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You may love it, you may hate it. You may have bagged a bargain you didn’t even know you wanted. Either way, you can’t argue that since its full-scale introduction to the UK in 2013, Black Friday has marked the start of the busy festive shopping season. Records tumble each year. Christmas presents (pun intended) the […]

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You may love it, you may hate it. You may have bagged a bargain you didn’t even know you wanted. Either way, you can’t argue that since its full-scale introduction to the UK in 2013, Black Friday has marked the start of the busy festive shopping season.

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Records tumble each year. Christmas presents (pun intended) the biggest opportunity in the business calendar. That said, it’s not all good news…

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Being understaffed means missing out on sales…

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Increased customer demand. Longer opening hours. Larger workforces. Staff wanting more time off.

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These all conspire to make the usual headaches of handling rotas and managing staff that bit harder. Getting it wrong means missed sales, slow service and unhappy customers. Not what we want.

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But Rotaready’s clients are in the best place possible for making the most of the busy season.

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Of course, it’s not only retailers who experience a busy Christmas period…

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The NHS faces massive demand in winter…

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Every winter the demands on our hospitals grow. Much of the strain is due to the flu / norovirus season as the weather gets colder (we’re not looking forward to that). A&E admissions are usually higher too (perhaps due to some of the more, erm, exciting office parties).

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New Year’s resolutions…

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You get the idea. Bars, pubs, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, theatres – demand booms everywhere. It keeps on going into the New Year, with the January sales, refunds to process, gift vouchers to be used and so on. And after all the excesses, gyms and leisure centres get a tidal wave of interest as people pin their New Year’s resolution to a subscription.

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No matter what industry you’re in, Rotaready has the tools to help.

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1. Managing larger workforces

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2. Seasonal working patterns

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3. Scheduling to meet forecasted demand

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What’s the Christmas season like at your place of work? Let us know how it’s looking for you.

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Time & attendance (“T&A”) – capturing and processing staff clock ins and outs – has been one of our most in-demand features in recent months. In this article I’ll take you through the importance of getting T&A right, how we selected our approach, and why T&A’s real value lies in integration with the other facets of workforce […]

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If you use Elastic Beanstalk to run and manage your web apps, at some point you’ll want to setup some scheduled tasks, or cronjobs. Today’s blog post aims to take you through the best way of achieving this, whether you’re running in single instance mode, or load balancing.

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