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Shifton Announces Release of a Buyer's Guide to Modern WFM Platforms
New guide helps organizations evaluate workforce management software with practical criteria for unified workforce operations SaaS, labor management, and payroll integration.Image: https://www.globalnewslines.com/uploads/2025/09/c832fa9868dee76cc7fa45a75ecffc0b.jpg
Shifton [https://shifton.com?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=buyersguide] today announced the release of a new buyer's guide designed to help organizations evaluate workforce management (WFM) solutions in a crowded and fragmented software market. The Shifton buyer's guide [https://shifton.com/blog/modern-wfm-platforms-buyers-guide/?utm_source=brandpush&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=wfm_short_guide_2025&utm_content=primary], available on the company's website, highlights the core structural features businesses should prioritize when selecting a modern WFM platform and addresses the decision-making challenges that arise when critical functions are spread across multiple tools.
For many companies, decision lag in workforce operations stems from scattered processes. According to the Shifton team, requests may remain buried in messaging apps, hours are corrected days later, and leadership often learns of payroll discrepancies only after the cycle closes. The Shifton buyer's guide underscores how a unified workforce operations SaaS can close these gaps by consolidating team management, task management, activity tracking, reporting and analytics, and payroll [https://shifton.com/features/payroll-management/?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=buyersguide] integration within a single framework.
"Most workforce issues come from gaps between tools. Our goal is to make those handoffs boringly reliable - fast enough for busy days and strict enough for finance," the Shifton team stated.
The guide explains why time and labor oversight must align with financial systems in real time, ensuring exceptions and variance to plan are flagged early instead of weeks after they occur. By integrating scheduling, exception tracking, and payroll-ready outputs into one workflow, companies can reduce manual oversight while maintaining compliance with labor regulations.
According to Shifton, organizations evaluating a labor management platform should begin by confirming that roles, skills, locations, and permissions can be modeled without workarounds. This capability is critical for team management at scale. From there, businesses should verify whether tasks can be assigned with clear ownership and context, ensuring accountability that extends beyond chat threads or spreadsheets. Activity tracking, including real-time capture of hours where work occurs, is identified as essential for reliable variance monitoring.
The buyer's guide also highlights outcomes businesses should expect in the first month after adopting a modern WFM platform. These include visible plans that publish on schedule, a decline in unapproved requests moving through side channels, and exception counts that decrease week by week. Variance to plan narrows, creating smoother payroll cycles and more predictable financial reporting.
The team said the guide was developed in response to the increasing complexity of workforce operations. "Leaders are under pressure to make staffing and cost decisions faster, yet their systems often work against them. By outlining a straightforward set of criteria, we want to give organizations a way to evaluate vendors based on structure, not just appearance," said the company.
To help companies evaluate providers efficiently, the guide advises testing for rule enforcement and audit capabilities rather than relying solely on polished demonstrations. Core questions include whether the platform enforces breaks, overtime, and approvals automatically; whether data can be captured and confirmed from mobile devices even with limited connectivity; and whether APIs and single sign-on integrations exist to reduce IT overhead.
The guide also examines why many WFM implementations fail to deliver expected results. When a platform lacks native enforcement for policies or requires heavy customization, operational debt builds over time. A modern labor management platform should reduce this debt by embedding audit trails, variance reporting, exception tracking, and seamless payroll integration directly into its foundation.
Those who want to evaluate potential vendors in their own operational context may book a live demo [https://shifton.com/book-a-demo/?utm_source=brandpush&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=wfm_short_guide_2025&utm_content=demo] today. Shifton provides this option directly through its website for companies that want to test scheduling, task management, and reporting flows against real-world requirements.
The resource concludes with practical advice on early rollout. Businesses that adopt unified WFM systems should expect fewer manual adjustments, more consistent task confirmations, and faster visibility into labor costs. The outcome, Shifton suggests, is not that work becomes easier, but that decision-makers gain access to the same facts quickly enough for them to matter.
About Shifton
Shifton is a workforce operations SaaS company built to unify scheduling, time capture, and payroll handoff in one WFM platform [https://shifton.com?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=buyersguide]. Its system supports team management across roles, skills, and locations, provides task ownership with checklists and approvals, captures activity data in real time, and delivers reporting and analytics with variance and exception insights. The labor management platform is designed to close the gap between operations and finance, enabling organizations to manage labor costs and compliance reliably.
Founded with the goal of simplifying complex workforce operations, Shifton serves businesses across industries including hospitality, healthcare, call centers, logistics, and professional services. By combining workforce planning, time and labor oversight, activity tracking, exception tracking, variance to plan, and payroll integration, Shifton offers organizations a structured approach to workforce management that scales from small businesses to enterprise operations.
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