System to facilitate communication with casino employees and players and to log data related to employee work

A method of automatically dispatching a person to provide service at one of a plurality of electronic gaming machines on a network of gaming machines:

• populating a database on the network with a list of people;
• associating each person with at least one type of service that he or she is qualified to provide;
• associating each person with a plurality of the gaming machines located in a primary section;
• associating each primary section with a secondary section located relatively near the primary section;
• receiving a signal on the network indicating a type of service is required in the primary section;
• automatically sending a first wireless signal to a device carried by persons in the primary section to determine their availability to provide service;
• and
• if not available, automatically sending a second wireless signal to a person in the secondary section to determine their availability to provide the service.

A method of assigning tasks to people working in a casino comprising:

• creating a list of tasks;
• broadcasting the list of tasks via a wireless network to each of a plurality of such people who are qualified to do the work;
• receiving a first wireless communication from one of the people that he or she is initiating work on the task;
• receiving a second wireless communication from the person who initiated work on the task indicating that the task is complete;
• and
• removing the task from the list.