Timesheet scheduling software doesn’t exist
I’ve noticed one thing at every company I’ve worked at and every company someone I’ve known worked at was common: the person in charge of scheduling when workers worked hated it. They had to have information about when you’d not be available way ahead of time, and would even mess up schedules and have to issue corrections for people who were over/under scheduled afterward. This is bad.
I did some fruitless googling for [timesheet software] and [scheduling software], both of which turn up semi-relevant results. [timesheet software] gets mainly results for websites that are basically stopwatches for people who don’t know how to write down the time that’s on their watch, and not for creating future time sheets. [scheduling software] gets some of the previous stuff, plus stuff for scheduling appointments. This is frustrating.
What needs to exist (and I may eventually code and make tens of dollars from) is software that can do this:
- take ical files from subscriptions in, and assign them to users/people
- determine which is ‘busy’ time and thus should avoid scheduling the person for those hours, plus some buffer time for transport, this should be configurable based upon how long it takes the person to get there normally and optionally check the ‘location’ from the ical file, sort up a map, and add a 10% buffer or so for traffic depending upon time of day and average traffic
- also let users post ‘preferable’ days so that the persons hours will try to be scheduled those days
I am tired of seeing the errors. Also, this would end up great for people who want to organize meetings between friends, and meetings in the workplace too.
Seriously, this has to exist somewhere.
Edit: Meet-O-Matic is a good start.
Edit 2: I randomly ran across Visual Staff Scheduler Pro 10, which looks interesting. So maybe it does exist.
Edit 3: Found via Reddit: NeedtoMeet, and redditors suggested Doodle and WhenIsGood, none of which do the timesheet stuff, but do help with meeting scheduling.
