About Legion
Legion is a hosted workforce management platform for employers with hourly staff. It uses AI to forecast demand and build schedules, aiming to lower labor costs while keeping employees engaged by taking their availability and preferences into account.
The product suite spans planning of labor needs, optimized schedules, tracking of time and attendance, and tools that keep employees engaged. Named capabilities include demand forecasting, labor optimization, automated scheduling, InstantPay for earlier access to earned wages and a control center for oversight. Use cases highlighted by the vendor include optimizing labor costs, automating workforce sharing across locations and minimizing compliance risk.
Legion serves convenience stores, restaurants, retail, hospitality, healthcare, facilities management, health and fitness, pet care and early childhood education. It is a commercial product sold through demos, with research reports and a resource library available from the vendor.
Key features
- AI demand forecasting
- Automated shift scheduling
- Labor planning and optimization
- Time and attendance management
- Employee engagement tools
- Earned wage access with InstantPay
- Workforce sharing across locations
Good fit for
- →Restaurant and retail chains optimizing labor cost
- →Multi-site operators sharing staff between locations
- Tags
- workforce-management
- scheduling
- forecasting
- labor-optimization
- ai
- hourly-workforce
- saas
Legion: questions and answers
- What is Legion used for?
- Legion uses AI to forecast demand, build shift schedules and optimize labor for employers in retail, restaurants, healthcare and other hourly industries. It is a good fit for restaurant and retail chains optimizing labor cost, and multi-site operators sharing staff between locations.
- How much does Legion cost?
- Legion doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Legion open source?
- No. Legion is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Legion include Staffjoy Suite.
- What are some alternatives to Legion?
- Legion competes with Quinyx, Deputy and Shiftboard. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Legion alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Legion
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Staffjoy Suite
Scheduling
Staffjoy V1, aka "Suite" - a scheduling application for hundreds of workers
OSSvs When I Work★ 858
Cal.diy
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Rallly
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Easy!Appointments
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:date: Easy!Appointments - Self Hosted Appointment Scheduler
GPL-3.0vs Calendly★ 4.4k
Pretalx
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Conference planning tool: CfP, scheduling, speaker management
OSSvs Cvent★ 946
Thunderbird Appointment
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Invite others to grab times on your calendar. Choose a date. Make appointments as easy as
MPL-2.0vs Calendly★ 553
SaaS alternatives to Legion
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Quinyx
Scheduling
Workforce management platform for scheduling, forecasting and time reporting
SaaS
Deputy
Scheduling
Shift scheduling, timesheets and attendance for hourly teams
SaaS
Shiftboard
Scheduling
Workforce scheduling for shift-based and field teams
SaaS
7shifts
Scheduling
Restaurant team scheduling with labor cost tracking and time clocks
SaaS
UKG
HR & Recruiting
Workforce management, payroll and HR for large employers
SaaS
Dayforce
HR & Recruiting
Cloud HCM and payroll platform, formerly Ceridian
SaaS

