Company: Quinyx
Founder: Erik Fjellborg
Website: https://www.quinyx.com
About Quinyx
Founded in 2005, Quinyx is a leading AI-powered workforce management platform transforming how organisations manage their deskless and frontline teams. From intelligent scheduling and demand forecasting to real-time communication and employee engagement, Quinyx helps businesses reduce labour costs, boost retention, and improve operational efficiency — simultaneously enhancing the wellbeing of their workforce.
Trusted by global brands including Starbucks, ODEON, and HMV, Quinyx empowers over 1000 companies across 50+ countries, encompassing 54 million scheduled hours, to move beyond spreadsheets and sticky notes – into a future where workforce management is seamless, strategic, and human-centred.
Quinyx is redefining the frontline experience. What began in the back office of a McDonald’s — where founder Erik Fjellborg saw the chaos of manual rotas firsthand — has become a global platform that’s revolutionising how businesses schedule, engage, and support their teams.
Quinyx stands out by delivering:
• AI with real-world impact: Quinyx was an early adopter of AI, recognising that manual scheduling couldn’t keep pace with dynamic staffing needs. Its algorithms are battle-tested in real-world environments — from retail stores to hospitals — delivering measurable results. One retail client reduced payroll processing from two days to just five minutes per store, while Starbucks UK cut scheduling time by 75%. Overall, Quinyx has delivered a 50% reduction in overtime. It demonstrates how using Quinyx helps customers go beyond marginal gains to deliver operational breakthroughs, estimating an ROI of 376%.
• Solving the biggest workforce challenges: Quinyx helps organisations tackle burnout, retention, and compliance – which are among the biggest challenges. In fact, its customers have experienced zero compliance violations. Quinyx’s mobile-first tools give employees fair, flexible rotas and the ability to swap shifts easily, improving engagement and loyalty. For managers, it means less time chasing shift swaps and more time coaching and supporting employees.
• Human-first innovation: Quinyx believes the future of workforce management is invisible tech and visible empowerment. Erik’s bold prediction? By 2050, the quality of rotas will be more important to jobseekers than salary offer. Quinyx is building that future today — where scheduling is as seamless as streaming music and as central to employee wellbeing as pay.
• Strategic foresight: With an ageing, shrinking global workforce and rising demand for flexibility, Quinyx positions intelligent scheduling as a strategic imperative. It delivers an estimated 20% reduction in over and under scheduling via the platform.
• Global scale, local impact: With offices across Europe, the US, and Australia, Quinyx is expanding rapidly — with a strong focus on the UK market. Its platform meets the needs of diverse sectors, from retail and hospitality to healthcare and logistics.
As Quinyx celebrates 20 years, it is scaling forward with a bold vision for the future of frontline work. In 2005, it was solving shift planning problems. Today, with a $3.67 million Net Present Value, Quinyx is solving wellbeing, agility, compliance, and culture challenges.
Incorporating deep AI capabilities and a mobile-first experience, Quinyx is making frontline work fairer, smarter, and more fulfilling, while boosting the bottom line for employers.
