I did some research with my manager and he said this is a failing pilot. Other managers hate it. People got fired for no shows. You sound like a sales person for this company. Do you work for them. You seem to talk with the ceo often enough.This couldn't be further from the truth. They have a sreadsheet and at the stores that have it anywhere from 50 to 85 percent of stores use it. About 70 percent of posted shifts get filled.
It actually works great with mytime. Your HR, uses nytime to create an excel sheet of everyone's schedule and uploads that to branch it takes literally 3 minutes.
Yes once a shift is grabbed the HR has to manually key it in mytime but that s the only issue with it
I did some research with my manager and he said this is a failing pilot. Other managers hate it. People got fired for no shows. You sound like a sales person for this company. Do you work for them. You seem to talk with the ceo often enough.
If they allowed that and could handle paying different taxes that's a cool idea.Interesting. Branch Messenger is a Minneapolis startup that went came to prominence through the Techstars Retail Accelerator, whose primary sponsor is Target!
Also, I wonder if this particular feature is going to make its way into Target-world:
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What if stores from different municipalities start sharing TMs more regularly?
Has anyone that uses Branch found a way to swap shifts with someone with just both of you posting at the same time and claiming the posted shift right away? We have had Branch for a long time, but we could always just ask an ETL to swap a shift between two people manually and they would take care of it. Now everything *has* to be done through Branch and some of the TMs are struggling to figure it out. There really is no *swap* option of any kind, is there? Other than, as I said, standing next to the person you are swapping with and doing it at exactly the same time so no one else swipes the shift(s)?
I mean, they want us to move fast and be nimble to make all these changes...... Why are they dragging there feet..... LOLcan they hurry up and roll this out
Yeah seriously. Quick to "usher in" this fucking end to end bullshit, but something beneficial to workers like this and the new equipment (Zebras), yeah THIS you take your sweet ass time with!! 😡😡can they hurry up and roll this out
Yes ... forgot to mention that. I get a ping on my phone a few hours prior to my scheduled shift. Definitely useful for those Branch users that NCNS then say "I had a shift??"Sadly I am at a store that doesn't use it for now. Miss it dearly.
It was a NCNS killer since it sent you a phone notification when you had a shift.
And that is what this is 'supposed to' endI'm not in HR, but I know that there are only select people my store even calls in. Sometimes they've called me and I've said no and then they've stopped calling people. Had a coworker who was willing to pick up shifts but they never called her in.
which sounds like what happened with the stores its not really working at.In case any of you were wondering, it is possible to use branch even if you aren't a pilot store. All you need is an HR to download it and load everyone's schedule and start signing up.
The only difference is the pilot stores have a tablet that allows those without the app or a smartphone to post or grab shifts while they work..
I have learned in over 20 yrs of retail that some people call something a failure when it takes too much control away from them. Remember some ETLs etc are smart enough to realize that this will bypass their preferential list of TMs.I did some research with my manager and he said this is a failing pilot. Other managers hate it. People got fired for no shows. You sound like a sales person for this company. Do you work for them. You seem to talk with the ceo often enough.
Also if people get fired for no shows and the system shows they swapped thats grounds for unemployment. In certain states thats slam dunk. You know who gets their ass chewed for that? HRI did some research with my manager and he said this is a failing pilot. Other managers hate it. People got fired for no shows. You sound like a sales person for this company. Do you work for them. You seem to talk with the ceo often enough.