Freeish vs When I Work
Employee scheduling software. Managers build rotas, publish them to staff, handle swaps and track time. It is bought by businesses, not by employees.
What When I Work does well
- Excellent at what it is for: building and publishing staff rotas.
- Swap and cover requests with manager approval built in.
- Time tracking and labour cost reporting.
- Your employer may already use it, in which case your schedule is already there.
- Designed around the manager’s workflow, which is the hard part of rota building.
Choose When I Work if…
If you are a manager who needs to build and publish rotas, this is not really a comparison — you need scheduling software, and Freeish is not it. When I Work or something like it is the right purchase.
Choose Freeish if…
Choose Freeish if you are the employee. When I Work tells you when you work; it has no way to tell your partner, your mother or whoever collects your children. Those people cannot have an account, because the account belongs to your employer.
Side by side
| When I Work | Freeish | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Employers and managers. | The individual and the people around them. |
| Who pays | The business. | You, if you want Pro. Free otherwise. |
| Building a rota | Yes — the whole point. | No. It shares one that already exists. |
| Family visibility | None. Accounts are for staff. | The whole purpose. |
| If you change jobs | Access ends with the job. | Yours, and it moves with you. |
| Personal appointments | Not its job. | Alongside your shifts, private if you want. |
Questions people actually ask
My employer uses When I Work. Can Freeish read it?
Not directly — there is no integration, deliberately. Screenshot your schedule and import the picture, which takes about a minute and means nothing you do is visible to your employer.
Is Freeish a replacement?
No. They sit either side of the same schedule: theirs gets it to you, ours gets it to the people at home.
Will my employer know I use Freeish?
No. There is no connection between the two.
Try it against whatever you use now.
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