Workforce Management Software for Every Hourly Workforce

Nowsta helps businesses manage dynamic hourly, frontline, contingent, and gig-style workforce operations across industries. Core WFM supports scheduling, shift fulfillment, time and attendance, workforce communication, labor cost control, and payroll-ready workflows. The Pulse Intelligence Layer adds staffing automation, intelligent scheduling, overtime monitoring, and labor insights so teams can reduce manual work, improve coverage, and make faster labor decisions across locations.

• 25,000+ teams trust Nowsta
• 80% less time scheduling
• 35% cost reduction
• 28% fewer no-shows

One platform for workforce management and intelligence

Nowsta brings workforce operations and workforce intelligence together in one connected platform. Core WFM helps teams manage scheduling, time and attendance, labor cost control, workforce communication, and payroll-ready processes. The Pulse Intelligence Layer adds an AI-powered intelligence layer that helps leaders automate staffing, generate smarter schedules, prevent overtime risk, improve coverage, and monitor labor performance in real time.

Core Workforce Management

Manage the daily workforce operations that keep hourly, frontline, contingent, and gig-style teams moving, including scheduling, time tracking, attendance, communication, labor cost control, and payroll workflows.

Pulse Intelligence Layer

Use AI-driven staffing automation, intelligent schedule generation, automated backfilling, overtime monitoring, and labor insights to improve workforce decisions, support cost reduction, reduce inefficiencies, and operate more efficiently across teams and locations.

Built for dynamic teams operating at scale

From single-site teams to multi-location operations, Nowsta gives businesses the tools to plan labor, schedule staff, track time, and manage workforce execution from one connected platform.

• Reduce Manual Scheduling Work
• Improve Labor Visibility
• Automate Workforce Decisions
• Control Labor Costs

Workforce management from first shift to payroll

Nowsta brings the daily workforce workflows that dynamic teams depend on into one connected platform. From easy shift management and open shift coverage to time tracking, workforce communication, labor cost visibility, and payroll-ready workflows, Nowsta helps businesses manage hourly, Frontline Workers, Contingent Labor, and gig-style teams with more control.

Explore workforce solutions by industry

Nowsta is built for industries where labor demand changes quickly, teams work across shifts and locations, and managers need real-time visibility, automation, and workforce optimization to control costs and improve execution.

Hospitality & Food Service

Manage scheduling, time tracking, labor costs, communication, staffing coverage, and workforce optimization across hotels, restaurants, catering, and food service teams.

Retail

Coordinate hourly teams across stores, regions, and peak demand periods with real-time scheduling, staffing visibility, labor cost control, and workforce automation.

Logistics & Distribution

Optimize warehouse, fulfillment, and distribution labor with smarter scheduling, time tracking, staffing automation, labor insights, and cost controls.

Healthcare

Support distributed care teams, rotating schedules, compliance needs, staffing visibility, accurate time tracking, and labor cost control across healthcare operations.

Education

Manage student workers, hourly staff, campus operations, events, facilities, and department-level workforce needs with better scheduling, visibility, communication, and labor planning.

Events & Venues

Coordinate teams across events, venues, schedules, locations, and last-minute labor changes with real-time visibility, staffing automation, and one connected workforce platform.

One platform for workforce operations and decisions

Whether teams are working in stores, hotels, kitchens, warehouses, campuses, venues, or care environments, Nowsta gives managers the tools to plan labor, schedule employees, track time, communicate with workers, support cost reduction, control costs, and improve workforce decisions with real-time operational data.

Build schedules faster across locations and roles.

Create schedules for hourly, frontline, and contingent workers.

Track hours accurately and reduce payroll cleanup.

Capture clock-ins, clock-outs, and time records.

Make labor decisions with real-time cost visibility.

Monitor labor spend by site, shift, team, or department.

Automate workforce decisions with the Pulse Intelligence Layer.

Staff shifts and events faster using automation built around workforce needs, roles, and availability.

Keep teams aligned before, during, and after every shift.

