Best Workforce Management Software Australia

Evaluating the best workforce management software Australia vendors offer goes badly when the demonstration uses a clean roster, because clean rosters always work.

Bring your worst week instead. A public holiday. Somebody calling in sick two hours before a shift. A swap agreed verbally on the floor. Overtime that ran past a threshold. An employee working across two classifications in one week. A late finish that triggers a break requirement before the next shift.

Then ask exactly what payroll receives at the end of that week, and whether the award was actually interpreted or the hours were simply recorded and handed on.

That single exercise will tell you more than any feature comparison can, because weeks like that are exactly where underpayments originate in practice.

The Fair Work Ombudsman publishes award conditions. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s workforce management software and labour management system.