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Build smarter shifts keep every location covered

Plan and manage employee shifts with ease across teams, departments, and locations. Timelabs helps you create rosters, assign shifts, manage schedule changes, and keep your workforce aligned with business requirements.

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Put the right people on
the right shift

Managing changing schedules across teams and locations can quickly become complex. Timelabs gives HR and managers a centralized way to plan shifts, assign employees, and maintain accurate rosters without relying on spreadsheets.

Flexible shift planning

Create shift schedules based on your business hours, workforce requirements, departments, and locations.

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Faster shift assignment

Assign shifts to individual employees or groups and make schedule changes without rebuilding the entire roster.

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Centralized roster management

Create and manage employee rosters from one place, giving HR and managers clear visibility of scheduled shifts.

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Multi-Location Scheduling

Manage employee shifts across branches, offices, plants, and other work locations from a centralized system.

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Connect shift planning with everyday HR operations

Timelabs connects shift schedules with the workforce processes that depend on them, helping organizations maintain consistency from scheduling to attendance and payroll.

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Attendance

Connect employee schedules with attendance to accurately identify working hours, late arrivals, and attendance exceptions.

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Overtime

Use scheduled working hours as a foundation for managing overtime according to organizational policies.

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Leave Management

Coordinate employee leave with shift schedules to maintain better workforce visibility and planning.

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Payroll

Connect shift and attendance information with payroll processes for more accurate workforce calculations.

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Keep every schedule controlled and accountable

Give the right users the right level of access while maintaining better control over shift creation, assignment, and changes.

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Role-based access

Control access to shift schedules based on employee roles and responsibilities.

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Controlled schedule changes

Manage who can create, modify, or update employee shifts.

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Approval workflows

Support approval-based shift changes wherever your organization requires additional control.

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Everything you need to manage employee shifts

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Shift pattern management

Create and manage different shift patterns based on your organization's working requirements.

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Employee shift assignment

Assign shifts to individual employees, teams, departments, or employee groups.

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Daily, weekly & monthly rosters

Plan employee schedules across different time periods and maintain organized workforce rosters.

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Bulk shift scheduling

Assign or update shifts for multiple employees at once to reduce repetitive administrative work.

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Excel roster import

Import existing employee rosters through Excel and simplify bulk scheduling.

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Shift changes & re-scheduling

Make quick schedule changes when employee availability or operational requirements change.

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Complete visibility into your workforce schedule

Get a centralized view of employee shifts and rosters so HR and managers can quickly understand who is scheduled, where they are working, and when they are expected to work.

  • View employee shift schedules
  • Access daily, weekly, and monthly rosters
  • Monitor workforce coverage across locations
  • Make quick schedule updates when requirements change
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One shift management system for every location

Manage workforce schedules across branches, offices, plants, sites, and multiple operational locations from one centralized platform.

Multi-shift operations

Run payroll across countries where you have legal entities while maintaining centralized visibility, standardized processes, and shared employee data.

Employer of record (EOR)

Manage different shift patterns and working schedules across teams.

Centralized workforce planning

Keep workforce schedules organized and accessible through one system.

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FAQs

Shift management software helps organizations create, assign, monitor and manage employee work schedules and shift policies.

Yes. Timelabs supports organizations with multiple shifts and workforce schedules.

Yes. Shift definitions can be used with attendance policies to evaluate employee working patterns.

Yes. Relevant shift and attendance information can flow into payroll workflows where configured.

Authorized users can manage employee shift assignments according to organizational permissions.

Yes. Shift configurations can support organizations that operate rotating or variable schedules.

Yes. Organizations can manage workforce schedules across locations and teams.

Employee-facing access can provide visibility into applicable schedules and workforce information.

Shift and attendance policies can be used to identify working-time conditions relevant to overtime processing.

Yes. Workforce and attendance reporting can provide visibility into schedules and related attendance information.

Centralized schedules, configurable rules and connected attendance workflows reduce spreadsheet-based scheduling work.

Manufacturing, healthcare, retail, security, BPO and other shift-based organizations can benefit from structured shift management.
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