AUTOMATED SCHEDULING

Ease managers’ scheduling burdens

Legion's automated scheduling system enables intelligent automation to create optimal schedules that match business needs with employee preferences and skills 96% of the time.

  • Maintain oversight and control while reducing scheduling time by 50%
  • Factor in labor compliance rules and business policies automatically and ensure predictable schedules
  • Built-in productivity metrics help you automatically schedule employees who are top performers during peak periods
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Highlights

Legion’s auto scheduling software leverages intelligent automation, simplifying and reducing scheduling time

Instantly create optimized schedules based on productivity, labor rules, budget constraints, compliance rules, and employee skills and preferences.

Create optimal schedules that match business needs with employee preferences and skills 96% of the time.

Continuously learns and improves based on preferences, changes in compliance rules, and manager edits.

Builds trust through transparency and schedule equity.

Legion by the Numbers

Automated Scheduling

50%

Reduction in scheduling time

96%

Of the time employee preferences and business needs are intelligently matched

10%

Compliance violation reduction

4.9

App Store rating drives adoption and engagement with employees

Legion Automated Scheduling makes it simple to generate a superior schedule automatically—with just one click. Unlike legacy solutions, Legion’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) processes hundreds of permutations, learns constantly, and is built using precise ML-generated demand forecasts. Optimized schedules can be created in seconds. Watch our quick video to learn more.

Empower employees

Gig-like flexibility, automatically delivered.

With automated self-service shift swaps and shift claims, employees have more control over their schedules. They can define when, how much, and where they want to work and update their preferences anytime.

Legion’s intuitive, modern app is the highest rated app in the industry with tens of thousands of users giving it a 4.8 rating in the app store. It’s used weekly by 88% of employees that have it.

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Increase operational efficiency

Optimized schedules that continuously improve

Automated scheduling enables managers to generate optimal schedules that instantly match business needs with employee preferences and skills. This includes selecting the most qualified employee for a shift based on skills, performance, labor rules, budget constraints, and compliance rules.

Optimize your workforce across locations to cover critical needs during projected peak periods while avoiding costly overtime, protecting service levels, and offering flexibility for hourly employees.

Liberate managers

Reduce administrative burden on managers

Unburden managers with Legion WFM which enables intelligent automation and continuously learns and improves. Maintain oversight and control while reducing scheduling time by 50%. Instantly approve or deny time-off requests, shift swaps, and shift claims based on rules.

The Legion Generative AI Schedule Assistant gives managers a conversational interface for analyzing schedules to provide insights and recommended actions. The Schedule Assistant enables managers to easily access schedule data without spending time searching and filtering in the application. With natural language commands, they can make quick schedule edits on the go.

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Minimize compliance risk

Manage labor laws and policies with ease

Pre-built, up-to-date compliance templates and business rules ensure predictable and fully compliant schedules. Managers receive automatic alerts, reports, and full audit trails.

Schedule bidding by skills and seniority ensures employee preferences and all collective bargaining agreements are met.

Schedule attestation allows managers to capture reason codes for schedule changes within the advance notice period and employees can indicate whether they accept or decline schedule changes.

The Benefits to Your Bottom Line

Auto scheduling software saves on costs, time, and effort. How?

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Reduce Labor Costs

Reduced compliance costs associated with payroll errors, premiums, and OT.

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Optimize Schedules

Improve schedules by aligning your company’s needs with employee availability instantly.

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Increase Topline Revenue

unburdening managers with automation to spend more time on the floor interacting with employees and customers, increases conversion rates and customer service.

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Increase Retention

with schedule flexibility and empowerment.

FAQs About Automated Scheduling

Automated scheduling software impacts several areas of business operation. Here are a few common questions we receive.

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Why Legion?

Automated Scheduling makes it simple to generate a superior schedule automatically – with one click. Unlike legacy solutions, Legion’s cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) processes hundreds of permutations, learns constantly, and is built using precise ML-generated demand forecasts. Optimized schedules can be created in seconds.

Automated Scheduling takes care of labor operations, so managers can focus on managing the business, increasing sales, and creating a culture that retains employees.

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Brandon Hall Group Technology Excellence Award Gold 2024
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2024 Inc. Best In Business
AI ExcellenceAward 2025
CB Insights Retail Tech 100 2023
AI Breakthrough Award 2025
SAAS Finalist 25
Inc. 5000 America's Fastest Growing Private Companies
Best in Biz Awards 2022
Forbes 2021 Billion Dollar Startups
Gartner Cool Vendor 2020
JMP Hot 100
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“Now our employees can swap shifts, take open shifts, and put in their availability all from their mobile phone. They just have a better experience with their schedule and have a more predictive schedule as well.”

Director of Workforce Planning, Retail

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