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Workforce Management Software

Software for building shift schedules, tracking time and attendance, and managing hourly or shift-based staff, for companies that need to match labour to demand.

20 businesses

hfx Absence Management

Letchworth Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Hfx has 50+ years' experience in workforce management and over 500 UK customers. We are the leading providers of next generation…

5.0 1 reviews

Synerion Agile

Southlake, Texas, United States

Synerion, a malam team company, helps thousands of businesses and millions of users manage employees time, scheduling, pto…

4.8 2 reviews

Deputy

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

At deputy, we’re on a mission to improve the world of work, one shift at a time. Deputy is the ultimate, all-in-one workforce…

4.6 215 reviews

Synel

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Synel americas is a world leader in the development and production of data collection systems and solutions for workforce…

4.6 7 reviews

Bizimply

Dublin, Ireland

Bizimply is built for shift-based teams, by people who know them inside out. Our founders went from running the “nude” café chain…

4.5 23 reviews

PARiM

London, England, United Kingdom

Parim is the leading professional staff management solution for hourly workers, used by more than 330,000+ users.

4.5 14 reviews Subscription

Legion WFM

Redwood City, California, United States

Legion technologies delivers the industry’s most innovative workforce management platform. It enables businesses to maximize…

4.4 15 reviews

When I Work

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

When I work is the market leader in shift-based workforce management software and delivers a powerful, employee-first experience…

4.4 267 reviews Per user

UniFocus

Eb, United Kingdom

Unifocus is the leading provider of workforce management and operations software tailored for the global hospitality industry…

4.0 3 reviews

Celayix

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Celayix has been providing the best-of-breed shift management solutions since 2000. As a leading provider of employee scheduling…

3.8 9 reviews

In October 2024, workforce software was acquired by adp, a global leader in human capital management, to enhance their global…

3.8 19 reviews

Workplace

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

In October 2024, workforce software was acquired by adp, a global leader in human capital management, to enhance their global…

3.8 19 reviews

SimplyWork

Neenah, Wisconsin, United States

Designed with simplicity in-mind, we provide a clean and efficient user experience. Our goal is to minimize training requirements…

2.5 1 reviews

chaseforce

Kundli, Haryana, India

Adm provides next-generation hrms and workforce management solutions, empowering businesses and redefining workforce mobility…

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EmpLive

Sydney Streets, Western Australia, Australia

Wfs: a workforce software company (wfs Australia) is making work easy for the connectedworkforce around the globe. We provide…

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Grosvenor Technology

Poole, England, United Kingdom

Grosvenor technology has been developing and manufacturing workforce management and access control solutions for organisations…

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Home Care Studio

Five Oak Green Tonbridge, United Kingdom

Easylog ltd is a computer software company located near tonbridge in kent, United Kingdom. We specialise in staff scheduling…

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LASSO

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Lasso is the all-in-one platform where event companies work. Built for event pros by event pros, lasso provides everything you…

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ShiftPro.io

Calgary

Shiftpro is an all-in-one workforce management platform that helps businesses create schedules faster, reduce labor costs, and…

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WorkforceOptimizer

Singapore, Singapore

Workforce optimizer develops, implements and support software solutions that allows enterprises to deploy and manage their…

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These businesses are hired to take the day-to-day mechanics of running a shift-based workforce off spreadsheets and whiteboards and put them into a system. That means building rotas or schedules against forecasted demand, letting staff view and swap shifts from a phone, capturing clock-in and clock-out times accurately, and feeding hours worked straight through to payroll. Once it's in place, a manager stops spending hours each week building next week's rota by hand, staff stop finding out about shift changes too late, and finance stops reconciling timesheets against what was actually paid out.

The people who go looking for this are usually running teams of hourly or shift-based staff — in retail, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, contact centres, manufacturing — and something in the current process has broken down. Rotas are built in spreadsheets and email, so cover gaps and clashes only surface once someone's already missed a shift. Overtime and understaffing both happen because nobody has a clear, current view of who's working and what demand looks like. Time and attendance is manual or paper-based, so payroll runs are slow and full of disputes. Or the business has grown across multiple sites and the ad hoc process that worked for one location has stopped working for ten.

Providers here split roughly by how much of the problem they take on and how big the workforce is. At the simpler end, tools focus on scheduling, shift swapping, time clocks, and basic compliance — built for small and mid-sized teams that need something usable on day one without much setup. Further up, you get workforce management suites that add demand forecasting, labour-rule enforcement across jurisdictions, and integration into existing HR, payroll, and ERP systems — aimed at larger, multi-site or multi-country employers where scheduling errors carry real cost. A smaller group specialises in one hard problem, such as forecasting and scheduling for contact centres or other high-variability shift environments.

When comparing them, look at how well they integrate with the payroll and HR systems you already run, whether scheduling is rule-based or genuinely forecast-driven, how they handle labour law and overtime rules in your specific region, the quality of the mobile experience your staff will actually use, and whether the vendor is set up for a single site or built to handle scale across many.

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