Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for use by others for use in workforce management for scheduling employee work schedules, for labor forecasting of employees, for labor budgeting of employees, for the optimization of employee scheduling, for recording and tracking employee time and attendance, for managing employee timecards, for managing time off for employees, for delegating tasks to employees, for managing tasks given to employees, for communicating to employees, for reporting labor of employees, for managing payroll of employees, for calculating and reporting labor metrics of employees, for creating visual dashboards of labor metrics of employees and for calendaring labor schedules of employees