Send shift reminders and operational updates.

Support consistent workforce processes across the business.

Standardize scheduling, time tracking, and labor workflows.

Built for hourly, frontline, contingent, and gig-style teams

• Hourly Employees: Manage recurring schedules, time tracking, attendance, labor costs, and workforce visibility for hourly teams across locations.
• Frontline Workers: Give managers and frontline workers mobile-first tools to stay aligned, adjust shifts, receive updates, and keep operations moving in real time.
• Contingent Labor: Coordinate flexible labor pools, vendors, and non-traditional workers with better staffing visibility, cost control, communication, and workforce coordination.
• Gig-Style Teams: Support fast-changing labor needs with shift claiming, mobile communication, real-time schedule updates, automated staffing workflows, and faster coverage decisions.

From labor planning to payroll workflows

Nowsta connects the workforce management lifecycle so teams can move from labor planning to execution with fewer disconnected systems, less manual work, and better real-time workforce decisions. With Core WFM and the Pulse Intelligence Layer, teams can forecast demand, build schedules, fill open shifts, track time, control labor costs, and improve workforce efficiency across locations.

Step 1

Forecast Demand

Predict workforce needs based on business requirements, historical trends, location needs, operational demand, and labor insights.

Step 2

Build Schedules

Create schedules across teams, locations, departments, and roles while aligning coverage with demand, availability, labor costs, and workforce needs.

Step 3

Fill Open Shifts

Use availability, skills, mobile communication, shift claiming, and automated backfilling to improve coverage and reduce callout disruption.

Step 4

Track Time

Capture time and attendance data from workers in the field.

Step 5

Approve Hours

Review exceptions, approve timesheets, monitor overtime risk, and prepare accurate labor data for reporting and payroll workflows.

Step 6

Connect to Payroll

Move approved hours and labor data into payroll and reporting workflows, then use workforce insights to improve future staffing, labor planning, and cost control.

Different industries, Same workforce challenges

• Last-Minute Schedule Changes: Quickly adjust schedules when workers call out, demand changes, or coverage gaps appear, with automation and real-time visibility helping teams respond faster.
• Multi-Location Visibility: Give leaders real-time visibility into staffing, labor costs, attendance, coverage, overtime risk, and workforce performance across every location.
• Overtime and Labor Cost Control: Track labor spend in real time, monitor overtime risk, support cost reduction, and use workforce insights to reduce preventable labor cost issues.
• Time Tracking and Payroll Accuracy: Capture accurate hours, reduce manual payroll corrections, and move cleaner workforce data into payroll-ready reporting workflows.
• Worker Communication: Keep teams informed with shift reminders, operational updates, mobile-first communication, and faster responses to schedule changes or callouts.
• Compliance and Accountability: Create consistent scheduling, time, labor, and reporting processes across teams and locations, while improving accountability with clearer workforce data.

Value for every team involved in workforce operations

Operations Leaders:

• Improve schedule execution across locations.
• Reduce manual coordination and last-minute admin work.
• Respond faster to demand changes, callouts, and coverage gaps.
• Use real-time workforce visibility to operate with more control.

HR and Workforce Teams:

• Standardize workforce workflows across teams and locations.
• Improve the worker experience with mobile-first self-service.
• Reduce repetitive administrative tasks through automation.
• Support clearer communication, scheduling, and time tracking processes.

Finance Teams:

• Improve labor cost visibility across locations, shifts, and departments.
• Support cost reduction with cleaner workforce data and better labor planning.
• Monitor overtime risk before it affects margins.
• Connect workforce decisions to budget impact and cost control.

Site and Regional Managers:

• Build schedules faster with less manual work.
• Fill open shifts with less back-and-forth communication.
• See attendance, coverage, and labor issues sooner.
• Communicate workforce updates from one connected system.

Workers:

• View schedules and updates from mobile.
• Receive clearer shift communication before work begins.
• Claim or swap shifts where enabled.
• Stay aligned with managers, teams, and location needs.