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Build smarter shifts, keep every location covered

Plan and manage employee shifts with ease across teams, departments, and locations. Timelabs helps you create rosters, assign shifts, manage schedule changes, and keep your workforce aligned with business requirements.

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Put the right people on
the right shift

Managing changing schedules across teams and locations can quickly become complex. Timelabs gives HR teams and managers a centralized way to plan shifts, assign employees, and maintain accurate rosters, without the hassle of spreadsheets.

Flexible shift planning

Create and manage shift schedules around your business hours, workforce requirements, departments, and locations. Easily adapt schedules as your operational needs change.

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Faster shift assignment

Assign shifts to individual employees or teams and make schedule changes quickly without rebuilding the entire roster. Keep your workforce organized and schedules up to date with minimal effort.

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Centralized roster management

Create and manage employee rosters from a single place, giving HR teams and managers clear visibility into scheduled shifts, employee assignments, and workforce coverage.

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Multi location scheduling

Manage employee shifts across branches, offices, plants, and other work locations from a centralized system. Maintain consistent scheduling, improve workforce visibility, and ensure every location has the right coverage.

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Connect shift planning with everyday HR operations

Timelabs connects shift schedules with the workforce processes that depend on them, helping organizations maintain consistency across scheduling, attendance, and payroll.

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Attendance

Connect employee schedules with attendance to accurately track working hours, identify late arrivals, and manage attendance exceptions.

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Overtime

Use scheduled working hours as the foundation for tracking and managing overtime in line with your organization’s policies and approval processes.

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Leave management

Coordinate employee leave with shift schedules to maintain clear workforce visibility, minimize scheduling conflicts, and support better workforce planning.

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Payroll

Connect shift and attendance information with payroll processes to support accurate workforce calculations and help ensure employees are paid based on relevant working hours and attendance data.

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Keep every schedule controlled and accountable

Give the right users the right level of access while maintaining clear control over shift creation, employee assignments, and schedule changes.

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Role based access

Control access to shift schedules based on employee roles and responsibilities, ensuring users can view or manage only the information relevant to their role.

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Controlled schedule changes

Control who can create, modify, or update employee shifts, helping maintain schedule accuracy, consistency, and accountability.

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Approval workflows

Support approval-based shift changes wherever your organization requires additional control, ensuring schedule updates are reviewed and authorized by the right people.

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Everything you need to manage employee shifts

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Shift pattern management

Create and manage flexible shift patterns based on your organization’s working hours, operational requirements, and workforce needs.

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Employee shift assignment

Assign shifts to individual employees, teams, departments, or employee groups based on your workforce and operational requirements.

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Daily, weekly & monthly rosters

Plan employee schedules across daily, weekly, and monthly time periods, and maintain organized rosters for better workforce planning and visibility.

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Bulk shift scheduling

Assign or update shifts for multiple employees at once, reducing repetitive administrative work and making workforce scheduling faster and more efficient. .

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Excel roster import

Import existing employee rosters through Excel and simplify bulk scheduling, making it easier to move from spreadsheets to centralized shift management.

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Shift changes & rescheduling

Make quick schedule changes when employee availability or operational requirements change, helping you keep shifts updated and workforce coverage on track.

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Complete visibility into your workforce schedule

Get a centralized view of employee shifts and rosters, so HR teams and managers can quickly see who is scheduled, where they are working, and when they are expected to work.

  • View employee shift schedules
  • Access daily, weekly, and monthly rosters
  • Monitor workforce coverage across locations
  • Make quick schedule updates as requirements change
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One shift management system for every location

Manage workforce schedules across branches, offices, plants, sites, and multiple operational locations from one centralized platform. Maintain consistent scheduling, improve visibility, and keep workforce coverage aligned across every location.

Multi shift operations

Manage multiple shifts across teams, departments, and locations while maintaining centralized visibility of employee schedules. Support different working hours and shift patterns while keeping workforce planning organized and consistent.

Flexible shift patterns

Manage different shift patterns and working schedules across teams, departments, and locations. Adapt schedules to meet changing workforce and operational requirements.

Centralized workforce planning

Keep workforce schedules organized and accessible through one centralized system, giving HR teams and managers clear visibility into shifts, assignments, and workforce coverage.

FAQs

Shift management software helps organizations create, assign, monitor and manage employee work schedules and shift policies.

Yes. Timelabs supports organizations with multiple shifts and workforce schedules.

Yes. Shift definitions can be used with attendance policies to evaluate employee working patterns.

Yes. Relevant shift and attendance information can flow into payroll workflows where configured.

Authorized users can manage employee shift assignments according to organizational permissions.

Yes. Shift configurations can support organizations that operate rotating or variable schedules.

Yes. Organizations can manage workforce schedules across locations and teams.

Employee-facing access can provide visibility into applicable schedules and workforce information.

Shift and attendance policies can be used to identify working-time conditions relevant to overtime processing.

Yes. Workforce and attendance reporting can provide visibility into schedules and related attendance information.

Centralized schedules, configurable rules and connected attendance workflows reduce spreadsheet-based scheduling work.

Manufacturing, healthcare, retail, security, BPO and other shift-based organizations can benefit from structured shift management.
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