Even if Wal-Mart still uses a pencil and paper to produce their employee schedules, they might still implement policies and procedures that could be viewed as promoting their own corporate interests. The promotional literature that we provide regarding our product does directly address organizational scheduling needs. However, such needs include taking the employees personal life into perspective as well. An example is the priority given to personal conflicting events such as night school, taking care of sick parents, weddings etc. Such issues are promoted at our website (www.asgardsystems.com), in our free trial version and our instructional movies. I am very pleased to say that, most employers express the need of having to contend with the humanistic aspects of managing an organization. Their needs dictate our products design and the design of our competitors’ products as well.

I completely agree, it’s not about software. In fact, if Wal-Mart wasn’t using computers to schedule their hundred’s of thousands of workers, I’d be disappointed. It’s a clear place where computer power can be used to great advantage.

The issue with Wal-Mart (and so many other companies) is their attitude about employees, which never ceases to amaze me. “Always low prices. Always” seems to spread to their HR department too… Not a good thing.