Understanding the Compressed Work Week: A smart strategy for enhanced staffing and scheduling.
Compressed Work Week (CWW) schedules are gaining popularity in various industries for their ability to provide employees with more time off while maintaining or even enhancing operational efficiency. But is this model right for your business? In this article, we will explore how CWWs work, their benefits and drawbacks, and provide some real-world scenarios to … Continue reading “Understanding the Compressed Work Week: A smart strategy for enhanced staffing and scheduling.”
What is the best schedule?
Answer from Ethan Franklin: While traveling to a client last week, the person sitting next to me on the plane asked me what I do for work. When I explained that I help companies and employees find and implement the best schedule, they immediately asked: So, what is the best schedule? I have been asked … Continue reading “What is the best schedule?”
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in 24/7 Operations
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in 24/7 Operations – What the Employee Surveys Reveal Managing a workforce across different shifts on different days and times – poses unique challenges in a 24/7 operation. From communication hurdles to maintaining a healthy work-life balance, the intricacies of overseeing diverse schedules require a nuanced approach.ย By understanding and … Continue reading “5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in 24/7 Operations”
How to Get HR & Operations Working Together
What can HR and Operations do together to boost production and employee satisfaction? Over decades of working with shift work operations, we have witnessed firsthand the transformative impact of integrating HR and operational strategies on production output, employee management, and job satisfaction. Our experience has confirmed time and again that collaboration between HR and Operations … Continue reading “How to Get HR & Operations Working Together”
Best practices in shiftwork operations (Part 6 of 10)
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Why the countryโs most popular 12-hour schedule has a problem, and how to overcome it
The problem The most popular schedule in the country is the 2-2-3 (also called the 2-3-2 or Every Other Weekend Off). Like most 12-hour schedules, half of the days in the year are scheduled off. However, what sets this schedule apart is the popular feature of having every other weekend off as a 3-day weekend. … Continue reading “Why the countryโs most popular 12-hour schedule has a problem, and how to overcome it”
What companies are asking us as labor scarcity continues
Shiftwork Solutions is still seeing a trend that started in 2020, that labor, not capital, has become the productivity bottleneck. This will continue into the foreseeable future since labor shortages are here to stay. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 10 million unfilled jobs in the United States. In … Continue reading “What companies are asking us as labor scarcity continues”
How to Streamline Shiftwork Scheduling in 2022
The business and labor challenges have been unprecedented over the past two years in the manufacturing and distribution industries โ workforce shortages, supply chain disruption, adopting new protocols, and the Great Resignation. Industries across the board, including transportation and warehousing, have felt the impact of record-high quit rates, which reached 3% in November, according to … Continue reading “How to Streamline Shiftwork Scheduling in 2022”
Best practices in shiftwork operations (Part 5 of 10)
Actively look for way for the workforce to make decisions about their job.ย In most cases, an hourly worker knows more about how to do their job than their supervisor.ย This makes them an excellent source of ideas for improvement.ย Additionally, like all of us, shift workers are more likely to support an idea that … Continue reading “Best practices in shiftwork operations (Part 5 of 10)”
What does work-life balance mean to your employees?
If you have 400 employees, you have around 400 different opinions about what constitutes a good work-life balance. So, how do you go about identifying which ones are the most crucial and what is your plan of action going forward, to address these issues? After more than 30 years of working with shift workers and … Continue reading “What does work-life balance mean to your employees?”