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Four Methods of Time Collection for Your Organization No two businesses are identical in the way they operate. As a result, there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to employee scheduling software, and in particular,...

As of 2018, over sixty percent of the workforce in the US gets paid on an hourly wage. Essentially, the engine that runs the country is made up of hourly workers – from security guards...

The security guard industry is rapidly changing due to technological innovation. The shift to new technology is leading to changes at the workforce level as well as on customer’s expectations. This blog will look at...

Author: Gurmit Dhaliwal, CEO For many companies, gone are the days where employees are given verbal or paper schedules and told to simply show up for their shift. Some companies opt to gather employee availability...

Trust but Verify Author: Gurmit Dhaliwal, CEO For most businesses, managing the attendance of your workforce can be challenging. Everything from knowing when an employee has come in to start their shift, to when they...

Does Santa Use Celayix?   These questions are not new: How does Santa build all those toys? How does he deliver all of them in one night? One newer question that has recently come to...

Celayix Releases Software Update 8.0.5 In our continued goal to deliver value to our customers, Celayix Software is proud to announce the release of software update 8.0.5 now available to all current customers. The focus...

How are you collecting employee time at your business these days? Maybe you are tracking time using pen and paper, or an old style punch clock system. Either way, you surely understand that the manual...

Predictive Scheduling Legislation Arrives Pay attention to this one, business owners! Predictive scheduling legislation may impact you, and if you don’t comply you face very real financial penalties. One key requirement of the predictive scheduling...

Account For Availability Scheduling shifts around employee availability is a challenge. You try to build the schedule in a fair manner that supports the needs of your business. However, what invariably happens is that as...

How Celayix Works With Other Workforce Management Tools What do companies do if their corporate office has selected a solution that is more general and doesn’t fit their scheduling needs? No matter what city you’re...

Geofencing, GPS, & Location Tracking Running a business is difficult, but running a business where your employees work remotely can add a special layer of complexity. Scheduling and remotely monitoring these employees only ups the...

Like many things in life, the software development process is an art form which balances various conflicting priorities, resources, and time-lines. Everywhere from the highest levels of government, through business, art, and sport, and right...

Today’s world is constantly on the go, and many businesses run 24/7.  In this type of competitive environment, you need something that separates you from the competition. There is a requirement for many businesses to...

One of the biggest scheduling complications in any industry revolves around how to manage scheduling changes. This can be anything from a client calling in to cancel an event, order, or service, to a change...

An essential part of producing staff scheduling software is quality assurance. That means to say that software companies must assure themselves that their scheduling software has an acceptable level of bugs before releasing it. Companies...

OK, so you’ve got a great scheduling system, a fantastically skilled and motivated workforce, and enough business to keep everyone busy for a long time. Now, how do you get the word out that a...

Celayix’s Labor Forecasting Tool In previous blog posts, we have detailed our progress in our Labor Forecasting tool. This tool has features that allow users to create events that will create batches of shifts depending...

In the past, we wrote about how we are migrating our software from a desktop interface to a web interface. We are also migrating our technology from Celayix-hosted computing to cloud computing. What is “The...

Scheduling In The 21st Century Is Mobile & Flexible Today’s world is constantly on the go, and many businesses run 24/7.  In this type of competitive environment, and the expectation for many businesses to manage...

WHAT IS PBJ? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon be requiring all nursing facilities to submit staffing information electronically. The CMS has instituted a system for providers to electronically submit their...

An advanced employee scheduling software, such as Celayix eTime Xpress, addresses many of the challenges and complexities of scheduling employees, fulfilling client contracts, reducing labor costs, and optimizing resources. Quick and powerful tools allow schedulers...

Will Mobile Device Usage One Day Dominate? The desktop – laptop – mobile device trinity has been a common sight at school and in the workplace for the past decade. A person may have a...

What Are Workflows? A workflow, in simplest terms, is a series of steps which must be followed in a particular order so that an objective is met. There are many workflows in any organization, and...

This is the part 3 in a series of occasional blogs about features of eTime Xpress that are worth exploring. We’ve covered Autofill Rotation and Schedule Templates previously, and this post covers our Shift Toolbox....

The Importance of Good UI One of the most challenging and deep-influencing tasks in today’s applications is to improve user interaction. When we say improve, we mean simplify. A wise man once said: “If you...

Predictive Scheduling Laws Oregon’s proposed “predictive scheduling law” is currently at the epicenter of the workers’ rights movement. The goal of this is to allow workers to have a more stable and predictable work schedule....

Hospitality Scheduling Event Templates In a previous blog post, we talked about our pending Event Templates feature and how it can be used in the Hospitality industry. This feature has just been released with our...

Celayix is Automating Attendance Matching One of the tasks that someone at your company will need to do for payroll and billing is calculating the hours that employees have worked. This usually involves reviewing the...

What is Buddy Punching? Buddy punching is a time & wage theft that is common among hourly workers. An employee gets another employee to punch the time clock for him (or her) because they are...

What Is A Schedule Template? In a nutshell, a schedule template is a way of re-using the current schedule at any time in the future. Setting one up that you can reuse in the future...

In this day and age, the demands from customers is ever changing, therefore you want a software suite that can adapt to your business needs quickly and easily. We believe that our range of products...

Employee scheduling can be a complex and time-consuming process. The schedule has to satisfy multiple requirements and finding a good solution is challenging. Generic scheduling solutions for tasks such as employee rotations, site coverage, and forecast...