When I Work

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Es erleichtert die Schichtplanung und die Zeiterfassung, indem es eine recht benutzerfreundliche Plattform bietet, auf der die Mitarbeiter ihre Verfügbarkeit einsehen und Schichten flexibel verwalten können.

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Schwierig ist es, dass die App bei größeren Teams oder komplexeren Schichtplänen manchmal unübersichtlich werden kann, was die Verwaltung erschwert. Außerdem sind bestimmte erweiterte Funktionen nur in den kostenpflichtigen Versionen verfügbar, was zusätzliche Kosten für Unternehmen bedeutet.

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I found the program to be easy to use and it did everything we needed it to do.
I liked the feature that allowed associates to swap there shifts around without me to have constantly do it.

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If there is a con is was that it took a while to enter all the employees information. But once that was done it was a breeze.

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I loved how streamlined When I Work made scheduling!

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I didn't like how When I Work wasn't easy to condense all of my scheduling, work and personal. It would be kind of nice to have it all in one place to see scheduling conflicts when they arise.

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Time clock was very easy to navigate through.

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This is a very basic program and does not offer as much as other programs do.

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I think that When I Work has a very visually appealing and user-friendly app. It's clear and easy to see what shifts are available if someone is interested in picking one up. When I Work also sends helpful notifications to remind someone when their shift is that day.

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When you first open When I Work as a user, you're immediately on the "available shifts" tab. While this is a great method of trying to get staff to see what shifts are available to them for pickup, this setup leads to confusion. I would much prefer the main page on When I Work to show someone their current shifts, and the next tab over show them available shifts.

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It's simple and easy to use. Allows us to manage schedules for our range of staff

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It does not work for all of our staff. No automatic location login when on site. Schedules don't always appear in the app.

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Scheduling section is very easy to use and has several ways to view.

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I always wish it cost less for all of these things.

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Honestly I really liked the user friendliness of When I Work and the sales scheduling forecast

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Somewhat difficult to edit schedules once they've been posted

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Ease of posting a schedule with multiple days/months.

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Everything is very manual and there's no work around with specifics.

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Easy to download, and simple icon for home screen. The app also features built-in time clock functionality, making it easy to track work hours.

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It had several glitches that significantly impacted its usability. The Calendar feature could definitely benefit from some improvement.

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Ability to see who was working, and when.
Ability to message and swap shifts directly in the app.

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Difficult to customize availabilities on the app, works much better on desktop.

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I like the web based system. I love the instant changes are communicated. I love the color coding of roles and the budgeting features on the schedule.

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Reports are confusing. There should be more premade reports to choose from. I HATE that we can't report an absence without removing the employee from the schedule. When reported absent - the employees shift should be removed from the schedule as well as the labor hours.

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I love the ability to make changes right from the app on my phone. Also, to have the functionality to make adjustments as needed. The scheduler views and auto-assign feature has been a huge help to our organization. Also, the ability to put a begin and end date on availability requests. We tried 2 other scheduling systems and this one by far has been the most effective and easy to use for administrators and employees.

Nachteile

The cost is a little high and by paying on a yearly basis the discount isn't enough to really make a difference for paying in advance.

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The best part about using When I Work is that people can drop, pickup and reschedule their own shifts. If two people want to swap it's easy for them to do it themselves without having a manager intervene.

Nachteile

The part I like least about When I Work is the inability to save my filters or views. We have multiple retail locations and employees switch back and forth between locations so it is nice to be able to open When I Work and be shown the schedules for all locations right away, instead, every time I open the webpage it defaults to only showing me the people that are at the same physical location as myself and I have to go in and manually select the other locations for it to show up. It is at most a minor annoyance and not a deal breaker.

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I love When I Work because it saves me time doing payroll. It adds all my employees hours up for me and even takes off breaks, lunch and has GPS built in to make sure nobody's trying to clock in at home.

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The graphics could be a little better but the functions far out weigh the graphics by far.

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Everything is easy to use and schedule, everything being on one app and on the go is what we need in todays time being fast paced!

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Making sure I copy schedules and publishing instead of it doing that immediate.

