Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

You have nine employees, three overlapping time-off requests, and 20 shifts needing varying amounts of coverage. Even for the smallest of businesses, employee scheduling can feel like a decidedly less fun game of Tetris. It’s a game you can play with pen and paper — or even a trusty spreadsheet — but the right employee scheduling app can make things a whole lot easier.

Your best engineer books a week off. It turns out two other engineers took the same week off. You didn’t notice the problem until the Friday before, because the spreadsheet didn’t warn you. Spreadsheets weren’t built for PTO tracking. They break under accrual rules and edge cases. They don’t have automatic alerts. PTO tracking software, on the other hand, does the math for you.