Holiday Cheer Without the Headache: A Guide to Smooth Leave Management
43% of UK businesses experience staffing shortages during the festive season. Navigate the …
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Navigating the World of Zero-Hours Contracts in UK: A Comprehensive Guide
A recent survey from ACAS concluded that 3 in 5 workers in the UK were unaware of zero-hours …
UK’s Flexible Working Act 2023: FAQs for Employers and Employees
Enacted in July 2023, this law aims to promote flexible working arrangements, empowering …
The Workers (Predictable Terms & Conditions) Bill : Know Your Rights!
This law is a significant step forward for workers' rights in the UK. It gives workers more …
The High Price of Bad Rota & Rota Mismanagement (from profits to pitfall)
Spreadsheet rota scheduling, discontent in rota workers due to inflexible rota costs a lot …
Optimising Hospitality Workforce Allocation with Effective Rota Scheduling
Reduce time to rota by 37%. Bring balance & harmony to rota workers. Deliver exceptional …
How Retail Shift Planning Software Helps the Dynamic & Modern Retail Workforce
Both large and small retail organisations have complex scheduling needs. Week after week, …
Guide to Work Rota Laws & Labour Compliance in the UK for Small Businesses
Rota disputes and settlements are a part of a rota manager's job now. How do you keep up …
Rota Planning Guide for a Downtime Proof Manufacturing Business
Neglecting order fulfilment in any manufacturing business can incur issues. Here is how you …
Over 70% Burnout in Healthcare Staff (begin wellness with scheduling)
12 million workers in UK face work burnout. Healthcare workers are the highest affected. …
Effective Rota Scheduling in Care Homes (& reduce staffing costs)
You'll need care workers, registered nurses, healthcare professionals, skilled coordinators …
Does the New ‘Fit Notes Law’ Affect Staff Leave Policy in UK?
The new law brings the introduction of digital fit notes in April (2022). So, how does this …
Manage & Schedule Temporary Staff for Christmas Sales (with predictive rota)
Staffing & rota planning doubles in size over Christmas, thereby your scheduling headaches. …
Erostering & Shift Planning for Remote Workers (by avoiding the rota crimes)
Remote working is fun for workers but not for rota supervisors & managers. Let's make rota …
Rota Scheduling Done Right in a Hospitality Business (without spreadsheets)
Spreadsheet rota planning for hospitality costs 17% more. Get 24/7 shift coverage with flexible …
Rota, Timesheet & Payroll Management for Part-Time Employees
Build an effective part-time employee scheduling model & track time. Best practices & common …
Plan employee rota scheduling during a mandatory downtime like a boss!
Mandatory downtime periods include breaks during the working day, breaks between working …
No Excuses! How To Increase Employee Attendance With Online Tools?
To start managing employee attendance, a company will need to set up a structure for measuring …
The Shift Manager’s Guide to Handling Rota Stress for Employees
For many, shift work leads to chronic levels of fatigue due to poor sleep cycles. The research …
HR Compliances Small Business Owners Should Know to Avoid Huge Financial Loss in UK
Laws made easy for business owners. Let's educate you on working hours act, discrimination …
How to Motivate Employees to Track Time (and get back to the beach early)
78% staff belive tracking time penalises them. Understand why employees resist logging time? …
Joy of an Employee & Concerns of an Employer – Flexible Working Policy
63% staff prefer flexible working over perks or a pay rise. It makes sense to publish a healthy …
Automatic Rota Scheduling Loved by Rota Managers
One-click rota automation. Autofill employees with needed skill and availability into rota …
Simplest Guide for Payroll in Small & Medium Businesses
All employers must report their PAYE information to HMRC in real-time. This is known as Real …
4 Day Working Week in UK – Is it the Future of Work?
Early research from Iceland between 2015-2019 found employees to be in favour of the four-day …
Heard of ‘Just-in-time’ Predictive Scheduling Practice?
