Why monday.com Falls Short for Scheduling and What to Use Instead

Olaf Jacobson

Founder & Business Development, Soon

This Isn’t a Project. It’s People. Stop Scheduling Like It’s Just Tasks.

monday.com is built for projects.
Soon is built for teams.
Real people. Real shifts. Real stakes.

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Still Fighting Your Schedule Every Friday at 5 PM?

You know the moment.

Last-minute changes.
Shift swaps.
Sick calls.
Broken automations.
Manual chaos.

You’re not managing a task board. You’re managing people. And your current tool isn’t keeping up.

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monday.com Is Great ... Until It Isn’t

We’re not here to bash Monday
It’s flexible. It’s powerful. It’s a great project tool.

But when it comes to scheduling your people?
To managing labor laws, fairness, fatigue, and real-time chaos?

It breaks.

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Soon Gets It. Because It Was Built For It

⚙️ Auto-Scheduling That Thinks Like You Do
Let AI handle fairness, compliance, and logic, while you get your time back.
⚖️ Built-in Compliance Guardrails
Union rules, legal breaks, fatigue management, enforced automatically.
🔁 Shift Swaps That Don’t Suck Your Time
Set the rules. Let the team self-manage. You stay in control, without the admin load.
🔮 See Problems Before They Happen
Forecast gaps and overstaffing before it costs you time, money, or sleep.

The Comparison That Says It All

Feature	Soon	monday.com
Primary Use Case	Workforce Scheduling & Management	Project & Task Management
Auto-Scheduling	✅ AI-powered	❌ Manual setup with automations
Shift Planning	✅ Built-in roles & templates	🟡 Task workaround
Compliance Support	✅ Guardrails built in	❌ Manual and error-prone
Real-Time Adjustments	✅ Intraday support	❌ Not supported
Ease of Use	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	⭐⭐

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Don’t Take Our Word For It

“We were forcing monday.com to be a scheduler. It wasn’t. Switching to Soon felt like a weight off our shoulders. We had our first schedule done in 20 minutes, not 2 days.”
— Ops Manager, 90-person team

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If You’ve Felt This… You’re Ready for Soon

You’ve become the unofficial Chief Spreadsheet Officer.
You dread another week of fixing broken automations.
You want to spend more time leading, and less time dragging blocks around.

Then Soon is your tool.

‍Let’s be honest: Nobody likes Mondays.

Using monday.com for scheduling? That’s like using a butter knife to cut a steak. Technically possible, but deeply unsatisfying 😅

Ready to Switch?

Stop forcing a square peg into a round hole.
Your people deserve better. So do you.

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