Scheduling tips, product updates, and the occasional rant about bulletin boards.
On the 40th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera's London opening, the phantom schedule still haunts hourly teams: taped to a wall, buried in a group chat, and living in the manager's head. Here's how to banish it.
Cleveland's 1.5-million-balloon stunt looked great for a few minutes — until the weather changed. A schedule is the same: the plan is only the start.
You remember the 21st of September. Cloxbi remembers the schedule — managers shouldn't have to keep every availability, time-off request, and shift swap in their heads.
Labor Day wasn't invented for mattress sales. It was created in 1882 to recognize American workers — including everyone still working the holiday.
Group chats are great for memes — terrible for managing shift swaps and schedules. Twenty-seven messages later, nobody knows who's actually working.
Vinyl came back. Bulletin board schedules shouldn't. Some 1986 nostalgia is worth bringing back — a paper schedule pinned to the wall isn't.
Gallup finds managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement. For hourly teams, engagement often starts with the schedule — and showing employees their time matters.
Free lunch is nice. Knowing your schedule is better. UKG's study of 8,200 frontline workers found schedule flexibility is second only to pay in why employees stay — or leave.
We asked a Magic 8 Ball about the future of scheduling — and even it knows paper schedules are on the way out. Cloxbi's Free Forever plan makes the switch easy.
Every manager has a mental notebook. It works — until it doesn't. Stop digging through texts, sticky notes, and your memory. Just Ask Cloxbi™.
The fax machine was the future in 1986. Today, businesses keep paper schedules alive with group texts, Messenger threads, and blurry photos. Sometimes the problem isn't the technology — it's refusing to change the process.
Blockbuster passed on buying Netflix for $50 million because renting movies on Friday night was just what people did. Paper schedules have the same problem — they're familiar, not better.
America turned 250 this year — and millions of employees still check a piece of paper taped to a wall to see when they work. It's time to declare independence from paper schedules for good.
Eight scheduling platforms, compared and ranked on features, AI automation, integrations, and price.
If your scheduling process involves a bulletin board, a screenshot, a group text, and a little luck — you don't have one system. You have four.
Switching scheduling software shouldn't feel like adding another problem to solve. Here's why Cloxbi is different.
For years, the employee schedule has lived on a bulletin board. Here's why that needs to change.
If it takes a 30-minute demo to explain how your software works, it probably isn't simple enough. Scheduling should be easier than this.
