MyNextWeek

MyNextWeek is a scheduling and workforce management software designed to assist businesses in streamlining their scheduling processes, enhancing employee communication, and optimizing their workforce. According to the vendor, MyNextWeek is suitable for businesses of various sizes, including small startups to large enterprises, and caters to a wide range of professions and industries such as retail, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, and service industries.

Key Features

Take Total Control: According to the vendor, MyNextWeek offers a timeline-based editor that allows users to have complete control over their schedules. Users can easily create schedules, templates, and utilize undo/redo functionality. The vendor claims that using MyNextWeek can reduce the time spent on scheduling by up to 80%. Additionally, the software provides industry-leading schedule optimization features that aim to save businesses money and improve employee satisfaction.

Preferred by Everyone: The vendor states that MyNextWeek's scheduling algorithms prioritize scheduling employees during their preferred working times, aiming to reduce staff turnover and enhance employee satisfaction. The software ensures a balanced distribution of hours, compliance with labor laws, grouping of days off, minimizing travel time, and assigning employees with the appropriate skills for the job.

Vacation Planning: MyNextWeek provides a heat map of requested and approved vacation requests, facilitating managers in planning employee vacations. The software allows customization of leave categories, time banking with accruals based on time worked, and offers a manager approval workflow with push notifications. According to the vendor, MyNextWeek also maintains audit logs of requests and approvals.

Beautiful Mobile Apps: MyNextWeek offers mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms, enabling employees to access schedules, request time off, trade shifts, communicate with their team, receive updates, and clock in/out using their smartphones. Managers can create and edit schedules, approve time off and shift trades, manage employee accounts, and receive notifications for any necessary actions.

Time and Attendance: According to the vendor, MyNextWeek's time and attendance feature allows employees to conveniently clock in and out of shifts and breaks. The software employs facial recognition technology to verify employee presence, eliminating the need for PINs or swipe-cards.

Schedule Optimization: MyNextWeek's schedule optimization feature allows users to create and evaluate thousands of possible schedules within seconds. The software utilizes powerful algorithms to determine the best schedule based on various optimization goals, including employee availability, location and position affinity, weekly hours, preferred hours, shift gaps, continuous free time, travel time, and unassigned shifts.

Team Communication: MyNextWeek offers a real-time chat system for team communication, allowing users to create chat channels for each shift, leave request, and general conversations. The chat system supports manager log books, shift trade history, multi-step approval workflows, face verification records, and communication related to specific vacation requests.

Leave Management: MyNextWeek simplifies the process of requesting, reviewing, and approving time off. Employees can easily request time off from the web or their smartphones, and managers are immediately notified of the requests. The software tracks accruals for different leave types, provides customizable time-off policies, helps avoid understaffing, and facilitates communication between managers and employees.

Payroll: MyNextWeek's payroll system allows users to generate accurate reports by effectively dating employee compensation periods. The software supports various compensation scenarios, including hourly and salary employees, holiday pay, per diem, per shift pay, hourly rates based on position, time banks, daily and weekly overtime rates, special rates, per-shift bonus pay, and per-shift rate multiplier. The vendor also claims that MyNextWeek offers timesheet export to payroll, simplifying the process of creating payroll exports using accurate time and attendance data.