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It is easy to sign up for and simple to manage. The cost is very low and usually has a free trial before you buy.

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The updates kept causing issues. Employees interface on a computer had to consistently be signed in again. The Kiosk feature needs improvement.

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Perfect for online scheduling. Compunction with other members very helpful

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Update email for all the new technology they add would be very useful

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I enjoy the simplicity in a software that is capable of achieving so many different things.

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The team communication aspect has quite a few bugs that do not seem to ever be fixed. Occasionally, messages and chats will disappear.

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I can see when other employees are working

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Sometimes wish I had a more condensed version of my schedule to view

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we purchased an existing business using this software so we kept it but i would not have chosen this software on my own because you can find better features for the same price with less restrictions.

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I was forced to source a competitor due to WhenIwork pricing. I found and switched to Homebase mostly because they offered payroll which wheniwork does not. The main reason i'm dissapointed with the software is that if you pay for the next month on the 3rd of the month and cancel on the 4th, you lose access immediately AND they provide no refunds. I can understand no refunds but if you subscribe to a software and your monthly billing is the 3rd of the month...you maintain that software until the 2nd of the following month. For that reason, i will make sure to take a few minutes of my day and spread the news to others looking for a scheduling app.

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Out of all scheduling apps I've used in multiple jobs, this one is by far the best.

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Some features that I WOULD use are paywalled behind other features/services that I have no interest in

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Extremely easy to use. Our team had no issues with it.

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Didn’t really have any issues with the software.

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I like the functionality and overall design.

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I like least the amount of glitching inside the app.

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I liked the app, works really well. I also liked the message board to make announcements and communicate to the team.

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The features seem a little archaic compared to a lot of the programs available today. Higher price points and lack of features when compared to similar options.

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User friendly, easy to read, great features not found anywhere else.

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Has everything I need and more. Wouldn’t change anything

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I really like the employee scheduling tools, easy to create employee schedules, with templates or past weeks, taking into account time off and availability requests. Also shift swapping on the mobile device give flexibility to the team

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I wish proving was per location instead of per employee. If you have a small location its in your favor, but works against you if you have a large headcount.

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Being able to access my schedule from my phone was super important. I remember working where schedules were posted on paper in the staff room. People would have to go in and either write down their shifts or put them into their phone manually. Thankfully, apps like When I Work have become much more popular and schedules can be sent to employees digitally. I appreciated how simple viewing and accessing schedules has been through When I Work. (It makes planning the rest of my life much easier!)

Nachteile

The interface of the app is not very visually appealing. It's simple, which is what some may need. But I really appreciate a visually appealing, well configured app.

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It allows you to set up a schedule and color code it however you need it to best view it. It has a message feature in the time off request so that there can be a history of a conversation about the request.

Nachteile

Manager time off requests are automatically approved instead of needing to be approved by another manager or at least approved after created. This means that someone who needs the Manager status to create the schedule but is not the overall supervisor in charge of scheduling can't use the time-off request function. Time off requests can't be changed, only deleted and re-added. Why? Everything is generally more complicated than other similar scheduling software. I cannot copy and paste a range of shifts only individual shifts. Each time there is an update to the schedule made by another person you have to reload the website, which generally loses what you were doing, but this also leads to issues where employees who have the website up and are working on their schedules will not know that there are changes being made to the schedules. So two people could be changing things at the same time.

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When I Work was an answered prayer for our personnel department. We recently underwent a large expansion that added several employees, contractors, and locations. By shifting to When I Work, we have been able to eliminate the need for a separate staff member to oversee employee attendance and productivity. Prior to implementing this, just checking in with each of our site managers took up most of the mornings. Now, within five minutes we are able to get a complete view of where our company assets are at any given time.

Nachteile

The only drawback we are facing has less to do with When I Work and more to do with the use of productivity software in general. We received some initial backlash from employees who felt we were being overbearing by not taking their word for hand written time sheets, time off requests, etc. However, the majority of our employees—including all of the “good ones”—have come to accept that this measure of accountability benefits not only the company but them personally.

