Workforce Planning Software

Real-time utilization alerts

Stamp out burnout

Prevent resource overutilization, and keep the talent you can’t afford to lose with complete visibility from your resource planning software. Keep workloads balanced and burnout at bay with optimized resource allocation across teams, powered by AI suitability scoring and real-time utilization alerts.

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A dashboard within Dayshape's strategic resource planning software.

“Dayshape has given us capabilities we simply didn’t have before. And that’s what really energizes people, knowing we’ve invested in something that’s not only good for the organization’s bottom line, but also genuinely benefits the people doing the work, the people being scheduled, and the schedulers themselves."

Tom Quinn

Chief Financial Officer, Bennett Thrasher

“People generally stay at Grant Thornton UK because of the culture and how much freedom people have when it comes to how and where they work. Dayshape’s software has allowed us to enhance this part of our culture even more.”

Laura Brierley

Project Implementation Director, Grant Thornton UK

"Dayshape's advanced functionalities and intuitive, user-friendly interface were strong drivers for us. These features enable more efficient processes while improving our employee experience."

Daniel Gwerder

Partner and Head of Product Development and Digitalization for Audit, BDO Switzerland

"We want Grant Thornton Netherlands to be the firm where people work on projects they want to work on. With a comprehensive but intuitive scheduling interface that allows us to match skills and preferences to work, Dayshape will enable us to deliver great employee and client experiences."

Remko Lagendijk

Assurance Partner, Grant Thornton Netherlands

"The additional insights we receive through Dayshape Intelligent Staffing enhances our ability to make staffing decisions from a firm-wide view, rather than being limited by geography, industry, or service line. This approach aligns perfectly with Plante Moran's 'one-firm firm' philosophy, magnifying our practice of bringing the full power of our firm to our clients, and ultimately strengthening support for both our clients and our staff."

Laura Beyer

Director of Talent Deployment, Plante Moran

"We believe that taking really good care of our people enables them to take really good care of our clients. Dayshape supports this approach to growth in a holistic manner and is sure to enhance our ability to execute excellently for our clients."

Casey Hawkins

Director of Operations, Embark

"To develop your people, you must give them access to a broad range of work. By aligning resource allocation with individual work preferences, we can offer better career development opportunities."

Leanne Wilkins

Head of Talent Acquisition and Resourcing, MHA

"We're looking forward to utilizing skills-based scheduling and work preferences to not only deliver for our clients but also provide an enhanced, more enjoyable experience for our people here at Moore Kingston Smith."

Sarah Kirkman

Recruitment and Resourcing Lead, Moore Kingston Smith

"With Dayshape we can ensure that our people are allocated to work that is within their preferences. At Pinion, we've set a goal for this rate at 80% to foster fulfilling careers for our people. "

Allison Hovey

Resource Management Leader, Pinion

Self-serve assignment

Empower teams with autonomy

Happy teams deliver outstanding client experiences. Give your people a say in the work they do by letting them self-select unassigned tasks based on their grade, location, and business unit. Allow them to suggest schedule changes and update their skills, giving them greater career control and work-life balance.

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An example of the autonomy offered via Dayshape's resource capacity planning software.

Skills matrix and preference

Complete skills visibility

Trust accurate skills information synced from your systems or built in Dayshape. Easily upload your staff skill matrices with pre-built templates or integrate them via an API. Match skills to work for higher-quality engagements and gain better visibility into skill shortages for more accurate resource capacity planning.

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Dayshape's people planning software provides complete visibility into individual team members' skills profiles.

What is strategic people planning?

Strategic people planning is the process of aligning human resources with a business’ overall goals, or client objectives. Also referred to as ‘workforce planning’ or ‘resource planning’, people planning requires an understanding of the available resources and skills that will help your organization to succeed. Strategic people planning builds an agile workforce that’s able to adapt to evolving market needs. At the same time, it supports employees to meet their career development goals, and HR teams to develop informed future workforce and capacity planning strategies.

What are the benefits of people-first planning?

There are many benefits to a people-first approach to resource planning. These include matching skills to work for higher-quality engagements and greater visibility of skills shortages, more autonomy for individuals over their daily work, long-term career development alignment, and the ability to attract and retain valuable talent by considering individual motivations and preferences

How can resource planning software support people-first planning?

Resource planning software supports a people-first approach to planning, as it automatically considers skills, traits, and task preferences during the resource scheduling process. Self-serve assignment functionality empowers teams by allowing them to select the work they’d like to be involved in, from unassigned work aligned to their grade, location and business unit. Teams can also suggest changes to their schedules, giving them more control of their careers and work-life balance.

How can professional services firms allocate work more fairly?

Resource planning software can help professional services firms to allocate work fairly by automatically calculating a suitability score for each person. This helps to assist resource managers in the resource allocation process and assign work objectively. Suitability scoring works by automatically identifying the best match of available skills, knowledge, and expertise for the task. A data-driven approach to resource planning also reduces job selection bias and allows work to be distributed more effectively and fairly across the firm. Ensuring the best match of resource allocation based on skills and availability for the task every time can also positively impact retention by supporting diversity and career advancement.

How can professional services firms create optimal resource plans?

When implemented correctly, an optimal resource plan can help an organization to increase efficiency, improve profit margins, and positively impact client and employee satisfaction. Using resource management software, firms can create optimal resource plans and find the best people for their engagements faster. Resource planning software also provides firm-wide visibility of staff in one tool, allowing teams to efficiently and flexibly plan across all engagements, improving utilization and capacity planning. Automated project controls and alerts can also speed up the process of resolving clashes, or prevent them from happening in the first place.

What is the role of people planning analytics?

People planning analytics play an integral role in strategic workforce planning. Dayshape provides organizations with detailed insights to support capacity planning, and make better informed decisions to address skills gaps and plan for the future. The analytics provided by our people planning software can also support more efficient resource allocation, optimizing overall workforce efficiency.