Employee Scheduling Automation. Optimize shift planning.
Automate employee shift planning, tailored to your business rules and employee preferences.


REST API - JSON in/out
Harness the power of AI-driven optimization technology by sending your planning problem to our REST API and we return you an optimized solution. Catering to the complexities of planning shifts for thousands of employees.
Your preferred way of hosting
Host Timefold on-premise via a docker image and your preferred hosting solution. Or leverage our technology via the Timefold hosted cloud platform.
Designed for full flexibility
- Save time planning and let Timefold run through all scenarios to get the optimal solution
- Re-plan a in real-time to, such as employee availability, emergencies, unexpected equipment failure.
- Continuous planning, allowing to plan ahead for days, weeks or even months.
- Remain in control with manual pinning.
For shift planners
Automatically plan shifts
Contact us to explore how our efficient employee scheduling optimization can enhance your operational efficiency and reduce labor costs. Our automated planning adapts to your workforce and skill sets, ensuring optimal scheduling results.
Talk to usFor Employee Scheduling SaaS
Integrate the best solver
Boost your Employee Scheduling SaaS with Timefold's advanced solver scheduling capabilities. Seamlessly integrate Timefold into your platform, allowing you to focus on enhancing your core features.
Talk to usOptimized employee scheduling for your business constraints and rules
Shift coverage
Guarantee full shift coverage for peak operations.
Skill
Assign the right person for the job. Match skills to tasks for efficient assignments.
Shift limit
Limit the number of hours or consecutive shifts an employee can work.
Employee Preferences
Tailor schedules to best align with employees' work-life balance needs.
Availability
Accommodating employees work schemes such as part-time availability or certain days off.
Define shift type
Adjust work guidelines depending on the shift period (morning, afternoon, night).
Shift synergy
Ensure specific team members are always on the same shift
Fairness
Equal distribution of desirable shifts and hours among employees
Custom constraints?
Your unique business rule can be translated into an actionable constraint.
Optimize employee shift scheduling
17 years of Planning Optimization
17 years ago I started OptaPlanner as an Open Source project and built a team around it, at Red Hat.
Geoffrey De Smet - Co-founder & CTO, Timefold
Now we are continuing the project as a dedicated company under the Timefold brand. Improving on our already existing product, building with the co-creators of OptaPlanner.

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Automate employee shift planning, tailored to your business rules and employee preferences.
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