Startup Idea: Automated Employee Scheduling Software for Event Coordinators

Startup idea to develop an advanced scheduling software to assist event coordinators in creating employee schedules. The software should be able to store employee information, personal schedules, and preferences, enable rule-sets changing, and generate a two week schedule reflecting all these parameters.

In my work as an Event Coordinator, part of my job was to make schedules for a 15 person work force with sensitivity to time-off requests, full-time or part-time hours, and general availability.

What I had hoped to find was a software that would allow me to do the following:

1. Store employee information as a sort of profile or set of values that would indicate important characteristics for scheduling

2. Create rule-sets that could be easily changed according to our offices needs (e.g. if a set of two weeks is going to heavy or light, or if some days start earlier or end later than others.)

3. Generate a two week schedule in relation to all of these values. I attempted to find scheduling software for this solution but was not able to find one that did exactly what I was looking for. I had been recommended "WhenIWork," which seemed to be the most popular, but it did not generate schedules with the sensitivity that our office requires.

Submitter: Joey; (view contact info)