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12.8.2022

Staff planning excel: Why exactly not?

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Employee scheduling in Excel: no longer a thing of the past.

It is important for you as an entrepreneur that you have up-to-date information at your disposal about personnel to be deployed. Many companies archive this data in Excel files. However, spreadsheets are not easy for everyone to view and require a lot of work to keep up-to-date. When using Excel, the information often ends up somewhere that is not easy for everyone to find. Keeping all the data up to date often requires a lot of manual labor, making it difficult or nearly impossible to maintain real-time visibility.

In doing so, scheduling your staff is a lot more extensive than it may sound at first glance. Think of the planning itself, a time registration system, clock system and maybe even a claims system. If all this is kept up to date in Excel, you will soon not see the wood for the trees. 

Excel offers too little flexibility 

Another reason why it is out of date to use a work schedule in Excel is that it is difficult to adjust staff schedules. For example, you have created a work schedule and shared it with the relevant department, but suddenly the situation changes. For example, due to absence or leave of employees. This requires an adjustment in the roster, but it is not possible to quickly and efficiently inform the department and its staff of this. Similarly, it is difficult to check for availability or to propose open shifts. 

Solution: one app as a matchmaker

Do you also want to get rid of the time-consuming and inefficient way of working with personnel planning in Excel? We have the solution for you. Leave the outdated way of personnel planning behind you in the past and set your sights on the future. With Flex.works you plan 50% more effectively in one app with the seamless connection between permanent employees and flexible employees.

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Take advantage of all the functionalities, from staff scheduling to attendance registration from pool management to time recording. So ask for a demo right away.

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