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Operational excellence and providing tip-top customer service are some of the top priorities by many companies and businesses. With rapid globalization, a company's top and bottom-line are of utmost importance to the decision makers. Because of this reason, both tangible and intangible resources must be used as efficiently as possible. 

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WorkforceOptimizer dynamically redeploy workforce based on unplanned events (sick leave, workload fluctuations) in real-time.

As noted by Computers & Mathematics With Application, dynamic rescheduling is a key component for work performance guarantees in the case of distributed applications running in large scale heterogeneous environments.

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Workforce scheduling is one of the most important elements of workforce management strategy. As easy as it may seems to be, however, it is not. Most HR personnel are still having a lot of problems with optimizing staffing and employee roster planning, allocation of work resources. 

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Workforce scheduling, or manpower planning, is a combination of arts and science. At its core, its main objective is to have the correct number of staff coupled with their best and optimized skill sets. Marrying the two mentioned with the correct timing, its purpose is to meet predicted and forecasted work for all levels available. And by the word "Optimized", all of these tasks should be completed with the minimal resources invested. 

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"Employee scheduling automates the process of creating and maintaining a schedule. Automating the scheduling of employees increases productivity and makes many secretarial and manual scheduling positions obsolete".

Such solution usually tracks vacation time, sick time, compensation time, and alert when there are conflicts. As scheduling data is accumulated over time, it may be extracted for payroll or to analyse past activity.

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Yes! You finally hired the correct person for their dream job. How about giving them what is required to start on the job effectively?

In today's competitive business world, it is important to provide every staff the correct tool to ensure maximum productivity. By the moniker of "tool", our article here today refers to proper and systematic planning of staff timetable. This explains the importance of workforce scheduling and how it comes into play in a high performing organization.  

In a light-hearted manner to kick-start your week, learn the importance of workforce scheduling via the entertaining comic strips: 

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 “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” – Oscar Wilde. The famous playwright and cultural commentator was quoted making this comment in the late 19th century, at a time where the world was busy dealing with the technological advancements of the first Industrial Revolution.

Today as the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 sweeps us up, "expect the unexpected" continues to be one of the drivers of modern intellect.

However, despite being a concept that has been around for a long time, many organizations still struggle to realize, leverage, or exploit the benefits of today’s concept of “expect the unexpected” – through the form of predictive workload or predictive analytics.

Besides the obvious benefit of keeping your organization ‘smart’, here are 4 vital benefits of having predictive workload for your organization.