Labortide

Labor planning for hourly operations

Staffing that moves with demand.

Labortide uses AI trained on your own operation to forecast volume, build the lowest-cost labor plan that covers it, and fill gaps as they open, across every site and inside your rules. Less overtime, less agency spend, fewer idle hours.

Request a pilot See one morning
One day, one site Forecast demand Staffed Call-out filled
05:12 call-out
05:19 filled

05:12, Dock 3

What happens when someone calls out.

  1. 05:12A picker on the second wave calls out. Dock 3 is now one short for forecast volume.
  2. 05:12Labortide finds the trained workers who are off today and under their overtime limit.
  3. 05:13It texts them the shift, starting with the people who asked for extra hours.
  4. 05:19Someone takes it. The supervisor gets a note. Nobody made a phone call.
  5. 05:19The change is checked against local scheduling law and your break rules, and logged.

One plan, kept current all day.

01

Plan from the forecast down

Volume becomes labor hours, labor hours become shifts, by site and by role. When the forecast moves, the plan moves with it.

02

Fill gaps as they open

Call-outs, volume spikes and slow afternoons are handled as they happen: extra shifts offered, voluntary time off offered, people moved between nearby sites.

03

Stay inside the rules

Every change is checked against predictive-scheduling laws, overtime and break rules, and your own policies before it goes out.

Operating expense

Cut the labor cost you can actually control.

Labor is usually the largest cost an operation can change week to week. Labortide's models learn from your own volume, attendance and productivity history, by site, role and hour.

They forecast demand through the day and solve for the cheapest plan that still covers the work and follows your rules. When orders, trucks or attendance change, the plan is re-solved, and the models get sharper every week they see what actually happened.

Where labor cost leaks
Cost Why it happens What Labortide does
Overtime Shifts planned short, gaps covered with premium hours. Plans to the forecast and offers straight-time hours first.
Agency and temp labor Last-minute calls to the agency when the plan misses. Fills from your own trained people and nearby sites before the agency.
Idle hours Full crews on slow afternoons. Offers voluntary time off as soon as volume drops.
Scheduling penalties Late changes under predictive-scheduling laws. Posts schedules early and checks every change before it goes out.

Measured in your pilot against your own baseline: labor cost per unit, overtime hours, agency spend.

Built for the people on the schedule, too.

Predictable hours. Schedules posted early. Preferences that actually count. Shift swaps without a manager in the middle. A schedule people trust is one they show up for.

Start with one site.

A 60 to 90 day pilot at one or two sites. Labortide reads from the timekeeping, HR and warehouse systems you already run, and starts read-only: it recommends, your supervisors approve.

We agree on one number up front, such as labor cost per unit, overtime hours or open-shift fill rate, and measure it against your own baseline.