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Accelo and Gusto Collaborate to Enhance HR and Scheduling Capabilities of Businesses

HR Tech Outlook | Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The scheduling solution will enhance schedule management, offering transparency as well as efficiency for small businesses.

FREMONT, CA: To stay ahead of the competition, it is imperative for organizations to plan and schedule their activities.  It enables them to prioritize tasks and achieve efficiency as well as productivity. Accelo, a platform for businesses to manage their service operations, recently partnered with Gusto, an HR technology platform, to make scheduling easier for small business owners and managers.

The integration of the two platforms will enable businesses to achieve significant time savings on administration work, allowing them to shift their focus on client processes. The time-off requests from Gusto will be seamlessly transferred to Accelo’s real-time scheduling and resource management module.

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Accelo specializes in service operation automation (ServOps), helping organizations to streamline their processes through its cloud-based platform. It is used by thousands of businesses to accelerate their client service delivery, boost revenue, and increase the profit margins. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Accelo has offices in Denver, Colorado, and Wollongong, Australia.

Gusto, on the other hand, is an HR technology platform designed to enhance the HR processes in the workplace. Gusto has simplified and personalized complex business tasks by enhancing payroll, benefits, and HR for its customers. It serves over 60,000 companies across the nation. The partnership will allow the businesses to link the scheduling information with the platform used for client work management.

Organization leverage Accelo to schedule and manage multiple clients, projects, and teams in real-time. The integration of Gusto will enable them to draw information from the HR platform and streamline the service business while also reducing downtime.

The partnership is aimed at connecting the critical aspects of a business and reducing the workload of managers. It will enable organizations to achieve operational efficiency, allowing them to focus on providing better services to clients.

The dynamic visual scheduling tools allow businesses to monitor and assess the time taken for different processes and manage them accordingly. It eliminates double or triple-entries across multiple systems when requesting PTO. The companies can leverage the flexible capabilities of the platforms to relocate the project workloads when employees take sick days.

Startups and small businesses are crucial for creating new jobs as well as for economic growth. It is because of platforms such as Accelo and Gusto that these businesses can achieve productivity and efficiency. The integrations have given companies unprecedented growth in terms of automation and profitability.

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