How to Know If Your Staff Confirmed Their Shift
You publish the schedule Monday. By Thursday you're still not sure who's actually working Saturday. You text ten people. Six reply. Four don't. You don't know if they saw it, forgot, or are ignoring you.
The problem isn't the schedule. It's that you have no single place that says who said yes and who didn't.
Why You Can't Rely on Texts or Paper
When the schedule lives on a wall, in a group chat, or in a shared doc, "confirming" means you texting everyone or them telling you in person. There's no list. No deadline. No way to see at a glance who has and who hasn't confirmed.
So you chase. You text. You call. You wait. Half the people don't reply. By the time you find out someone can't work, it's too late to find coverage without a scramble.
What "Confirmed" Should Mean
Each employee sees their shifts in one place (an app or the web). They tap "confirm" or "can't make it." You open the same place and see one list: Sarah confirmed. John confirmed. Mike not confirmed yet. Lisa can't make it.
You set a deadline (e.g. Thursday 6pm for Saturday shifts). After that, you know exactly who to chase. You don't text everyone. You text the two people who haven't confirmed.
Why a Deadline Matters
Without a deadline, people confirm when they feel like it. Or they don't. You find out who's not coming when they don't show up.
With a deadline, you know by Thursday who hasn't confirmed for Saturday. You text those people. One confirms. One says they can't work. You have two days to find coverage. No Saturday-at-5pm panic.
What You Get
One list. Who confirmed, who didn't, who said they can't make it. A deadline you set per team. No more guessing. No more texting twelve people to ask if they're working.
You still have to find coverage when someone can't work. But you find out in time to do it without a scramble.
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