Your workforce isn’t just your permanent team anymore. It’s full-time, part-time, flexi, student, temp, freelancer — different contracts, different agencies, different rules. Demand Hub is the place where every flexible need gets seen, communicated, and filled. Internal pool first, staffing partners after. One overview. One workflow. One source of truth.
Permanent, seasonal, temp, flexi, student, freelancer. Multi-location, multi-shift, multi-agency. Demand Hub gives HR, plant managers, and shift leads the same view of who’s working when — and what’s still uncovered. No more piecing it together from spreadsheets, magnet boards, and the call you forgot to make.
Every open need flows the same way: bookU checks the internal pool first, then routes what’s left to your staffing partners — one or many, based on rules you set. Performance, sector, location, contract type. No more emailing four agencies and waiting to see who answers first.
Demand Hub doesn’t replace HR. It removes the parts of the job that shouldn’t exist in 2026 — the daily call-around, the manual data re-entry, the dependency on individual memory — so the strategic work has room.
The day’s planning enters bookU once — typed by the people closest to the work, not relayed through HR. Every contract type lives in the same view. Every location feeds the same overview.
bookU runs the routing logic so HR doesn’t have to. Internal pool gets priority. Partners get the right gap based on what they’re best at filling. You see who’s responding, who’s confirming, and what’s still open — live.
Once a shift is filled — from the internal pool or via a partner — workers get their schedule, location, and instructions in their app. Time registration syncs to your existing system (ProTime, others). Contracts generate automatically. The loop between demand and payroll closes without anyone manually bridging it.
When your workforce doubles overnight, you need more than a whiteboard.
At Libeert, the fourth-generation Belgian chocolatier in Komen, the workforce nearly doubles every Easter and Sinterklaas — 90 permanent staff plus roughly 130 seasonal and temp workers. For decades, the planning was a physical magnet board in the production hall. Every day around midday, a shift lead photographed the board, and HR started calling temps and the in-house staffing partner to plug the gaps. “There was always stress around that moment,” says HR-director Désirée Libeert. “If someone didn’t pick up, we had an immediate risk of a shortage.” With bookU, shift leads now plan digitally, workers get their schedule by email, the AGO staffing partner is connected directly to open needs, and the workflow integrates with ProTime for time registration. The board is gone. The stress went with it.