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Re:Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling by philip1209 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:12PM (#11212193)
Flex is our product for contractors - where workers claim shifts.

Boss is our product for employees -where workers are assigned shifts.

They're very similar products, but we can't tell contractors when to work - they pick - and we don't have compliance built in for contractors (mainly because they pick when they work).

For the events company - we have timezone support for each location. As you start to add locations with different timezones, Staffjoy begins to show more localization information to aid in scheduling.

Re:Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling by raywu on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:44PM (#11212871)
We have been looking for a solution. Can you talk more about compliance?
Re:Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling by philip1209 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:01PM (#11212979)
Sure. For each role, you can set how many hours a person works in a workday (e.g. California limits 8 hours before overtime), and how many consecutive days they may work (e.g. California limits to 6 consecutive workdays in a workweek before overtime - we technically go beyond this and limit to 6 consecutive days independent of the window). For a worker, you may set how many hours per workweek they may work (e.g. 30-40 hours).

We define a workday as midnight to midnight, and you control the workweek start day when you create the trial.

Other nice-to-have features include that we try to give consecutive days off (like a weekend) when possible and we allow you to control the minimum amount of time between shifts to prevent "clopens" (e.g. when a worker closes at midnight then gets assigned the opening shift at 7am).

If you have more detailed questions, I'm happy to answer them via email too (philip at staffjoy)

Re:Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling by raywu on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:43PM (#11213275)
Thanks Philip, rying to set up workers to roles, but kept on getting an error
Re:Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling by andhess on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @07:37PM (#11214258)
Hi Ray, Thank you for reporting this. A fix is on its way out and should be live shortly.
Re:Show HN: Staffjoy Boss – Automated Employee Scheduling by philip1209 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @07:17PM (#11214165)
Sending you an email now