Planday, the leading software-as-a-service solution for employee scheduling has raised 3.75 million USD (25 million SEK) from Creandum. Previously, Creandum has backed companies such as Spotify, iZettle, VideoPlaza, Vivino and Autobutler, and has played an important role in their international success. The funding will be spent on expanding Planday to international markets.
Today, people from all over the world gather to mark the workers’ fight for better working conditions on the labor market, and Planday plays an important role in securing proper working conditions via a very special feature.
You don’t have to do all the HR work on your own. Planday enables you to share your HR tasks with your employees and makes your work processes much more collaborative. By making your employees responsible for some of the administrative tasks, you will be getting more time to focus on developing your business and staying ahead of your competitors.
We believe that Planday is the best workforce scheduling solution on the market as it will save you time and money on more than just employee scheduling. In this blog post, we will point out the benefits of a function that will enable you to work smarter and is one of the most popular features among our customers.
It’s true, there really are 53 reasons why you should use workforce management software. A workforce management system is not just another program to install on your computer – it’s the whole package and it can handle everything online from HR to hour registration and scheduling in one single tool.
It’s our pleasure to introduce to you our guest blogger, LeeAnne Homsey. LeeAnne is a customer service expert from Connecticut, USA, with more than 30 years of experience in the restaurant industry.
While Excel is a very good tool for certain purposes, it is not designed for employee scheduling despite the fact that many still use it. To be honest, it’s an old-fashioned, inefficient and time-consuming tool to use for your employee scheduling – and in the end, you might as well be using pen and paper.
An employee can easily go to work in a good mood, do a good job and feel comfortable in his position. But it is the one who is innovative, passionate and engaged who will ensure that there is money in your cash register. It’s therefore necessary for you to spend time on setting some standards as to how you will encourage your employees.
Having an employee handbook is one of the most efficient ways of training your employees in following the right procedures. It functions both as a manual and as protection in any case of rift between you and your staff.
It doesn’t have to be difficult to cut away any unnecessary costs in your restaurant. With a few small adjustments, you can save a lot more than you think.
