Wrike vs WhenToWork: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Graham. I'm head of Media Operations at EssenceMediacom, and my rating out of five for Wrike is five. So we looked at all kinds of similar systems before choosing Wrike. Monday.com, Visor, Teamwork, Quickbase. None of them really came up to what we really wanted from a system that was going to integrate fully with our systems and support that management workflow from end to end. So the reasons that we chose Wrike is that it was going to help our business through our year of transformation. It was going to help us set tasks and manage tasks and manage that workflow all the way from top to bottom throughout our whole company. It was quite easy to onboard with Wrike. It took somewhere between three to six months. We went into a lot of detail with the Wrike team, they held our hand through the process, and they ended up integrating with the majority of our systems. The advice I would give people who are considering Wrike for their company is it the right fit, is it going to support your management, is it going to integrate with your systems, and is their company the right fit for you?

Greg: Hey, my name is Greg, I'm a lifeguard and I give WhenToWork three out of five stars. For more reviews like this go ahead and click below. So there are a few other options for scheduling in terms of hourly rotation shifts, things like that. And I think a lot of them probably serve the same purpose as WhenToWork, but I've noticed that quite a few employers, especially ones that I've worked with in the past, will tend to build these things internally and that's where I think WhenToWork really comes in and saves the day. There's no need to build something in-house, it's honestly a lot more complicated and it may not work as well. And so I think when it comes to scheduling WhenToWork can really have your back. Yeah, so WhenToWork provides a few different functions that I think make it a relatively good scheduling tool. One, they have a mobile app which is nice. I think more and more people who you work with will have access to a mobile phone, maybe when they don't have access to a computer. But also they take into account different preferences and things like that. So for some employers you may have a really consistent schedule, but for other employers your employees may be rotating through in terms of when they can work. And WhenToWork makes it really easy to say, hey, this is when I am available, this time, and this may be repeating. And then for other employees, it might be like, hey, I'm available here, but on this particular date I'm going to be out of the area. And it makes these things relatively easy and sort of something that until you run into that problem is maybe not as obvious. So I think as with many of these software platform solutions, WhenToWork thrives the most, I think, when you're coming from something that doesn't exist yet. So if you're lucky enough to just be starting out, this is a great solution to just run with. I came in as an employee and was using WhenToWork and had no problems learning how to use it very quickly. It was super easy to use. That said, I wasn't used to using a different platform first. It was sort of what I was just presented with. Yeah. So if you're thinking about purchasing something like WhenToWork or building internally, I'd really consider what your main goal is here. If your hope is to save time and have a really reliable scheduling software, WhenToWork's a good option. I know as someone who enjoys coding, I'd be prone to trying to build my own solution, but scheduling is a really hard problem to solve. And I think WhenToWork gets very close to doing that well, if not better than the alternatives. You have other existing software or human resources management tools, I'd look into if those integrate well. It can make things like payment easier for paying your wages, but on the whole I think it's a really good option.