Predictive scheduling is the process of giving out employee schedules ahead of time. It is …
How to Manage Leave Requests ‘Fairly’ in the Workplace
Almost all workers have the statutory right to 5.6 weeks of paid leave each calendar year. …
Timesheet Benefits every Business Owner Must Know
How do you implement good employee time tracking in the modern world where the workforce …
7 Ways to Meet Holiday Demand & Rota Staffing in Retail
17% of retails suffer from less staff during peak business hours and holidays. Help your …
Best Practices to Eliminate ‘Missed Shift’ or ‘No Call No Shows’
18% of employees miss a shift. Eliminate missed shifts to help your business cover the losses. …
Simple Guide for Holiday Staffing & Rota Planning in Restaurants
37% of restaurants suffer from less staff during peak business hours and holidays. Help your …
Employee Scheduling Guide for all SMEs and Rota Managers
Does your scheduling plan give you stress and pressure on your team? Well, we have compiled …
PTO – Guide for Paid Time Off & Statutory Eligibility
Paid time off is exactly what it sounds like: time away from work. During this time, an employee …
Top 7 Benefits of Timekeeping for Owners & Employees
For a business, it is vital to monitor the number of hours worked by an employee. Without …
Working Hours & Break Laws in UK every Owner & Employee should be aware of!
30 mins after 6 hours and 45 minutes after 9 hours of uninterrupted work are the official …
5 reasons why timesheet is important for Small & Medium businesses?
Timesheets are incredibly important to most businesses. We hope this guide has helped you …
Holiday entitlement – the law, rights & FAQs answered for every employee
All employees have a right to receive paid holiday regardless of their contract type. This …
Using Excel is not Cheaper than a Rota Software. Here are 9 Reasons.
Excel rota templates are a lot cheaper than software. If this is what you believe, we'd like …
Work Rota Laws in UK that an Owner & Employee Should be Aware Of !!
Understanding the work rota laws in the UK can be confusing. We have compiled the basic laws …
Top 4 questions on Zero-hour contracts answered
In essence, zero-hour contract is between an employer & a worker. Wherein, the employer is …
Common Shift Planning Mistakes by Rota Planners & How to Avoid them
On average, a rota planner spends 10 to 15 hours a week to plan shifts with redundant tools. …
Papershift’s COVID response for our Employees & Customers
Papershift’s COVID response was helped thanks to our ‘Digital DNA’. At …
Guide to Planning Staff Vacation & Absence without affecting Team Performance
The sickness absence in the UK for the year 2018 was reported at a loss of 141 million days. …
Guide to introducing ‘Digital Time Tracking’ for your organization
Most organizations manage time tracking as a ritual. The time tracking exercise offers a …
Shift planning, time tracking for remote work & home office
Guide to remote time tracking for teams in home office Undeniably, the...
GPS for employee time tracking? Watch out for these common pitfalls!
Employee's time tracking needs accuracy and not complexity. GPS only adds to the complexity …
What made us take this decision after our participation in Events?
What do you think kept us during the good part of September...
Game of ‘Shifts’ | #4 – Employee time tracking
If you haven’t read the previous part in this series, then head...
Game of ‘Shifts’ | #3 – Absence & vacation management
You did not get into the business of managing employee absences. But we did. Here is a simple …
Game of ‘Shifts’ | #2 – Assigning shifts and the magic wand
If you haven’t read the first part in this series, then head...
Game of ‘Shifts’ | #1 – Creating shifts in simple steps
Papershift makes shift planning simple and done within seconds. Do you have to...
Which Papershift package is rightly suited for you? FAQ on Pricing inside.
Every aspect is transparently communicated to help you understand what value our software …
Are you choosing the right shift planning software for your team?
We understand your concern in choosing the best shift planning software for your team. It …
5 secrets, successful HR teams share about Digital time clock
Here we present 5 secrets successful HR teams share on 'Why a digital time clock is a better …
Employee time tracking the way you want it to work. Check your options.
36% of businesses leak revenues due to poor time tracking. Timesheet management is easy & …
