Good Afternoon! Today I wanted to share with you all some insight into how traditional strategies are dead and how a new social era has emerged in the way businesses operate. Currently, we instantly combine the word “social” with “media” and although the two are intertwined, social can mean much more than media. If we [...]
Category Archives: Retail
Good Afternoon! Today’s Wednesday so it’s time for another SkedX Tip! Today’s tip is all about using productivity reports to ensure the schedule is effective and fair! With SkedX Productivity Reports, you can see how many hours that you have scheduled an employee for in comparison to how many they’re available to work. With this [...]
Good Morning! Today I wanted to share with you all a feature article on some new insights that have been revealed on today’s trends in online shopping. With the introduction of online shopping a long time ago, the retail experience and the way consumers shop has drastically changed. At first it was tech savvy teens [...]
Good Afternoon!! It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another SkedX Tip!! Today’s tip is all about deleting and inactivating employees! With SkedX, you are able to delete an employee’s profile completely or if an employee will be taking a leave of absence then you can inactivate there profile and still have their information saved. To delete/inactivate an [...]
Good Afternoon!! Today I wanted to share with you all 28 studies proving the value of engaged employees! If you’re a regular reader here at the SkedCast, you know employee engagement is our favourite topic here and that we truly believe engaged employees are more than just happy and can do more than just increase [...]
Good Afternoon! It’s Wednesday today so I have a new SkedX tip for you all! Today’s tip is all about creating employee breaks! With SkedX we made it easy to create break policies that will automatically deduct minutes from the enter schedule page. Because each company has different operating hours and different break durations we [...]
Good Morning! It’s time for another SkedX tip! Today’s tip is all about using the Time Clock! With SkedX, you can turn any desktop, laptop, tablet, and more into a check in and check out station. With the time clock feature, your employees check in and out at the beginning and end of their shifts allowing you to [...]
Good Afternoon! Today I wanted to discuss with you all how big box retailers are finding it difficult to compete with the online market. Consumers have now taken on a “showroom” approach to shopping where they go in store to physically feel and see the products they want, only to then compare prices and make [...]
Good Morning! Today I wanted to share with you all three ways to help combat the high turnover of Generation Y employees! Currently, it’s been reported by the Bureau of Labour Statistics that the average employee will stay at his or her job for 4.4 years. For Generation Y, that number is cut in half [...]
Good Morning!! It’s time for another SkedX Tip! This week’s tip is all about using the SkedX wall to enhance communication! With SkedX, we made it possible to communicate to all departments by providing a wall on the home page where managers and employees can all interact with each other. The process is fairly simple, [...]
