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For free!\n\nSling works for a variety of industries and organizations of every size, shape, and kind have already made Sling the place where their work happens. \n\nStreamline Your Business\n•  Schedule faster and smarter: Build accurate schedules in minutes and avoid overlapping shifts and double-bookings.\n\n•  Control labor costs: Stay under budget while controlling overtime and absenteeism.\n\n•  Communicate efficiently from a single platform: Send messages in group or private conversations, keep everyone informed, and build a stronger company culture.\n\n•  Simplify time tracking: Allow employees to clock in and out right from their phones.\n\n•   Make payroll processing easier: Export timesheets for seamless payroll processing.\n\n•  Drive operational compliance: Ensure standards are being met to keep your business compliant.\n\n•  Enhance employee engagement: Engage employees in achieving business objectives in an easy-to-digest way while making work effortless and expected outcomes clear.\n\nBenefits For Managers\n- Schedule with ease: Build your employees' schedules in minutes and manage time off, availability and shift trade requests.\n\n- Eliminate scheduling conflicts: See up-to-date employee availability, time-off requests, and avoid overlapping shifts and double-bookings.\n\n- Democratize scheduling: Let employees sign up for shifts on a first-come, first-served basis, or approve the requests and finalize the schedule.\n\n- Reduce employee absences and late arrivals: Use shift alarms to remind employees of their upcoming shifts and send them notifications when they forget to clock in.\n\n- Optimize labor spending as you schedule: Set wages per employee or position and see how much each shift will cost. Forecast and optimize expenses while scheduling to ensure you stay on budget.\n\n- Manage multiple work locations with ease: Schedule employees across multiple locations on one account and view all schedules in one place.\n\n- Set specific clock-in locations: Use GPS or IP settings to designate where you want employees to clock in.\n\n- Integrate Sling with platforms you already use: Save time and money by integrating your scheduling with your existing platforms.\n\nBenefits For Employees\n- Access the schedule anywhere, anytime: Employees can access their schedules when they aren't at work and get real-time updates on one centralized platform.\n\n- Turn any device into a mobile time clock: With Sling, any device — laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone — becomes a time tracking terminal.\n\n- Chat with coworkers in real time: Sling’s powerful communication features help employees to stay informed wherever they are and never skip a beat.\n\n- Set shift reminders: With Sling, employees can set shift alarms to remind them when they need to work, which helps them be on time.\n\n- Find replacements faster: Sling’s shift exchange feature allows employees to find their own replacements when they can’t work.\n\n- Manage work-life balance better: Employees can set unavailability or request off to make time for other things they love to do. \n\n- Prevent forgotten clock-outs: Sling will automatically clock out employees if they forget to do it themselves.\n\n- Because Sling automates repetitive processes, simplifies complex and time-consuming tasks, and coordinates convoluted workplace communication, it helps any organization run smoother.\n\nTry the Sling app for free and experience the future of workforce management.","facts":{"developer_id":500169842,"developer_url":null,"first_released":"2014-11-03T02:06:26Z","support_url":"https://getsling.com/","privacy_url":"https://getsling.com/privacy-policy/","website_url":null,"app_version":"1.90.84","release_notes":"Thanks for using Sling! 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