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Rate your shifts
Updated onArticleWhen enabled, shift ratings are a quick and easy way for your managers to get an idea of how good the schedule was so that they can make the best schedules possible in the future. Shift ratings also help the TimeForge AutoScheduler better understand which schedules work best for employees, so that TimeForge can build them even better schedules.
The goal of every schedule is to make everyone happy – happy managers, happy employees, and happy customers. Be sure to rate all of your shifts so your managers know how you feel.
Employee Guide Schedules & Time Cards
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Import your schedule into Google Calendar
Updated onArticleHere are some quick and easy steps for importing your schedule into your Google Calendar.
Employee Guide Schedules & Time Cards
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Pick up a transfer bid shift
Updated onArticleTransfer Bid Shifts are just like normal bid shifts, except they're shared across store locations. They must be enabled by management and scheduled by a manger in order to be available to pick up. When you pick up a transfer bid shift, you follow the normal rules for bid shifts and shift swaps as set by your management, who may require the pick up to be approved before you are responsible for working the shift.
Employee Guide Schedules & Time Cards
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Pick up a bid shift or shift swap
Updated onArticleYou can Pick Up shifts that have been assigned to other employees (shift swap) or that have been made available as bid shifts or transfer bid shifts by a manager. This is done on the Available Shift Swaps page in TimeForge or directly from the Today Page for any date that has a PICK UP SHIFTS option.
Employee Guide Schedules & Time Cards
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Accept or reject a shift
Updated onArticleTimeForge is a great tool for managers because it makes scheduling employees and tracking attendance simple.
TimeForge is also great for employees because it gives them the power to accept or reject their shifts for someone else to pick up. If an employee decides to deny their shift and give it up, manager approval will still be required before it takes effect. The employee will have to log in to their TimeForge account and follow these steps to accept or reject their shift.
Employee Guide Schedules & Time Cards
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View your upcoming work schedule
Updated onArticleAs an employee using TimeForge, you can see work schedules that your management team has posted. Â Schedules can be emailed to your email address, sent to your cell phone via text message, or you can log in to TimeForge at any time to review posted schedules.
Employee Guide Schedules & Time Cards
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Edit or delete an availability or time off request
Updated onArticleEditing and deleting requests and changing availability is easy with TimeForge! Prior to manager approval, Pending Requests can be edited or deleted. After a request is approved by management, you cannot edit the request, but you may delete it.
Employee Guide Availability & Requests
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Request time off
Updated onArticleThis article will show you how to request time off in TimeForge using a Leave Type. The Leave Types you have access to will depend on your company's rules regarding PTO (for example, they might offer a week's worth of paid leave after your first year, or you might be required to accrue your leave over time based on the number of hours you worked). Leave types can be paid or unpaid, accrued or not.
If your employer requires you to submit PTO requests a certain number of days in advance, TimeForge will automatically let you know if you try to create a request that does not meet the requirements.
Employee Guide Availability & Requests
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Create requests or change your availability
Updated onArticleCreating time-off or want-to-work requests and changing your availability to work is easy with TimeForge!
Staff requests are immediately sent to management for manager approval, and you will receive notifications through TimeForge and email when your request is approved or denied.
Employee Guide Availability & Requests
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View and send messages through TimeForge
Updated onArticleTimeForge's messaging system provides a single location for convenient and simple work-related messages. Messages sent or received through TimeForge are accessible via the Messages page inside the application. If you have an email address configured in TimeForge, you will also receive messages by email.
To send and receive messages by email, make sure that you have an email address associated with your TimeForge profile. Your managers and coworkers will also need to set their email addresses in order to do the same.
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