Roster Planning

BridgeBuilder’s
Attendance & Rostering Software / Management System
Optimizing Flexibility & Efficiency

Why Do Businesses Need Attendance & Roster Management System

Whether you are managing a group of full-time employees or a combination of both full-time and part-time workers, BridgeBuilder’s attendance & rostering system for Hong Kong businesses can assist you in easily and efficiently managing their work schedules in minutes while monitoring real-time punctuality with ease.

Our roster management system has a user-friendly and consolidated interface with a weekly or monthly calendar view, which is convenient for supervisors to review all planned work shifts and employees’ availability at a glance. Meanwhile, our attendance management module provides multiple clock-in/out options to suit various operational needs, bringing extra convenience to the HR department. 

Rostering System Delivers Unparallelled Convenience

Most conveniently, all necessary employee information required for effective roster planning will be displayed in the same calendar, including but not limited to the remaining annual leaves, rest days, time-off hours, public holidays for each employee, facilitating the entire planning process through our rostering software.

Moreover, our attendance management module can be directly linked to our rostering system, not only making the transfer of turn-out data to our rostering software faster and easier, but also keeping supervisors updated of the latest records and availability of each employee when they are rostering their teams. Let’s explore the smartest rostering software in HK. 

Why is BridgeBuilder's Rostering Software Your Smartest Choice?

Highly-Compliant Rostering Software for HK Businesses
Prevent Any Planning Mistakes!

The compliance of the rostering process may be often overlooked as many companies or frontline operators are unaware of the local labour regulations and legislative changes, especially when there is no rostering system in place to help.

In fact, there are regulations, such as the “418” / “468” rule, highly relevant to your rostering process and compensation to your staff. It is therefore crucial for you to closely monitor the working hours of your part-time staff, like through a rostering system, to ensure your roster plans will not violate statutory limitations accidentally. 

As a well-established rostering system in Hong Kong with profound industry and legal knowledge related to human resource management, we offer guaranteed compliance by incorporating a “418” / “468” checker in our rostering software. Our rostering system can automatically calculate the accumulated working hours of each employee and highlight any shift plans that may violate local regulatory requirements, ensuring you a high level of compliance in your rostering process without any regulatory errors and legal risks. 

What Are The “418” & “468” Rules?
How Can Our Rostering System for Hong Kong Companies Help?

The “418” and “468” Ordinances are two stipulations concerning continuous employment contracts in the Hong Kong Employee Ordinance.

As employers are required to provide certain statutory benefits and compensations to employees having continuous employment contracts, it is essential for employers to implement a highly compliant rostering system in Hong Kong that can assist them in managing relevant calculations. 

The “418” Ordinance:

The “418” Ordinance was implemented by the Hong Kong Government in 1990, which stipulates that an employee who works for the same employers continuously for four weeks or more, with at least 18 hours per week, is considered to be employed under a “continuous employment contract”. This status entitled the employee to certain statutory benefits and compensations provided by the employer to ensure workers in Hong Kong are treated fairly with well protections and proper working conditions.

Our rostering software for HK businesses has a built-in check to calculate and detect any cases that may violate the rule for you, keeping you alert all the time during your rostering process.

The “468” Ordinance:

The “468” Ordinance is a new stipulation proposed by the Hong Kong Government to replace the original “418” Rule, with effect from February 2024. Under the new rule, the threshold for continuous employment contracts has changed from “working continuously for four weeks or more, with at least 18 hours per week” to “accumulating a total of 68 hours of work within a 4-week period”. This adjustment was made to fix the loophole of “418” Rule and prevent employers from exploiting it to prevent their workers from entitling additional benefits, strengthening the worker benefits in Hong Kong further.

Our rostering system has swiftly responded to the above legislative changes by updating our functionality to detect “468” requirements before the implementation of the ordinance! 

Therefore, it is extremely important for employers to maintain accurate records of working hours of your employees, especially when you are rostering your team. Reach out to BridgeBuilder for a highly compliant and flexible roster management system to reduce your legal risk now!

Hear What Our Clients Say About Our Rostering Software

Rostering system is one of the most popular solutions of BridgeBuilder due to having a considerable number of clients in the retail and Food & Beverage industry with a part-time staff intensive workforce.

With rich experience and advanced technology, BridgeBuilder’s rostering software for HK businesses understands operational pain points commonly found in roster planning, and we are able to assist you in transforming your time-consuming and error-prone rostering process with enhanced compliance, efficiency and transparency.

Case 1:
BridgeBuilder’s Rostering System in Hong Kong
Helps agnes b. Replace Excels with Digital Rostering

Case 2:
BridgeBuilder’s Rostering System in Hong Kong Improve Muji’s Roster and Time Management Efficiency with Our High System Flexibility

Case 3:
BridgeBuilder’s Rostering System Revolutionized
Revolutionized Jacobson Pharma’s Manpower Management with Digitalization

Flexible Like No Other
7 Key Features of Our Trusted Rostering System

No matter which industry you are operating in, or whether your workforce consists of part-time, full-time staff or a combination of both, you are empowered by BridgeBuilder’s rostering software in HK to design and plan the work schedule of your employees without any troubles and manual operation! 

