Notifying Employees

This feature is useful to send out notifications to employees via app. 

This new feature allows the scheduler to send notifications to one or more employees for various purposes. 

The feature can be found inside Schedule Xpress, under Schedule Tools.

The functionality differs depending on whether shifts have been selected in Schedule Xpress. Below are some scenarios when this feature can be used to send a notification to employees.

GENERAL NOTIFICATION - NO SHIFTS SELECTED

If no shifts are selected, the scheduler can send a notification about anything. For example, “Please enter your availability and Time off Requests for next month by end of this week.”

NOTIFY ABOUT OPEN SHIFTS

If Open shifts are selected, the scheduler can choose which group of employees to notify about the Open shifts based on pre-configured business rules. As long as the employee can do at least one of the open shifts, they will be advised about the shifts. The scheduler can add an appropriate message to the notification. For example, “If you are interested in working extra shifts, please let the scheduler know by Friday". The notification will include summary shift information.

NOTIFY ABOUT ASSIGNED SHIFTS

If assigned shifts are selected, the scheduler can send a notification to the assigned employees. For example, “Please report to the south entrance of the building 10 minutes before the shift start time to receive today’s post instructions”. The notification will include summary shift information.

What do your employees see?

Any notification sent to employees can be viewed by them in their Team Xpress app under Notifications area. To view notifications, click on bell icon at top of the app screen.