Stay In Business by Knowing Labor Costs Before Payroll Time

      Many small businesses create employee schedules using a simple spreadsheet or pencil and paper waiting until payroll time to calculate labor costs. Using an employee scheduling system helps prevent surprises buy calculating daily, per employee and total costs as the schedule is being created. 

　　Calculate Employee Schedule Labor Costs

　　Calculate labor costs as employee schedules are created and edited at schedule-my-employees.com

　　ChinaHRP.com SANTA ANA, CA, December 23, 2008 -- When a small business schedules employees, the tedious task of calculating the cost of labor is often put aside until payroll time. This can lead to surprises and the dreaded cash crunch when it is time to cut the paychecks. While big businesses use sophisticated human resource planning and management systems (HRMS), small business does not have the time and resources to implement these complex systems.

　　Small businesses should look to a simple scheduling system that will work in a similar fashion to the spreadsheet or pencil and paper methods currently used, but offers features enabling agile and accurate scheduling of employees. One such system is schedule-my-employees.com. Schedule-my-employees.com works much like a spreadsheet, create a schedule, add employees, and enter their hours. But unlike a simple spreadsheet, schedule-my-employees.com calculates labor costs and adds a number of tools and features not available in a spreadsheet or handwritten schedule.

　　"Labor is our biggest expense," says Mark Holcomb Operations Manager of Taste Catering. "In addition our schedules are constantly changing; schedule-my-employees.com displays updated labor costs as we create and tweak employee schedules helping us compete in a very competitive industry."

　　When a small business knows the cost of labor before posting the schedule, it much easier to make needed adjustments to bring labor costs inline with a business's financial situation. In addition, labor cost information can be passed in advance to the bookkeeper, preventing surprise cash crunches.

　　About schedule-my-employees.com:

　　With a number of restaurants and donut shops in the family, and clients with service businesses, IT consultant Walter Spurgiasz saw the need for an easy to use employee scheduling tool. Designed to be an easy transition from spreadsheet or pencil and paper style schedules currently used by many small business, schedule-my-employees.com enables small business with a host of new features including publishing employees schedules on the web behind a view code, broadcasting schedules to employees with an e-mail address and easy updating of schedules via the internet.