Staffjoy vs VolunteerReminder

Staffjoy is creating flexibility for workers and businesses to help them thrive

Staffjoy provides the first workforce tool that builds schedules entirely automatically while respecting worker preferences and not requiring human scheduler. The web app collects worker availability and business demand and then schedules workers according to their preferences, as well as the business’s rules. Businesses save money by regaining time spent scheduling, as they utilize the more efficient schedules.

Staffjoy is creating flexibility for workers and businesses to help them thrive.
Relative to other scheduling startups like WhenIWork and ShiftPlanning, Staffjoy automates the whole process and decreases labor costs.
Philip Thomas and Andrew Hess co-founded Staffjoy. They met while engineering students at Washington University in St. Louis, then worked at OpenDNS through its acquisition by Cisco. They started Staffjoy as a side project, then began working on it full-time during the first Y Combinator Fellowship Class.

We are automating a task that managers spend millions of hours per week doing around the world. Not only are we replacing a human, but we are out-performing them and our sophisticated algorithms automate legal compliance and better allocate resources than a human.

Send automated text and email reminders to volunteers.

VolunteerReminder is a simple volunteer management system that does one thing really well: remind volunteers when they are scheduled to work. We stripped away the features that can overcomplicate it and kept only the essentials in order to make the software as intuitive as possible. VolunteerReminder allows volunteer coordinators to 1. set up a calendar with their volunteer's schedules and to 2. send reminders to them via text or email before their shifts. That's all! Our target customer works at a non-profit or is a volunteer themselves. We make it easy for them to make sure the people they work hard to recruit, and coordinate will be there when they need them. Millions of people rely on the kindness of volunteers each day, whether in soup kitchens, homeless shelters, places of worship, visitor centers, and more.

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