In addition to a user-friendly interface and built-in calendar, our rostering system is designed with a clear labelling and highlighting system so that you can identify various shifts and information easily!  

Visualizing Real-Time Attendance
with Our Attendance System System

Keep track of your employees’ punctuality with our multiple clock-in/out options for obtaining real-time records and detecting abnormal attendance based on customized attendance policies to suit your operational needs. All attendance data can be synchronized into our Rostering software and Compensation & Benefit module. Our system is smart enough to cross-check your plans in the rostering management system and leave schedules to maintain an accurate attendance record.     

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Attendance & Roster Management System - FAQs:

1. How can employees check their daily work schedules via BridgeBuilder’s rostering system in Hong Kong?

BridgeBuilder’s roster management system comes with a mobile app and web portal. All employees can view their own work schedule via our Employee Self Service (ESS) web portal or BridgeBuilder’s mobile app anytime on the go. All confirmed adjustments made to the roster by their supervisors via the rostering software will be updated to our ESS app or portal in real time to enhance roster transparency and information circulation. The mobile app is available on both Apple Store and Google Play Store.

Yes, you can create and schedule your roster templates in advance via our rostering system based on your operational and manpower needs, to facilitate your future roster scheduling with our roster template function. You can even pre-set different roster patterns such as having a regular off on Monday through our rostering software to further enhance rostering efficiency and enjoy higher flexibility in your roster planning and management.

Yes, BridgeBuilder’s rostering software provides templates for bulk scheduling instead of individual scheduling to eliminate the need for cumbersome manual processing while streamlining complicated rostering processes.

Yes, you can easily check the real-time attendance of your teams in our rostering software as our system can be connected with our other dedicated module. All such information (including leave) will be reflected in our rostering system’s calendar in real-time to help you identify employee availability immediately to enhance rostering efficiency and data transfer across all systems.


 

No, we do not allow self-swapping of work shifts but is it possible for them to submit “swap my shift” requests via our rostering system for Hong Kong businesses, so that it can be approved by authorized parties. Admin users can also adjust shifts at the backend for their teams if necessary.

 

Yes, you are able to set and control access rights at the backend system such as setting rights by location or by outlet, ensuring only the authorized personnel can have access to edit and view specific rosters with the roster management system. Besides, you can also set the roles of your admin users to maintain the security of your rostering system’s environment further.


 

With our profound industry knowledge and wide client base, BridgeBuilder’s rostering software is designed to comply with Hong Kong labor regulations perfectly. Our rostering system for Hong Kong companies ensures your roster is scheduled according to local statutory requirements such as the “418” / “468” Ordinances with our smart and proactive alert system. When our “418” / “468” checker detects any employees who may exceed statutory working hours in your planned roster, our rostering software will alert you on screen in order to remind you to make timely adjustments or arrange additional welfare to specific employees. This ensures your shift plan is highly compliant with local labour laws, reducing legal risk or disputes.

 

Yes, BridgeBuilder rostering software offers high flexibility which enables seamless integration with our family systems or third-party systems. After integrating with your current system, we are able to extract data in real-time to facilitate effective rostering within our roster system conveniently. 

 

BridgeBuilder provides another module – Overtime Claims to help you manage your employee OT requests and claims. They can submit an OT claim application through our ESS mobile app or web portal for approval. Upon confirmation by an authorized party, the rostering system can automatically convert the confirmed OT hours into various kinds of compensations including time-off hours or OT payment. All confirmed time-off hours will be synchronized into our roster management system so that you can check their availability without delay.

Yes, if you prefer to use a traditional way of managing some parts of your rostering tasks with Excel, you are welcome to complete certain tasks in Excel and then import the finalized Excel into our rostering system for further processing and data transfer. With our roster system, the uploaded and confirmed work schedule will be updated to our ESS mobile and web portal in real-time to enhance information circulation, further enhancing rostering efficiency by eliminating manual operations.

Yes, BridgeBuilder offers an appointment function. Whenever employees have work appointments that prevent them from clocking in/out on time during usual working hours, they can input appointments, such as meetings with clients or attending training courses, into the system in advance for supervisor’s records.

Yes, if there is any special circumstance, the human resources department can manually revise the attendance records based on their needs via BridgeBuilder’s attendance & rostering software.

Yes, we offer an OT Claim module which allows employees to submit OT applications via BridgeBuilder‘s app or Employee Self Service (ESS) web portal in advance for supervisors’ approval. The actual OT hours can be converted into a specific form of compensation based on your company policy.

Yes, the attendance system automatically collects and synchronizes payroll-related data into our payroll engine for calculating attendance-related payment precisely.

During extreme weather conditions such as Typhoon No. 8, the human resources department can create a special event in the system to mark the affected period. Employees do not need to manually apply for leave—this special event will automatically excuse attendance, ensuring no penalties are applied for late arrivals or absences during this time.