The City of Los Angeles recently implemented the Retail Fair Work Week Ordinance, which aims to provide stability and predictability to retail employees. As a retail business owner, it’s essential to adapt to these changes and maintain compliance with the new law. This blog post will discuss the ordinance’s key provisions and how Snap Schedule…
With the July 27, 2022 refresh, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revised its methodology for calculating the staffing rating for long-term care facilities. In addition to existing staffing measures for registered nurses (RN) and total nurse hours per resident per day, the new staffing domain rating methodology includes four new measures: Total nurse…
Public utilities play a vital role in the daily lives of millions of people. From electricity and water to natural gas and telecommunications, these essential services require skilled crews to maintain, repair, and upgrade infrastructure. As a critical component of the industry, effective crew callout procedures are essential to ensure the timely deployment of these…
How it works: Schedulers enter user name and passwords to log into Snap Schedule 365, while employees use employee codes and passwords. However, your company policies may require these users to log in from your organization instead of directly into Snap Schedule 365. Therefore, you can utilize Single Sign On (SSO) to authenticate schedulers and employees using…
In 2020, Deloitte analyzed global trends in human capital and found that 39% of the companies surveyed increased flexibility and predictability in scheduling. How you schedule employees matters and now, more than ever, companies are taking steps to enhance employee well-being. But what exactly does it mean to make your schedules more flexible and more…
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a lot of uncertainty and change for business and individuals. Employees are looking for additional control over their schedules and transparency into shifts now more than ever. By automating your scheduling practices, you can streamline your call-out process, stay compliant with union rules and labor regulations, and give employees…
The Continental shift schedule is a fast rotating shift pattern that uses 4 teams and three 8-hr shifts to provide 24/7 coverage. Each team rotates through a sequence of 2, 2, and 3 consecutive day shifts, swing shifts, night shifts, or days off. The following is a typical team schedule for a 4-week (28 days)…
The developers at Snap Schedule never seem to run out ways to improve scheduling software. But this time, when thinking of new ideas, they looked to the customers for inspiration. Apparently, some people felt the user experience could be smoother and suggested adding few small tools to the Task View screens. Snap’s developers listened, and…
There are few administrative chores that take the wind out of your sails as fast as processing the payroll. Second only to employee scheduling, payroll is a tedious and time-consuming task. Often times, the simple concept of counting hours, calculating earnings and paying your employees gets bogged down with verifying and reconciling figures. And that’s…
In the North America, at least, we all lost an hour of sleep this weekend as we started Daylight Saving Time. Moving those clock hands forward isn’t always the easiest thing to do, and it makes for a difficult Monday morning. In honor of the lost hour, the development team at Snap Schedule is excited…
