Employee Management: Employee scheduling program

A good employee scheduling program enables planners and managers to focus on developing job schedules, calendars and to-do lists that help workers do their tasks and jobs in a better way. Such a program lets bring the highest value to your company as your employees can carry out their duties in line with successful task & time management practices.

Overview

An employee scheduling program is a software application for managing tasks and time. It allows users to create schedules, make to-do lists, estimate working hours and do other things necessary for time planning and management.

Such a program can be used both online and locally. A program online lets you use a web browser to connect to a remote database through Internet and collaborate with other users. Using a desktop version locally allows you to connect to a local database over LAN, without using Internet connection.

There are also shareware and freeware. Shareware solutions are download programs that you can use for free during a certain period of time, while freeware solutions can be used for absolutely free without time limits. However, shareware often has more features and better functionality comparing to shareware programs.

Benefits

Desktop packages give you the following advantages and benefits:

• More effective decision-making because you gain full visibility of resource availability and planning constraints (such as time, technology, people).
• A single database of employee schedules and calendars to help you plan short-, medium- and long-term workforce efficiency.
• KPI-driven planning – you can set performance indicators that help you plan resource utilization and workload.
• Better alignment of employee capacity with business demand – you can estimate worker potential and establish business goals accordingly.

Example

You can get all these benefits if you start using VIP Task Manager. This software features task management and scheduling tools that help plan and track jobs and working time of your employees. For example, VIP Task Manager features Calendar view that lets create group schedules and timelines. You can display several schedules on one computer screen. In Calendar view there is Filter Bar that helps track tasks placed on multiple schedules.

VIP Task Manager can be used as a shareware package – this means you can use Calendar view to plan and schedule group tasks and time. As compared to online solutions, VIP Task Manager does not require live Internet connection. Users of the software can use local network to connect to one and the same database and view their tasks and schedules.