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Rosters that balance compliance, cost, and your people.

Intelligent rostering for shift-based and multi-site businesses. Award-compliant by design.

The short answer

Rostering optimisation is the practice of building staff rosters that match an Australian SME’s actual demand while staying within Modern Award rules on maximum hours, minimum breaks, penalty rates and minimum engagement — so the business is neither overstaffed nor understaffed and labour cost is controlled. At Valont it is one function of a connected back office, delivered inside the people function with each roster validated for Award compliance and costed before it is published.

Costed first

see the labour cost of every roster before you publish it

Demand-matched

staffing built around your actual trading patterns

Award-validated

hours, breaks and penalty triggers checked before publishing

The Challenge

The rostering puzzle.

If you run a shift-based business, rostering is one of your biggest operational challenges. Get it wrong and you are either overstaffed (killing margins) or understaffed (killing customer experience).

Layer on Award compliance — maximum hours, minimum breaks, penalty rate triggers, spread-of-hours provisions — and rostering becomes a weekly puzzle that nobody in your business is qualified to solve optimally. Most shift-based businesses leave real cost savings on the table.

Key Problems

Manual rostering is time-consuming and error-prone

Compliance checking happens after publishing (too late)

No visibility into labour cost implications

Employee satisfaction and retention suffering

How It Works

Our Process

01

Analysis & Planning

We analyse your historical demand data, staffing patterns, and Award constraints. Understanding your business baseline and compliance requirements.

02

Template Development

Roster templates are built around your business patterns with Award compliance baked in. Every roster is compliant by design.

03

Continuous Optimisation

Each week's roster is optimised against demand, availability, and cost targets. You see the cost implications and can compare scenarios.

04

Continuous Improvement

Ongoing analysis identifies patterns and cost improvement opportunities. Which shifts cost more, where you are understaffed, where overspending.

Who This Is For

Shift-Based Businesses

Hospitality, healthcare, retail, aged care, manufacturing, and any business with shift workers, casual employees, or multi-site operations.

Casual Employees

Shift Workers

Multi-Site Operations

Cross-Hub Integration

Connected Workforce Management

Rostering data feeds directly into payroll (People Hub) for accurate pay calculations, into financial reporting (Finance Hub) for labour cost analysis, and into operational planning (Operations Hub) for capacity management and resource scheduling.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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Optimise your rosters for compliance and cost.