Personnel planning Excel

Optimize your shift scheduling

While Excel is ultimately a record of shift scheduling and the planner has to have all the rules and standards in their head (or even consult other tables and documents), shyftplan offers an efficient all-in-one solution with stored rules and standards that the system uses to support the planner and guide them through the planning process: from personnel planning to the detailed recording of working hours and vacation planning. So while you have to search for and compare different columns in Excel, the shyftplan duty roster presents everything clearly. You can create a new duty roster with just a few clicks. No more adding up working times, but an automated and supportive system that simplifies the organization of shifts. Any planning errors are also quickly revealed, whereas they have to be laboriously identified in Excel. Planning rules, special features and standards are stored in shyftplan and taken into account in any subsequent planning.

Saving time thanks to online tools

When comparing the usability of the two tools, Excel versus shyftplan, it quickly becomes clear: while Excel is relatively confusing and you have to search for relevant data for a long time, shyftplan offers an intuitive user interface and thus noticeably reduces the workload. In shyftplan, you have everything at a glance - the employees, the individual shifts, the added hours, unoccupied shifts and overlaps. Of course, the whole thing works across all devices: whether PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone! Instead of several programs, you only need one solution for everything.

Participation makes people happy

Employees can also be involved in shift and shift planning - right from the start, so that time-consuming phone calls at short notice are finally a thing of the past. Individual employee requests, for example regarding availability, can simply be stored in the app and are quickly and easily incorporated into the planning later on. Is your employee unavailable every Monday afternoon because they have a private commitment? No problem, once stored in the system and filtered accordingly, as a planner you will only see available employees when a particular shift is occupied. Other popular functions of shyftplan are the request for shift swaps between colleagues with the same qualifications and the option to independently apply for open shifts. The process always remains clear and transparent for everyone involved.

Automated duty scheduling

Long-term planning is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it benefits everyone involved, as it allows work processes and leisure activities to be better coordinated. On the other hand, it involves time risks, as every change has to be laboriously incorporated into the plan. Creating a monthly schedule with Excel can be a Sisyphean task. It takes a lot of time and a very focused way of working not to lose track of things. With shyftplan, planning is significantly simplified. If a short-term absence does lead to changes in the duty roster, these can be communicated quickly and easily to all relevant employees via push notification. Media disruptions caused by printing out and manually sending the schedule, time-consuming telephone consultations and mountains of paper applications are now a thing of the past. This saves everyone involved time and nerves.

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