Are you finding that managing the employee schedule and other labor issues at your grocery store is consuming your time? You are not alone! Grocery store managers commonly spend hours every week - sometimes more than fifteen or twenty hours weekly - building the employee schedule. There are many factors to consider while building the schedule to keep labor costs under budget while still meeting the necessary business and employee requirements. Factors such as employee skills, staff member availability, time off requests, shift swaps, accrued PTO, and the busy (and not so busy) times in your particular store.
TimeForge can cut the time spent doing routine but tedious tasks like building a grocery employee schedule or monitoring attendance at your grocery from hours to minutes. And TimeForge gives you the tools you need to painlessly do the less routine, but vitally important, tasks like fine-tuning your work force and monitoring and forecasting labor costs.
TimeForge is here to help, and will improve your business profits. With TimeForge, you can:
Once the employee schedule is complete, you then need to communicate the schedule to all your employees, and will likely need to adjust it throughout the week. Staff members will call in sick, request shift swaps, and turnover will require that the schedule change. All affected staff members need to be notified of the new schedule changes. Small mistakes while making these schedule changes can result in missed shifts, unhappy employees (and increased costly turnover), or even labor fines. The process, using Microsoft Excel, pen-and-paper, or schedule templates is arduous and complex. Not anymore!
With TimeForge, you can:
- Build efficient employee schedules for one or more locations, in just a few minutes for each store.
- Collect attendance and time punch data and then export payroll to many popular payroll providers - such as ADP, SurePayroll, Paychex, Quickbooks, and others - with a single click.
- Stop employees from riding the clock by controlling early clock ins and late clock outs, in order to control labor costs immediately.
- Collect attendance and time punch data and then export payroll to many popular payroll providers - such as ADP, SurePayroll, Paychex, Quickbooks, and others - with a single click.
- Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
- Remotely check on employees that are clocked in - using the web, Facebook, or a cell phone.
- Provide remote 24/7 access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
Your time is money. But in both flush and tight economic periods, grocery managers need to do more than manage day-to-day activities quickly and efficiently. In addition to saving manager and staff hours on scheduling and attendance monitoring, with TimeForge you can cut costs by:
- Using your existing staff more efficiently in order to avoid layoffs or unnecessary hiring.
- Trying out various "what-if" scenarios to visualize staffing or schedule changes - without losing your original schedule.
- Use your existing staff more efficiently while meeting business requirements and employee needs.
- Using your existing staff more efficiently in order to avoid layoffs or unnecessary hiring.
- Trying out various "what-if" scenarios to visualize staffing or schedule changes - without losing your original schedule.
In fact, TimeForge can increase the profits at your grocery business by 3-5%.
TimeForge is a complete labor management solution for grocers, providing one-click seamless access to employee scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. You can use the whole TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your grocery business requires. - 29969
TimeForge can cut the time spent doing routine but tedious tasks like building a grocery employee schedule or monitoring attendance at your grocery from hours to minutes. And TimeForge gives you the tools you need to painlessly do the less routine, but vitally important, tasks like fine-tuning your work force and monitoring and forecasting labor costs.
TimeForge is here to help, and will improve your business profits. With TimeForge, you can:
Once the employee schedule is complete, you then need to communicate the schedule to all your employees, and will likely need to adjust it throughout the week. Staff members will call in sick, request shift swaps, and turnover will require that the schedule change. All affected staff members need to be notified of the new schedule changes. Small mistakes while making these schedule changes can result in missed shifts, unhappy employees (and increased costly turnover), or even labor fines. The process, using Microsoft Excel, pen-and-paper, or schedule templates is arduous and complex. Not anymore!
With TimeForge, you can:
- Build efficient employee schedules for one or more locations, in just a few minutes for each store.
- Collect attendance and time punch data and then export payroll to many popular payroll providers - such as ADP, SurePayroll, Paychex, Quickbooks, and others - with a single click.
- Stop employees from riding the clock by controlling early clock ins and late clock outs, in order to control labor costs immediately.
- Collect attendance and time punch data and then export payroll to many popular payroll providers - such as ADP, SurePayroll, Paychex, Quickbooks, and others - with a single click.
- Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.
- Remotely check on employees that are clocked in - using the web, Facebook, or a cell phone.
- Provide remote 24/7 access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
Your time is money. But in both flush and tight economic periods, grocery managers need to do more than manage day-to-day activities quickly and efficiently. In addition to saving manager and staff hours on scheduling and attendance monitoring, with TimeForge you can cut costs by:
- Using your existing staff more efficiently in order to avoid layoffs or unnecessary hiring.
- Trying out various "what-if" scenarios to visualize staffing or schedule changes - without losing your original schedule.
- Use your existing staff more efficiently while meeting business requirements and employee needs.
- Using your existing staff more efficiently in order to avoid layoffs or unnecessary hiring.
- Trying out various "what-if" scenarios to visualize staffing or schedule changes - without losing your original schedule.
In fact, TimeForge can increase the profits at your grocery business by 3-5%.
TimeForge is a complete labor management solution for grocers, providing one-click seamless access to employee scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. You can use the whole TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your grocery business requires. - 29969
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TimeForge is a leading provider of powerful and simple-to-use employee scheduling and online labor management software for the grocery, retail, service, and hospitality industries. TimeForge software is used by owners and operators around the globe to increase profits, reduce turnover, and improve retention. Read more about TimeForge and employee scheduling
