EasyShifts

Pros: Employees can communicate with scheduler and other care staff in EasyShifts.
They can pick up without going through the scheduler.
The scheduler can keep track of hours and overtime.
The employees have control over finding coverage for a shift that they can' t work.

Cons: Once I figured things out I really don't have any cons. Maybe a little bit more personalization for our business and staffing, but right now I work around it.

Overall: Although change is difficult when you switch from one way of doing the schedule to another the more I worked with EasyShifts the easier it became. I love that our care staff can just go in and pick up shifts that become open or are up for grabs, but I also like that I can put overtime restriction on just in case we are limiting the amount of overtime our care staff are getting. It makes things so much easier.

Pros: EasyShifts is a very robust online scheduling software program. It allows you to customize roles, individuals, shift lengths, etc. can all be tailored to fit your needs. Need to split a shift--no problem! You can custom edit individual shifts for a single day without redoing the entire schedule. Need to limit overtime hours--easily done. EasyShifts alerts you when someone is going beyond his/her allotted hours for a pay period. It can also generate custom reports to let you know how many hours and types of shifts an employee has worked for a given period of time.

Cons: There are only two features that I wish EasyShifts supported. The first is a monthly view. It is a weekly based system, and that is the longest period of time you are able to view the entire schedule. Individual schedules can be printed out for a month in a traditional calendar view, but the group schedule is only viewable a week at a time.

The second feature I would like is the ability to copy and paste an employee in a given role across several days. There are shift templates that allow you to use a set role consistently, but you have to assign an employee to that template on an individual basis. Being able to copy an employee across several days (the same shift) would be useful as that is how most individuals tend to work.

Overall: We use this software to schedule and staff our very busy emergency department that has multiple nurses, techs, CNAs, physicians, and mid-levels. We have been using it for almost 10 years now, and it continues to serve us very well.

Pros: I do like that it is easy for all staff to log in and see schedules and trade or pick up shifts when necessary.

Cons: Staff does seem to have trouble using some features on the mobile ap. As long as they go to the website everything seems to work well.

Overall: My staff Supervisor does the scheduling. I am still not familiar with all of the functions available. However, it does seem to be quite handy and serve our purpose very well.

Pros: Very user friendly. Helps streamline my scheduling. I like the features of being able to track staffing.

Cons: Would like for the app to offer more features for my team members.

Overall: Overall, EasyShifts is easy to learn and use. Customer support has always been very helpful. EasyShifts has made my job of scheduling more streamlined.

Pros: So user-friendly for all of our staff as well as economical!! Great support from Easy Shifts team!

Cons: Can't think of anything we do not like. It is such a great program.

Overall: Our team uses this program daily. We love how all of the staff can access their schedules and communicate with each other individually or in a group message.