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See our New Staff Scheduling iPhone App in Action
The folks at Daily App Show produced a nice demo of our new iPhone app for When I Work. It gives a nice overview of how you can use it for employee scheduling for your business. Check it out here … Continue reading
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New Employee Scheduling iPhone App Gets Simple and Social-esque
We’re excited to announce the release of our new mobile ‘When I Work’ app for iPhone that hit the App Store today. We’ve completely re-engineered the design and user experience. Version 2.0 has a much more elegant design, feature rich … Continue reading
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Twitter Helps Employers Manage Staff Scheduling One Tweet at a Time
ST. PAUL, MN – November 7, 2011 –The social and mobile employee scheduling app, When I Work, launched Twitter integration this month that allows employees to keep tabs on their schedules every time they access the popular social site. The … Continue reading
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New Facebook App Makes Employee Scheduling Simple, Social, and Shareable
ST. PAUL, MN – November 2, 2011 – With work schedules that vary day-to-day, night-to-night, it’s no wonder that 29% of shift workers are dissatisfied with their work-life balance, and 31% complain of “role overload.” Not only does the shift-work lifestyle … Continue reading
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Add Unpaid Breaks to Shifts
Today we added support for adding ‘unpaid breaks’ or lunch breaks to a shift. Adding unpaid breaks is simple. When you add a shift, simply enter a duration for the break in the “Unpaid Break” field. The time you enter … Continue reading
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Better Publishing Options for Your Schedule
We’ve made improvements to how your schedule gets published. In the next week or so, you’ll see a streamlined publishing system and additional options for publishing your schedule. Publish & Notify The original publish/save features are still available, however, we’ve … Continue reading
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Mobile Lifestyles Mean a Mobile Workforce
It’s no secret that our lives continue to become more and more mobile. In July 2011, The Pew Research Center released survey results showing that 83% of adults own a cell phone, and 35% own a smartphone. If you break … Continue reading
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Introducing Schedule Templates
Today’s a pretty big deal for When I Work. We launched “Templates” today, meaning that managers and Supervisors can now save templates of their schedules. Why use templates? In any business, there’s a natural ebb and flow that can throw … Continue reading
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Employees can contact their co-workers
We rolled out an updated today that gives employees the option to “share” their contact info with their coworkers within the schedule. Users can enable this by adjusting their “share” settings under “Profile & Settings”. Employees can view their … Continue reading
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A diamond may be forever, but a repeating shift isn’t
We’re working on an update to our “Repeating Shift” option. The new repeating shift option will allow rotating shifts. For example, you’ll be able to set a shift to repeat ever 2 weeks. This will provide greater flexibility for businesses … Continue reading
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