically factored in when assigning shifts should make all of your lives easier, whether they need to fit their hours around the school run, have committed to taking their elderly relative shopping each week, or just really hate Mondays.

Calendar Overview

With unavailability and leave flying around left, right, and centre, having a calendar overview can come in handy every now and again.

Especially if you’re concerned a particular employee constantly seems to be unavailable - or never seems to take a break!

Having availability pull through to the schedule allows you to easily check upcoming and historical leave and unavailability for each employee, helping you to manage your team more effectively.

Straightforward Scheduling

Of course, when it comes down to it the main benefit of logging unavailability is being able to schedule shifts that suit both you and your team. After all, there’s not much that’s worse than publishing your shiny new schedule just to be hit with an influx of requests for changes.

Instead, when you assign shifts you’ll only be shown the employees who are available so that you can make plans while safe in the knowledge that your team will be where you expect them to be, when you expect them to be.

Employee unavailability will even display on the main scheduling calendar so you’re not left wondering why you haven’t scheduled employees for more days. Useful, right?

Hear from our customers

" We transitioned to Shiftie in 2023. It has been very popular amongst our team, with its easy to use features and accessibility.This has made scheduling staff a lot easier, with a lot of beneficial features. Uploading shifts is simple, and our team can clearly see when they have been assigned shifts. "

Chris Wilson
Streamvale

" We have used Shiftie here at Birdland now for almost 2 years. The benefits it has brought compared to the previous paper timesheets has meant that payroll days run a lot smoother. The integration with DigiTickets helps us to schedule employees according to pre booked attendance and the estimated daily costs help me schedule to budget daily, leading to greater cost control as well as controlling the hours worked. All these benefits whilst giving each employee the freedom to clock in and out themselves, book holiday and unavailability and check schedules themselves directly. "

Simon Cox
Birdland Park and Gardens

" Shiftie has modernised the way we manage our team's time and attendance. The system is comprehensive and exactly what we were searching for. The team at Shiftie is exceptional - they are responsive, efficient, and consistently deliver on their promises. The system itself is user-friendly and easy to manage, both for managers and team members. We are grateful to have discovered Shiftie and appreciate all they have done for us. "

Chris Goodchild
Wookey Hole

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