Staff Scheduling to Payroll: The Right Way to Do It
What’s the best way to integrate staff scheduling 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 schedules to improve fairness, trust, and team well-being.
How to optimize shifts during a hiring freeze
Facing a hiring freeze? Learn how scheduling, 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-scheduling
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-scheduling in radiographers. Rosterlab was fortunate enough to support their research with our AI scheduling 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.
Scheduling 101: Understanding the Basics of Scheduling
New to scheduling or want to improve your existing schedule? This guide covers all the scheduling basics including key concepts, challenges & best practices.
The 4 levels of staff schedule optimization
An excellent schedule 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 optimization. Each level represents a more complex scheduling problem, allowing for more optimization possibilities and considerably more effort and skill to construct.