Staff Rostering to Payroll: The Right Way to Do It
What’s the best way to integrate staff rostering and payroll? Explore four proven methods, from simple exports to full API sync - plus how not to do it.
RosterLab Blog
Insights, tips, and updates on workforce management and employee scheduling.
Fairer Scheduling in the Workplace: Reducing Shift Bias
Learn how to spot and reduce shift allocation bias in staff rosters to improve fairness, trust, and team wellbeing.
How to optimise shifts during a hiring freeze
Facing a hiring freeze? Learn how rostering, skill mix planning, and communication can help your team stay safe and supported during a hiring freeze.
How To Reduce Absenteeism For Shift Workers
Struggling with absenteeism for your shift based workers? Discover 10 proven strategies to reduce employee absences and improve retention and productivity.
The Comprehensive Guide to Facilitating Seamless Shift Swaps
Learn how shift swaps work, why they matter, and how to create a good shift swap policy to ensure fairness and compliance for your shift-workers.
7 different types of shifts for staff scheduling
There are many different shift types for modern workforces. Choosing the correct shift type for your team's work schedule can make a big difference.
Optimizing On-Call Scheduling: A Win-Win for Work-Life Balance
Discover how to balance on-call scheduling with RosterLab for happier staff and operational efficiency.
How to Implement Self-Scheduling for Modern Teams
Learn how to implement self-scheduling in five clear steps to boost flexibility, staff satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
Guest Blog - A study about self-rostering
Kait O’Callahan, Clinical Coordinator at Unitec, is our guest author. She, along with Sharon Sitters, Lecturer at Unitec, and Mike Peterson, Clinical Tutor at Whanganui Hospital, have done a study through Unitec into the perceptions around self-rostering in radiographers. Rosterlab was fortunate enough to support their research with our AI rostering platform.
Open shifts 101: Understanding the Basics of Open Shifts
Dive into our beginner's guide to open shifts: grasp the essentials and master effective implementation. Learn more about open shifts.
Rostering 101: Understanding the Basics of Rostering
New to rostering or want to improve your existing roster? This guide covers all the rostering basics including key concepts, challenges & best practices.
The 4 levels of staff schedule optimisation
An excellent roster is one that best meets and enables a unit’s staffing coverage requirements. Real life is complex and nuanced, so simple representations of which staff we need and when we need them can always be improved. In this article, we present four different levels of staffing optimisation. Each level represents a more complex rostering problem, allowing for more optimisation possibilities and considerably more effort and skill to construct.