They allow you to suspend your account for the off-season at no cost, yet retain your employee data and past schedules so you can re-up and hit the ground running for the next year. Perhaps most importantly for seasonal businesses is WhenToWork’s willingness to work with you, by creating pricing structures that are effective for your business. There is one, up-to-date, online source for all scheduling information. Managers, on the other hand, can abandon the stacks of sticky notes used to TRY to keep track of employee requests. Employees take responsibility for their schedule by keeping them up-to-date with schedule changes, providing online access to their schedule, allowing the employee to control the way they are notified, and making it easy to notify their manager of schedule changes. WhenToWork ensures your employees know when and where they are scheduled to work. W2W is a wonderful solution when you have many part-time employees, with variable schedules. In addition, I have frequently recommended WhenToWork to other operators. I have used WhenToWork (W2W) for many years, in several different seasonal businesses. The staff at W2W quickly replies to any questions or issues and have often given suggestions that make things even easier.
Having Part-Time staff take the responsibility to enter their own availability has allowed me to work more efficiently and given them the opportunity to be proactive with their scheduling needs. W2W allows me to schedule Part-Time staff according to their requirements, but to allow Volunteers to choose their shifts, offering the flexibility we offer for Volunteers. Our employees love the ability to post a shift and check on the status of a possible trade at any time. We post shifts, and they are picked up within a matter of hours. We often need to call extra staff in at the last minute, and W2W makes that easy to do. Most of our staff became proficient in just a few weeks! Our employees have many different levels of computer skills so it was important to find a system that would be easy to navigate. We use W2W to schedule both Part-Time and Volunteer Interpreters as well as Volunteer Greeters and other Volunteer Staff.