For hotel workers

The desk is staffed at three in the morning. Somebody is you

Hotels never close, so the rota covers every hour and rotates people through all of them. Add events and banquets, which appear with little notice and run late, and the week is genuinely hard for anyone else to predict.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Night audit

Eleven at night to seven in the morning, alone, and completely invisible to a normal calendar.

Housekeeping earlies

In at seven, out mid-afternoon, six days some weeks.

Banquet and event shifts

Added when a function books, often at short notice and usually running late.

Split coverage

Check-out rush and check-in rush, with the quiet middle between them.

What it sounds like at home

  • “I work nights and my family are asleep when I am not.”
  • “A function gets booked and my Saturday disappears.”
  • “The rota is posted in the back office and nowhere else.”
  • “Split shifts mean I am at work twice in a day, not once.”
  • “Nobody knows when I am on the desk and when I am off.”

Where Freeish fits

Import the posted rota from a photo instead of copying it out.

Night audit shifts show as unavailable overnight and asleep the next morning.

Function shifts go in as they are added and reach everyone immediately.

Family plan around your actual days off, which are often midweek.

One week, start to finish

Sofia, front desk

  1. Sofia photographs the fortnight's rota from the back-office wall.
  2. It imports in one go, night audits included.
  3. Her partner sees the nights and takes the school run those mornings.
  4. A wedding is booked and she adds the Saturday banquet shift.
  5. Her family plan a lunch on the Wednesday she is actually off.

Questions hotel workers ask

Can it handle nights that cross midnight?
Yes — an overnight shift is one event that spans the two dates, which is how the people following you read it too.
What about shifts added at short notice?
Add them and everyone sees it straight away. No second message.
Does my employer see anything?
No. There is no connection between Freeish and any employer system.

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