Work Nest

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

$29/month

Or $290/year

Up to 15 employees

  • Basic directory & scheduling
  • Employee onboarding
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Pro

$59/month

Or $590/year

Up to 40 employees

  • Leave records & vacation calendar
  • QR code staff onboarding
  • Employee self-service portal
  • Full reports

Pro Plus

$99/month

Or $990/year

Up to 100 employees

  • Everything in Pro
  • Training & compliance tracking
  • Audit logs
  • Priority support

Pro Max

$179/month

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.