Nothing short of a revolution has taken place in media and publishing in the last 5 years. Not only is there more to report but it has to be reported faster. Good journalism is needed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Management teams using paper and pencil for scheduling talent between editorial desks or media networks are simply outmaneuvered and die. Successful multi-media management teams have discovered how Schedule24 Professional helps re-align traditional working practices and deliver scheduling solutions into the multi-platform media age.
Schedule24 Professional will help you:
- Deliver an affordable solution right now
- Use industry standard networks requiring no specialist IT support
- Structure and align flexible scheduling to management goals
- Use shift pattern designs to automate staff schedules
- Keep track of staff headcount, working hours and costs
- Maintain staff records including vacation and absences
- Dynamically publish staff schedules to the web for universal access
- Email schedules directly to staff for faster response
- Generate management information that improves decision making
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Schedule24 Professional Key Features
Microsoft Office Style Interface
Schedule24 Professional works just like other Microsoft Office software. It supports familiar Microsoft Office workflow which reduces training overhead and makes you productive from day one.
Staff Scheduling and Shift Pattern Design Wizard
New to staff scheduling? Just follow the EasyStep Schedule Wizard to automate your schedule. Walk through the entire process, step-by-step, receiving helpful hints along the way. Use the shift pattern design Wizard to get your shift designs off to a flying start.
HR Personnel Manager
Maintains staff information in one place for quick and easy reference while scheduling. Staff contact details, leave entitlement and costs can be configured globally or individually. Service and training records include authorization dates for skills.
Flexible working
Design shift patterns to match demand or new ways of working. Explore and share innovative and flexible working arrangements with staff. Significantly reduce project and management negotiation with well prepared operational schedules with a click of the mouse.
Team Scheduling
Staff can be easily deployed by editorial or media teams and allocated any number of shift patterns. Changing staff from one team to another is a simple drag and drop procedure that updates the staff schedule automatically.
Coordinate production deadlines
You can coordinate team assignments and reinforce target deadlines through staff scheduling. Detailed information can be added using a combination of staff shift assignments, unavailability, breaks and memo information.
Cost Management
Control staff deployment costs including full-time and contract staff. Costs can be easily calculated for hourly, daily and salaried staff. Configure variable rates for dynamically calculating overtime, premium time, weekend and public holiday working.
Better decisions
Tracking staff headcount is obvious. Staff distribution is better and by integrating information about staff costs and hours you get the bigger picture. Are the job roles leading up to those deadlines well balanced throughout the day or week .
Publish once reach all
Avoid chasing around seeking reassurance from staff they know when they are working. Schedule24
dynamically publishes staff schedules to the web so staff can access their schedules when they want from wherever they want. For a more direct approach staff can be emailed their schedules.
Management Information
In addition to staff schedules a range of reports including dynamic reporting options about scheduling activity can be generated including breakdown costs, staff time sheets and time and attendance reporting.
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