
{"id":719,"date":"2018-05-04T02:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T02:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=719"},"modified":"2023-06-04T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T21:02:03","slug":"h-communicate-emps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-communicate-emps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to Communicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ways to Communicate with Employees, Managers &amp; Third Parties<\/h3>\n<p>There are many ways you can communicate with others using WhenToWork.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Email Sign in Instructions to Employees<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can email or print sign in instructions that include the user&#8217;s unique username and password.\u00a0<strong>\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-let-emps-signin\/h-send-emp-inst\/\">More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Email Sign in Instructions to Managers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can email or print sign in instructions to one or all employees that include the manager&#8217;s unique username and password. <strong>\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-settings\/h-mgr-signin-inst\/\">More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Automatic Email, Text, In-App Push &amp; Alexa Notifications<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nEach employee and manager can sign in and add their email or text message addresses and set which notifications they want to receive at each address. Ex. when a shift they can pick up becomes available, etc. <strong>\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-email-notific\/h-email-notifcations\/\">More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Send a Message<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nEach user can write, send, and receive messages through the <strong>MESSAGING<\/strong> section and they can also forward messages to their email address. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-msg-text-alerts\/h-how-message\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Send Schedules When You Publish<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmployees can choose to be sent their schedule and a list of open shifts on the Tradeboard when you publish a schedule week or change one of their shifts. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/h-publishing\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Send Schedule Reminders<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSometimes you may want to send a message to all employees working this weekend, or just remind employees of their shifts tomorrow, etc. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/h-send-reminders\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Automatic Shift Reminders &#8211; Pro Plan<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nPro Plan subscribers can also set up automatic shift reminders which can go out 24 and 1 hour before the employee&#8217;s shift starts. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/automatic-shift-reminders\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Message Some or All Employees Assigned a Certain Time, Day or Week<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Along with schedule reminders you can use the Schedule Grid to sort, filter, find etc various shifts and check off the shifts and send all assigned employees a message. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-view-edit-sched\/h-shift-grid-bulk-edit\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Automatically Notify Employees When Shifts Open Up<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmployees can automatically be notified by email, text, in-app push or Alexa when a shift they can work becomes available. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-email-notific\/h-email-notifcations\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Send Urgent Text Message Alert<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can send a short text message to all employees and managers who have signed up to receive them. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-msg-text-alerts\/h-urgent-text-alert\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Post Notice on Employee Homepage<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can post a notice on the homepage for all employees and managers to see and you can also include links to web sites or online documents etc. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-notices-bb\/h-emp-notice\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Post Entry to Bulletin Board<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can post a bulletin to your Company Bulletin Board for employees and managers, and also give employees permission to post bulletins. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-notices-bb\/h-bulletin-board\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Print Schedules<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can print schedules using any of our 13 different configurable, printer-friendly views, or print an individual employee&#8217;s schedule, or a filtered schedule. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-view-edit-sched\/h-stand-views\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Include Notation with a Shift<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEach shift can include special instructions or information you want the employee to know about that shift. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/h-making-sched-change\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Include Notation for a Schedule Week<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can add schedule notes for each week &#8211; either private notes for managers or notes that employees see when they sign in and those notes are also included when employees receive their schedules via email. \u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-auto-sched-week\/h-adding-notes\/\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Share a Google Calendar<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYou can share a Google Calendar that includes all or some of your shifts. This can be helpful when you want to communicate schedules to third parties without a username and password. <strong>\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-printouts\/h-google\/\">More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">how can i contact employees, managers contact employees<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ways to Communicate with Employees, Managers &amp; Third Parties There are many ways you can communicate with others using WhenToWork. 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