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I loved I could find my paystubs, employee information and easy access to W2s

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I hated it didn’t let me save my password and I’m forgetful.

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I like the ease of scheduling (including copying schedules from one week to the next), as well as being able to view employee's time submitted and notices when there is overtime. I also appreciate the integration with Gusto, our payroll service.

Nachteile

Sometimes there is a lot of detritus and repeated shifts that shouldn't be.

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Clear and easy to use, much better interface than its competitors, easy to review timesheets and organize schedules. The colour-coding lets everyone see their own shifts at a glance, and managers can easily spot any gaps in the coverage.

Nachteile

When scheduling, repeating shifts can be a little clunky and isn't the best UI. But it's overall fine to set up a schedule with recurring shifts.

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The feature I like most about When I Work is the ability to view employees hours. Often times, as a manager, we are required to cut shifts or adjust schedules. The forecast tools and the option on scheduler allow us to make fair decisions.

Nachteile

My only complaint about When I work is the inability to publish schedules on the app version. I often have trouble and even though I click "publish" in the upper right corner - I do not see any notifications sent or publishing done. The website does not look appealing either on mobile safari app.

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The scheduling module had good templates and an easy setup for documenting pto

Nachteile

The platform was limited for employee documentation

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I liked when I worked for a business that you said for timekeeping that it was easy to trade usually.

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I personally think there were a lot of bugs with the app and the website which cause more than a few misunderstandings and payroll and it work situations.

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It reminds me of my shift that I like and it's easy to remember. If there are any changes to the information regarding the work, it notifies me quickly.

Nachteile

It frequently reminds me of something I don't like. Sometimes, if the owner doesn't change or remove me from a shift, it keeps emailing me about it.

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Easy app based program that is very user friendly

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This program has been easy to use. The feedback from the help has been good. May be nice to have settings that can be changed in part of the program and not other parts as we have several departments use it and it would be nice to be able to change things per deparment

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Very easy to navigate through the set up process, and easy overall use.

Nachteile

I still haven't had the chance to fully go through the whole program as of yet.

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I love When I Work and it's easy to follow app. All of the important things like schedules and taking shifts is easy to access and manage. It also has a team messenger so we can communicate on there.

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I do not have any cons about When I Work

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Easy to use. Simple to set up. Easy to see everyone at once

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No issue with When I work it is very easy to use

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Scheduling is easy and everyone can have access to it

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Employees are not able to clock in and out in the app which would make it easier.

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Initial set up of user profiles and templates for shifts is intuitive and quickly completed. The strategy behind setting up multiple schedules and how to incorporate tags vs user roles needed extra training by our sales representative. Once we understood the output of these variables, the set up continued to be admin friendly.

Nachteile

There is continued frustration with basic users receiving notifications to their mobile devices. Despite multiple attempts with the online customer service to resolve, some users still do not receive the notifications. This was a high-value variable anticipated by our team that continues to give frustration to some users.

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When I Work makes it easy to schedule around my available times. I can also pick up or drop shifts when I need to.

Nachteile

It seems like I get logged off too often. I want to stay logged in for easier access. I'd like to have the option to mark shifts I am interested in and get a text message if they become available. Maybe this exists, but I need a quick way to modify my notifications and receive alerts.

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Nice platform and set up. Easy to look at.

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Constantly signs out employees, so have to log back in frequently

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What I liked most about When I Work is that it's great for a start-up company.

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What I liked least about When I Work was that employees could go in and enter their own time worked.

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There are a lot of great features to assist with scheduling numerous part-time workers, but as a worker, the ease of choosing shifts once posted is what I like most. I also like that I can sync my shifts with my digital calendar.

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There isn't anything that I do not like about When I Work. In the two years I have been using this app, I haven't experienced any difficulties.

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It was very user friendly and allowed employees to make changes without supervisory intervention. It also allowed us to see all employees schedules which helped for special programs and all.

Nachteile

I really was happy with When I Work. I had no major issues. I would like to switch back.

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You can send all time.off requests and it goes to manager for approval

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You can't enter PTO thru this application

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it keeps the schedules for the job organized

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just the relatively long load times to open up the app