News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee scheduling software).

Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee schedu... by mgkimsal on Thursday April 07, 2011 @02:29PM (#2420604)
The majority of places I've worked where schedules were 'posted' and I would 'trade shifts' with someone else have been retail and food service jobs, not 'office' jobs. Yet the signup page only talks about different sizes of offices ('small','medium', etc). Might want to reconsider that wording ("organization"?)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee schedu... by geeksam on Thursday April 07, 2011 @02:40PM (#2420663)
The last such place I worked was in a relay service call center. It was right smack in the middle of your retail/food service to office/cubicle continuum.

But yes, "organization" would work nicely for both. Also: "team".

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee schedu... by jseifer on Thursday April 07, 2011 @02:50PM (#2420708)
I like that wording a lot more and think you're right about that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee schedu... by mthoms on Thursday April 07, 2011 @04:54PM (#2421160)
As someone who manages a dozen retail employees I concur. I'm using a custom developed Excel/VBA solution but would love to use something web-based.

If you are going to target retail business (I think you should) you should keep in mind that most people working retail are young and have other commitments (school, other jobs, etc). For this reason I think having employee-editable "availability" schedules would be a killer feature.

edit: I see that you have a "request day off" feature: is it possible to request just a portion of a day off? Think - "I have an exam that morning but can work at noon"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee schedu... by jseifer on Friday April 08, 2011 @02:20PM (#2425027)
Yep that's built in though I should probably highlight it more on the tour. There are two possible ways to request time off:

- In your profile. These are times that you can never work and they are recurring. You can set yourself to be unavailabile every Monday from 2-4pm, for example.

- In the Requests Off section. This section is for one time requests off, as in your exam example.

[ Parent | on HN ]