Blog on Workforce Management

An interview with one of our customers - the owner of a cafe chain, who has been using Shifton online service for quite a long time.

Unpredictable planning methods can negatively influence both employees and the business as a whole. For most types of businesses (cafes and restaurants, call centers, delivery services and many others), coordination of personnel is the most important process on which the company's revenue depends directly.

Shifton service developers added a feature that allows to dismiss company employees. This can be done on the “Employees” page.

At first, it seems that there is nothing easier than making an employee work schedule. All you have to do is input employee surnames into an Excel document, set a couple of parameters, variables, and press "Enter". In reality, things are a bit different. Creating daily чwork schedules, especially shift work schedules, for some form of enterprise is an arduous and responsible job placed on accountants or HR specialists.

We often face the notion of planning in our daily lives. Once a year we meticulously and thoroughly plan our trips, less often thinking about changing our workplace or celebrating anniversaries and wedding days. Of course, almost all of us plan how the monthly budget should be spent and how family funds are going to be distributed.

It seems that many of us are capable of distributing our time and the time of our employees properly and in a rational way. If that’s the case, why are we so often confronted with the lack of this prominent, valuable and sadly finite resource?

In the previous part of this article, we’ve talked about only a portion of leadership skills any good top manager should have. This part is going to discuss such character traits as a good sense of humor, curiosity, the ability to negotiate and delegate authority. Let’s begin.

Everybody knows the old saying’ “People aren’t born good leaders, they become them”. Is this true and which leadership traits one has to possess in order to be a good top manager? We tried answering this question when writing this article. Perhaps, all of us dreamed of becoming leaders and big bosses once in a while, or even small department managers when we were ordinary employees.

While people couldn’t dream of working remotely 10 years ago, nowadays every other company makes use of at least one remote employee. Big corporations and enterprises employ entire remote worker staffs, whose presence on office grounds is unrequired.

Relationships between employer and staff members are the basis of forming a microclimate in any organization. Many CEOs fail to learn the principles of effective employee communication and believe that they innately possess effective communication skills. Let's not forget that we live in ever-changing and dynamic times. The modern job market is full of confident and competitive representatives of various occupations.