# Humanity — Employee Scheduling

Humanity by Humanity, Inc. (a TCP Software company) holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-21. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Humanity, Inc. (a TCP Software company) (https://www.humanity.com)
- Category: [Employee Scheduling](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/humanity
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/humanity/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/humanity/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-21 · oldest source captured 2026-10-20

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Humanity, Inc. (a TCP Software company)
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Humanity is an employee scheduling product of Humanity, Inc., a TCP Software company, contracting as TimeClock Plus, LLC of San Angelo, Texas. It is strongest on rostering mechanics: roster planning runs 4-7, and staff self-service and payroll and integrations each sit at a flat 5 — a mobile app covers time-off requests, shift release and availability, open shifts are posted and approved from the phone, and connectors to ADP, Oracle, Workday and BambooHR appear alongside an open API. Weakest are working time rules at a flat 3 — compliance is claimed generically and no specific rule is named — and sovereignty at 0-1, where the captured pages leave hosting region and subprocessors unstated and transfers rest on Data Privacy Framework certification and standard contractual clauses. The genuine split is roster planning: the payroll officer scored 7 for a tool that auto-builds schedules and matches qualified staff, while the frontline employee scored 4, citing labour cost visible only in reports and a forecast with no named data source. Weighted totals span 3.2-4.6; pricing transparency scores 0-2, with a trial request and no public price figure.

**Speaks for it:**
- Roster planning scores 4-7, on advertised AI demand forecasting, auto-built schedules, qualified-staff matching and open shifts posted from the mobile app.
- Staff self-service scores a flat 5, with time-off requests, shift release and availability adjustment from a mobile app and updates by email, app and SMS.
- Payroll and integrations scores a flat 5, with named connectors to ADP, Oracle, Workday and BambooHR, an open API, and client-hosted data disclosed to payroll processors on client instruction.
- The privacy policy names what is stored — pay rates, union affiliation, clock-in and clock-out times and locations — with a retention policy, secure deletion on expiry and biometric data permanently deleted within three years of last interaction.

**Held against it:**
- Working time rules scores a flat 3, with compliance claimed generically and no specific rule — daily hour limits, 11-hour rest, breaks, earnings limits — named on the captured pages.
- Sovereignty scores 0-1: the contracting entity is TimeClock Plus, LLC of San Angelo, Texas, with hosting region and subprocessors unstated on the captured pages and transfers resting on Data Privacy Framework certification and standard contractual clauses.
- Co-determination and privacy scores 3-4, with no public information on configurable visibility of absence reasons or location, an audit log of views and changes, or switching location tracking off.
- Labour cost appears only in reports, with no public information on cost against budget while planning, the data source behind the AI forecast, or coverage gaps shown before publication.
- No German payroll path — DATEV or Lohn und Gehalt — appears on the captured pages, nor wage-type or surcharge mapping or a lock step before transmission.

**Best for:**
- You need demand-driven roster building with automatic schedules, qualified-staff matching and open shifts managed from a mobile app.
- Your payroll or HR stack already includes ADP, Oracle, Workday or BambooHR, or you plan to build on the open API.
- You want staff handling their own time-off requests, shift releases and availability, with schedule updates by email, app and SMS.

