ESP: Employee Scheduling Program

Designing labor schedules by hand is a frustrating and time-consuming process. But there's a better way. ESP: the labor scheduling solution from ThoughtWorks.

  • Save labor cost
  • Avoid labor law conflicts
  • Save hours of management time each week
  • Avoid missed shifts
  • Improve employee morale
  • Increase scheduling accuracy

Juggling your labor forecasting and scheduling requirements can be one of your manager’s biggest headaches. Accurately predicting your labor and sales patterns is only the beginning. Crew turnover and ever-changing availabilities can make scheduling the right employee at the right time a frustrating and time-consuming task. What’s worse, if you inadvertently break a labor law, you could face severe fines and penalties.

The solution is ESP, the Employee Scheduling Program from ThoughtWorks. ESP solves all of your scheduling problems and gets your managers back on the floor where they belong. ESP learns about your operation, your volume patterns and your crew abilities. Then, precisely and accurately places your crew when and where you need them. All while cutting up to one percent from your labor costs and helping you maintain the highest standards of customer service.

If you’re spending more than thirty minutes a week producing your weekly crew schedule, it’s time for a change: Put ESP to work for you and you’ll have your manager back on the floor in record time.

ESP is ideal for companies whose work force is composed predominantly of part-time, wage-paid employees. ThoughtWorks has been providing labor scheduling solutions for over twenty years, and ESP is used in over 3,000 locations, in thirty countries and six languages.

Put us to work for you…for free!

We’re so confident that ESP will save you thousands of dollars and hundreds of management hours that you can test a fully-functioning copy of ESP for free, for up to sixty days in your location. If you’re not convinced at the end of the trial period, you have no obligation to buy. But we think you’ll want to keep it.

Put us to the test: Try ESP free for sixty days at your location. You have nothing to lose, and a more efficient operation to gain.

Discover for yourself why ESP is the easiest, quickest and most user-friendly crew scheduling software available.

Begin your free 60-day, no obligation trial today

Learn more about ESP 5:

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Price list
Product description
Sample reports
System requirements


Released versions

ESP 5

Current release: 5.1.0.514
Release date: January 28, 2010

Download ESP 5 program file
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Support for ESP 5

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Version 4

Last released version: V4.11 R7

Updates for Version 4 were discontinued when ESP 5 was released. The information below is for customers already using Version 4; new customers should refer to ESP 5 above.

Version 4 program files
Spreadsheets, documents and utilities for Version 4
Support for Version 4


Although support for customers using Version 4 is still available; version 4 users should upgrade to ESP 5. Customers on our supportPLUS+ plan may upgrade at no additional cost, unsupported customers must pay a fee to upgrade. See the sidebar for links to learn more about ESP 5, including the upgrade benefits.


Upgrade from Version 4 to ESP 5

With the release of ESP 5 updates to Version 4 have been discontinued; use the links below to learn the benefits of upgrading and for help upgrading from V4 to ESP5.

Benefits of upgrading to ESP 5
Upgrading from V4 to ESP5

 

Learn more about ESP 5:

Benefits & features
Free 60-day, no obligation, trial
Price list
Product description
Sample reports
System requirements


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For further information or for help installing or upgrading to ESP 5 contact us.