MakeShift, a leading cloud-based workforce scheduling platform for complex, rules-driven workforces, has formed a strategic partnership with edays, a UK-based leader in absence and HR management. Through this collaboration, edays will integrate MakeShift's scheduling capabilities, enabling UK organisations to manage shift-based work more effectively while minimising compliance risks and operational challenges amid upcoming employment law reforms.
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The partnership arrives as the UK prepares for phased employment law reforms that heighten requirements around predictable working patterns, advance notice for shifts, and protections for variable-hours workers. These changes increase complexity for employers managing flexible, shift-based staffing, where manual processes or inadequate tools can lead to compliance gaps, fatigue risks, and inefficiencies.
MakeShift's platform complements edays' time, absence, and HR capabilities by introducing a rules-driven scheduling engine that automatically enforces policies, employee availability, skills matching, and fatigue limits during schedule building. Integrated AI enhances planning accuracy through demand forecasting, automated optimisation, and self-service features that empower employees and lighten administrative workloads.
Together, the solutions provide a unified approach to workforce management, improving coverage, responsiveness to change, and overall operational efficiency while maintaining strong compliance and employee experience.
"We're excited to partner with edays at a time when workforce complexity and legislative change are top of mind for UK and EU employers," said Adam Greenberg, CEO of MakeShift. "This partnership strengthens our global footprint and reflects MakeShift's commitment to enabling organisations everywhere to schedule with confidence, address regulatory challenges, and improve operational efficiency."
"Workforce scheduling plays a critical role in both compliance and employee experience," said Jon Maddison, CEO of edays. "By offering scheduling powered by MakeShift, we are expanding our ability to help global organisations improve workforce visibility, reduce risk, and streamline people planning alongside edays' world-class absence and HR solutions."
This alliance supports MakeShift's international expansion strategy through targeted partnerships and reinforces its reputation for innovation in complex scheduling environments. edays gains enhanced scheduling depth to better serve its global customer base of over 250,000 users.
About MakeShift
MakeShift (www.makeshift.ca) delivers an award-winning cloud workforce scheduling platform that helps organisations build compliant, transparent schedules in less time. Recognised for its intuitive design and robust rules engine, the platform supports complex environments where labour compliance, skills, fatigue, and regulatory constraints matter most. MakeShift has expanded globally through strategic partnerships and is trusted by organisations across multiple sectors.
About edays
edays (www.e-days.com) is the world's leading absence-focused HR software provider trusted by over 250,000 users worldwide. Purpose-built to reduce absence, inaccuracies in data, compliance risk and admin, edays supports UK and global employers with powerful workforce management tools leading to happier, healthier & more productive employees.
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