**Avoid if:**
- You need named working-time rules — daily hour limits, an 11-hour rest period, break rules — before trusting the conflict checks; we found no public information naming any.
- You need EU-based processing or a published subprocessor list for availability, absence and clock-in location data; we found no public information on either.
- You must supply a works council with configurable data visibility, an audit log of views, or monitoring functions that can be switched off.
- Your payroll runs on a German system such as DATEV and you expect the connector to be provided; we found no public information on a German payroll path.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Shift Manager | The Operations Director | The Payroll Officer | The Works Council Advocate | The Frontline Employee | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roster building & demand planning | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Working-time law & collective agreements | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Mobile self-service for deskless staff | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Works council & employee data | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Payroll handoff & integrations | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Shift Manager** (v1.0): Builds next week's roster for a restaurant or store on Thursday night and fields the sick calls on Saturday morning. Wants templates, qualifications that stop the wrong person landing on the till, open shifts staff can claim, and a rest period warning before publication rather than after the inspection.
- **The Operations Director** (v1.0): Answers for labour cost across thirty locations in retail, hospitality or care. Wants demand-based planning from real POS or occupancy data, labour cost against budget while the plan is still editable, and staff shared across sites. Reads "AI-powered scheduling" as a request to see the method.
- **The Payroll Officer** (v1.0): Turns the worked month into DATEV and answers for every surcharge. Cares about night, Sunday and holiday supplements from the Tarifvertrag, Minijob limits caught before the month closes, and corrections after the close. Treats "CSV export" as an admission that the handoff was never designed.
- **The Works Council Advocate** (v1.0): Co-determines how hours and overtime are distributed and how staff are monitored (BetrVG §87), and will not sign a works agreement for a system that watches more than it plans. Asks who sees absence reasons, what the app stores about location, what is logged and when it is deleted. Reads "performance insights" as a warning.
- **The Frontline Employee** (v1.0): Works part-time shifts next to a second job or a degree and never opens a laptop at work. Judges the product by its phone app: can she mark availability, swap a shift without three calls, see her hours, and read it in her own language. A roster she learns about from a photo in a group chat has failed.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read a great many pages saying the product "supports" the Arbeitszeitgesetz and wants to know whether it blocks a violation, warns about it, or merely exports it. Reads for which tier the time clock and the DATEV export sit in, how seasonal staff are counted per employee, and what the forecasting "AI" actually uses as input.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Biometric no sale: no [S2]
- Covered websites: TCPSoftware.com · Humanity.com · Aladtec.com · ScheduleAnywhere.com · WhenToWork.com · Timeco.com [S2]
- Data breach notification: reasonable period as required by applicable law · yes [S2]
- Dpf certified: EU-U.S. DPF · UK Extension · Swiss-U.S. DPF · yes · TimeClock Plus, LLC · Humanity.com, Inc. [S2]
- Ftc enforcement: yes [S2]
- Policy last updated: 2026-04-06 [S2]
- Policy sub policies: 3 · yes · yes [S2]
- Terms of service reference: https://tcpsoftware.com/legal [S2]
- Transfer mechanisms: DPF certification verification · standard contractual clauses (Art. 46 GDPR) · prior consent [S2]

**Data**
- Biometric retention: whichever occurs first · permanently delete · 3 [S2]
- Deletion requests: yes · yes [S2]
- No sale: no [S2]
- Retention policy: securely deleted or destroyed · yes [S2]

**Integrations**
- Named systems: yes · ADP · Oracle · Workday · BambooHR [S1]

**Legal**
- Entity name: TimeClock Plus, LLC · TCP Software [S2]

**Pricing**
- Page presence: yes · yes [S1]

**Product**
- AI shift planning: AI capabilities forecast demand, auto-build compliant schedules, match staff to shifts [S1]
- Biometric authentication: some TCP products utilize biometric authentication; TCP may host client-collected biometric data [S2]
- Compliance rules: yes · yes · yes [S1]
- Demand forecasting: yes [S1]
- Disclosure to integrations: client-hosted data may be disclosed to payroll processors, benefits administration providers, and ERP vendors on client instruction [S2]
- Employee self service: request_time_off · release_shifts · adjust_availability [S1]
- EU special category data: yes [S2]
- Hosting on behalf of clients: yes [S2]
- Industries served: K-12 education · Higher education · Government · Public safety · Hospitality · Retail · Healthcare · Business services · Manufacturing · Construction · Small business · Enterprise [S1]
- Labor cost reporting: reports · real_time_schedule_adjustments [S1]
- Mobile app: yes · yes [S1]
- Profile data processed: hosts profile data including pay rates, work schedules, employment classification, labor union affiliation [S2]
- Related products: TimeClock Plus · Humanity Schedule · Aladtec · Humanity Time · Time clock hardware [S1]
- Service data processed: hosts service data including clock-in/out time and location, leave requests, leave accruals, FMLA cases, hours worked [S2]
- Shift notifications: email · mobile app · SMS [S1]

## Questions

### Is Humanity European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Humanity is based.

### Where does Humanity store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

### Does Humanity have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Humanity?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Bizimply (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/bizimply), [gastromatic (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/gastromatic) and [Shiftbase (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/shiftbase) highest among the other 25 Employee Scheduling products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [gastromatic](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/gastromatic) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Humanity alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/humanity/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 3 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 legal fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.humanity.com (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S2] Privacy policy — found from the homepage: https://tcpsoftware.com/privacy-policy/ (checked 2026-10-20)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Humanity — Employee Scheduling", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/humanity

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