Shiftlab 2024 Year in Review

Happy New Year to all our awesome customers, amazing colleagues, and friends! As we kick off this new year, we wanted to take a moment to look back at the new solutions we rolled out for telecom retailers in 2024. 

We've made big moves in simplifying compliance processes, cutting down on overtime and labor costs, and boosting the overall employee experience.

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Offer employees schedule flexibility and save managers time with Shift Swaps and Open Shifts

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Shift Swaps

Enable your retail staff to trade or pick up shifts from co-workers, all while following pre-set rules.

Our new shift swap functionality allows frontline retail staff to manage their schedules autonomously, giving up or picking up shifts from co-workers, all while following pre-determined parameters.

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Open Shifts

Fill a shift quickly when you are down a staff member! No more texts, calls and emails!

Simply pop an open shift into your location, share it with employees from other stores, and have someone grab it to help fulfil your staffing needs.

Simplify Compliance and Prevent Overtime

Strategic Scheduling

Create optimized schedules with a single click, ensuring you meet labor targets whitout overstepping overtime regulations.

Overtime Alerts (coming soon!)

Receive real-time notifications when employees are approaching overtime.

Smart Time Tacking

Keep track of your team’s time and attendance, reduce manual adjustments and avoid overtime.

Automated Compliance

Easily set and enforce break and overtime rules, ensuring adherence to local, state, and federal labor laws.

Comprehensive Reporting

Access a full suite of labor exception reporting and FSLA coverage.

Access Real-Time Store and Labor Data 

Store Pulse is a real-time performance dashboard enabling DMs and Store Managers to proactively monitor key operational trends.
  • Know the second a store is late to open
  • See trending OT in real-time
  • Keep an eye on missed breaks
  • Stay on top of labor budgets
 

Save on Labor Costs and Simplify Payroll

We've continued to innovate our Time Clock solution throughout 2024.
Features include:
  • Early Clock-In Prevention
  • Auto-Clock Out Reconciliation
  • PTO Management
  • Proper Cost Tracking
  • Early Break Return Prevention
  • Shift Approvals and Feedback
  • Biometrics and more!

Customer Spotlight

“Shiftlab is the first scheduling and time clock provider that combines a robust platform, rapid development and product improvements with tangible, measurable, hard-dollar ROI.

For a multi-location retail organization, their ability to automate and streamline timecard management is invaluable."

– Aaron Pyle, CFO, Connectivity Source


 

See how we can help transform your retail operations in 2025!

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Devin Shrake

Devin Shrake

Shiftlab Co-Founder and CEO Devin Shrake has deep roots in retail. He worked his way through college at one of the largest Verizon retailers in the US and later became their VP of Sales Operations. He experienced firsthand the pain of building schedules across multiple locations and the fact that existing solutions didn’t meet retailers' unique needs. Devin was so passionate about solving this challenge for retailers that he started Shiftlab in 2019. Devin specializes in writing on topics such as workforce strategy, AI enablement, sales operations and product and technology.

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