ADP ezLaborManager vs. Humanity vs. Shiftboard

Clocking in/out is easy on the multiple time punch options. Cleaning up punches is also easy when they need to be fixed due to power outages or internet outages. It also helps with approving time off requests by showing on a calendar anyone in that manager's team who might already have the day scheduled off.

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It's well suited for simple aggregate tracking of day to day, time for reps. It is not suitable if you want anything better than a 30K foot view. It's very high level but doesn't help you optimize.

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Shiftboard is very well suited for service industries—restaurants, hospitality, etc. In those workplaces, Shiftboard should have enough ability for customization, and its mobile accessibility should be advantageous. For TV and other production environments, particularly those with frequent schedule changes, Shiftboard does not work as well, as it requires too many clicks to change a schedule.

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• The interface of ADP ezLaborManager is simple to use, training only takes a couple of minutes for employees and a couple more for managers.
• Time off requests are simple to add to the system, review, and approve or deny. There is a space for comments so that managers and employees can communicate directly on the time off request.
• The employee and supervisor approval process confirms that the employees and managers agree on hours work to satisfy in errors in time before processing payroll.
• Importing ADP ezLaborManager to RUN Powered by ADP only takes a couple minutes allowing you to get started on processing your payroll in a fraction of the time compared to manual time cards.

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• Provide us with last-minutes schedule changes with notification to staff
• Scheduling of team
• Conflict-free schedules based on employee availability,

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• It shows the user exactly what time a meeting starts and ends.
• It shows the user exactly what time a break starts and ends.
• Searchable by group.

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• To cancel or delete a recurring schedule has too many steps for the managers to do so they ask me to do their updates for them.
• Having several places to make updates is good but also can be bad. When you call ADP, everyone you talk with does things the way they were taught which in turns is you get a different answer. Then you have to remember, how did they do that again?
• Sometimes less is more. If you update in one area, it does not cross over to another area that it may be tied to, then it's like you are doing double the work.

Incentivized

• Don't provide ANY way to optimize staffing
• We spent a LOT of time with them working on seeing queue availability for each rep. They tried but weren't completely sure what their product could or could not do. The effort was there, but if they had known their product better it would have been a quick 'no'.

Incentivized

• Shiftboard can be difficult to navigate, and when an agent bookmarks the tool it stays on their schedule for that specific date, often causing confusion. For example, mine is stuck on January 27th, 2017.
• It's difficult to get to your specific schedule.
• The overview of schedules within one week is also very difficult to read.

Incentivized

Still have some issues with it but usage seems to improve

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ADP is a good system to track information but, what it lacks is just some detail that provides time savings. Some instances they have made "updates" that tend to have been better previous to those "updates." One example is for staff to see how they have used their time off in the past. There should be an easy way to report and review such other than looking at pay periods. Pay statement and review and totals can also improve.

Incentivized

The support is not the best as they take much time to get back to you, days for some items as simple as a standard report. They do not know much about their own system I feel and it shows a lack of knowledge on their part. We have gotten wrong answers and it's not so user friendly.

I never sought out Shiftboard support.

Incentivized

The training provided was based on a generic database and reporting which made it difficult to compare when you had your own database to work at. It also didn't provide good written materials that would be useful after the training session. It was more geared towards the practice tests or applications within the training.

Incentivized

Should have had a project manager from ADP to assist.

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We use ADP Workforce Now for our U.S.-based employees and overall for reporting and information storing ADP is better. However, the customer service of ezLaborManager may be a little better. Also the sister program to process payroll at work is light years ahead of Workforce Now.

Maybe pricing was the issue, I was not involved in purchasing decision.

Incentivized

We have not used another product like Shiftboard at our company.

Incentivized

• ADP ezLaborManager saves time, as time sheets are all in the system and can be processed easily with payroll.
• Reporting makes it easy to look into any discrepancies related to time cards.
• The process of reconciliation of subcontractors' billing is easier.

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• It helps us track our work hours.
• It helps us coordinate team schedule.

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• Lower overtime costs.
• The ability to access schedules remotely.
• More flexibility in the scheduling process.

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