ShiftHound

Online Staff Scheduling Company ShiftHound, Inc. Teams Up with Template Scheduling Company ShiftSchedules.com

Calling it a “perfect alignment,” Ian Chaplin, President of ShiftHound, Inc., announced a partnership between staff scheduling solutions ShiftHound, Inc. http://www.shifthound.com and ShiftSchedules.com http://www.shiftschedules.com. The partnership is an excellent vehicle for transitioning people from award winning spreadsheets to collaborative online scheduling.

San Diego, CA, April 30, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Calling it a “perfect alignment,” Ian Chaplin, President of ShiftHound, Inc., announced a partnership between staff scheduling solutions ShiftHound, Inc. (http://www.shifthound.com) and ShiftSchedules.com (http://www.shiftschedules.com). The partnership is an excellent vehicle for transitioning people from award winning spreadsheets to collaborative online staff scheduling.

ShiftSchedules.com can send customers that have outgrown spreadsheets or need more efficiency and online communication to ShiftHound, which has an easy to use interface, perfect for converting over spreadsheet users. ShiftHound can send customers that aren't operationally ready for an online solution to ShiftSchedules.com.

ShiftSchedules.com has created dozens of award winning spreadsheets and templates for staff scheduling that have been used for years. It is a great tool for small teams. ShiftHound is far and away the best value and the most innovative 100% web-based scheduler & open shift management (OSM) solution on the market that helps schedule staff, fill open shifts, see schedules and changes, request time-off, swap shifts and much more – all online.

“ShiftHound’s online scheduling solution is perfect for teams with 20+ staff members all the way up to enterprise level needs. Staff enjoy the online scheduling features and companies benefit from the efficiencies of the collaborative scheduling process as staff help to fill open shifts,” Chaplin explained. “It eliminates manager time spent calling employees, as well as increases accountability and communication across the organization. These are all benefits of online scheduling and ShiftHound.”

More benefits of ShiftHound:

· Multi-division/location, facility, department, unit, etc. scheduling capabilities
· Permission-based views so visibility into schedules is based on security levels
· “Point and click” online scheduling of any employee (full-time, part-time, or temporary) from any Internet browser
· Email and text message notifications of schedule approvals and changes
· Ratio-based staffing needs calculation
· Overtime scheduling alerts / Managing overtime hours
· Real-time calculation of labor costs and overtime
· Fostering a collaborative environment by offering employees shifts they want to work versus being told to work
· Managing multiple staff requesting the same shift (managers can determine who they approve)

About ShiftSchedules.com

Since 1998, ShiftSchedules.com has been creating award-winning scheduling applications. ShiftSchedules.com offers dozens of spreadsheets for use in scheduling employees to daily shifts and tasks. The spreadsheets can schedule people to rotating shifts, fixed shifts or split shifts. They also assign people to multiple daily tasks and to job crews, create floor schedules and schedule staff to daily calls and tasks. They are available in many different sizes depending on the number of employees, shifts and tasks that need to be scheduled.

ShiftSchedules.com also offers hundreds of templates for scheduling employees to daily shifts. There are 8, 10 and 12-hour templates for 1 or 2 or 3 shifts a day and 5, 6 and 7 days a week that can be downloaded and used to create weekly employee work schedules. The templates provide the same number of people each day of the week and are organized into weekly tables that clearly show days and shifts worked by each person. All of the schedules can be set up to rotate the days off for each person so everyone is treated in a fair and impartial manner regarding shifts worked and days off each week.

About ShiftHound

ShiftHound is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company that uses Web 2.0 technology to deliver integrated, customizable web based Workforce Management (WFM) solutions, such as scheduling and open shift management/optimization, that enable small and medium sized customers to leverage the features and functions of applications usually reserved for Fortune 500 companies, without the significant financial investment.

ShiftHound is 100-percent dedicated to the success of its customers and commitment to continually improving their technology. ShiftHound is committed to providing feature-rich top-quality workforce management services at very competitive rates and prides itself for being extremely responsive and available to their customers.

For more information, please visit http://www.shifthound.com or http://www.shiftschedules.com or contact Sales at 1.888.SHIFTRX (744.3879) or sales@shifthound.com.

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