Everything Work Nest Does
One place for schedules, leave, and coverage.
Work Nest is built for residential building staff — doormen, porters, handymen, mail desk — and the supers who manage them. Below is every feature available today, grouped by the job it does.
Dashboard
Open the app and know where the building stands.
- Who is on duty right now, by shift and post
- Who is out today and why
- Requests waiting on your approval, with a running count
- Shifts that still need coverage
- Click any figure to drill into the underlying records
- A setup checklist that walks you through first-time configuration
Scheduling
Build the week around shifts and posts, not a blank grid.
- Day and week views organized by shift time and designated post
- Assign staff to specific posts — doorman, mail desk, cars, porter, or your own
- Select multiple assignments and change the shift, change the post, or delete in one action
- “Covering” badges show at a glance who is standing in for whom
- Schedule a future shift change for an employee and have it apply automatically on the effective date
- Define your own shift times and post names — nothing is hard-coded
Leave & Time Off
Requests come in from phones and land in one queue.
- Thirteen leave types including vacation, sick, personal, union, family, jury duty, bereavement, disability and unpaid
- Real-time balance tracking per employee per leave type
- Vacation allowances that step up by tenure, plus fixed annual allotments you set once
- Colour-coded monthly calendar by role so you can spot a thin week early
- Automatic detection of double-bookings and staffing-limit conflicts
- One-tap approve or deny, with email confirmation to the employee
- Revise or cancel an approved request, with the employee notified of the change
- Per-shift staffing limits that warn you before you approve one absence too many
Shift Coverage & Call-Ins
When someone calls out, the app finds the replacement.
- Assign a call-in directly, or broadcast the open shift to every eligible staff member at once
- Staff accept, decline, or claim the shift straight from the email — first come, first served
- Everyone else is automatically told once it has been taken
- Unclaimed broadcasts escalate to you instead of going quiet
- Automatic reminders to staff ahead of a call-in shift they accepted
- Overtime-eligible volunteer pool with weekly caps, so the same person is not always first in line
- Choose whether coverage comes from your regular staff or a dedicated call-in roster
Shift Swaps
Staff sort coverage between themselves — you keep the final say.
- An employee posts a day they need covered, either openly or addressed to a specific coworker
- The named coworker accepts or declines from their email or the portal
- Nothing takes effect until you approve it
- Both employees are emailed the outcome, so the person covering knows to show up
- Post-mismatch warnings when the replacement normally works a different post
- IOU balance tracking — see at a glance who owes who a day, and which debts have been settled
Staff Directory & Records
Every employee in one place instead of a binder.
- Roles, shift, days off, department, employment type and hire date
- Emergency contact name, phone and relationship
- Locker numbers, employee IDs and free-form notes
- Uploaded documents and certificates kept on the employee record
- Active, inactive and pending-approval status
- Coverage history per employee — what they covered and when
Onboarding
New staff add themselves. You just approve.
- Print the building QR code and post it in the staff room
- Staff scan it and complete their own profile on their phone
- Every new registration lands in a pending queue for your approval — nobody self-admits
- Invite staff by email if you would rather not use the QR code
- Upload your building rules document and have staff sign off digitally
- Every rules agreement is date-stamped and logged on the employee record
Employee Self-Service Portal
The reason the office phone stops ringing.
- Check leave balances and upcoming shifts from any phone
- Submit vacation, sick and personal requests in seconds
- See the status of every request they have made
- Claim open coverage shifts before anyone else
- Request a shift swap, or accept and decline one they have been asked to cover
- Review their own coverage history and completed onboarding
- Mobile-friendly — no app to install
Training & Compliance
Prove the building is current when someone asks.
- Track harassment-prevention course completion per employee
- Staff upload their certificate as a file or photograph it with their phone
- Completion dates held on the employee record alongside the certificate
- Compliance-rate reporting: current, due within 60 days, overdue, and no record on file
- Automatic reminders before a course comes due
- Point the app at whichever course provider your building uses
Reports
Answer the management question in one search.
- Leave usage across any date range
- Sick-day ranking by employee
- Three-day-weekend patterns
- Coverage report — who covered what
- Upcoming vacations, 30 / 60 / 90 days out
- Training compliance
- Full audit log of every action taken in the app
- Download any report as a PDF
Access & Accountability
Everyone sees exactly what they should.
- Admins run the building; staff get a portal scoped to their own records only
- Every request, approval, denial and swap is recorded with a date and a name
- Audit log searchable and exportable
- Manage several buildings from one login, each with its own staff and settings
Set Up For Your Building
Configured to how your building actually runs.
- Define your own designated posts and shift times
- Set maximum staff off per shift, per role
- Create the roles your building uses
- Set vacation tiers by years of service and fixed annual allotments
- Choose where coverage comes from
- Route admin notifications to a shared management mailbox
- Upload your building rules document and set your building name and branding
Simple Pricing
One building, your whole team. Cancel anytime. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial — no card charged until it ends.
Starter
Or $290/year
Up to 15 employees
- Basic directory & scheduling
- Employee onboarding
Pro
Or $590/year
Up to 40 employees
- Leave records & vacation calendar
- QR code staff onboarding
- Employee self-service portal
- Full reports
Pro Plus
Or $990/year
Up to 100 employees
- Everything in Pro
- Training & compliance tracking
- Audit logs
- Priority support
Pro Max
Or $1,790/year
Up to 200 employees
- Everything in Pro Plus
- Custom onboarding
- Dedicated support
Managing more than one building? Each building gets its own plan — pick the size that fits its team.