During our 30+years of cross-industry experience we have found that once unemployment drops below 6%, companies find it hard to staff adequately to meet production demands. At the current 3.6% unemployment rate [1] a labor shortage is the single biggest … Read the rest
Category: Human Resource Management
Shift schedules affect many aspects of Human Resource Management. Understanding how to improve your shift schedule will help you recruit, retain, and manage your workforce.
Have you Made Your Business Resolutions Yet?
If you want happier employees this year, you may consider doing some things differently than last year. Otherwise, if you do what you did, you’ll get what you got. Employee engagement, better-work life balance, and improved communication might be at … Read the rest
Shiftwork Solutions Survey System
If you are like most successful companies, you have made Employee Engagement a top priority. You have a participative environment that invites the workforce to share in the creation and therefore, ownership of solutions to operational issues and problems.
Then, … Read the rest
If you are like most successful companies, you have made Employee Engagement a top priority. You have a participative environment that invites the workforce to share in the creation and therefore, ownership of solutions to operational issues and problems.
Then, … Read the rest
Why Your 12-hour Schedule is More Attractive than You Think
If you are a Human Resources Manager, then you are well aware of the difficulty in finding quality employees in today’s tight labor market. You and everyone else in your local area are competing for an ever-shrinking pool of potential … Read the rest
When should your shifts start?
As a Plant Manager or Human Resources Manager, in a shiftwork operation, you’ve certainly heard “Everyone that I know wants to start the shifts at such-and-such a time.” You hear this but the question is – What do you do … Read the rest
Overtime: A Grab-Bag of Information
If you manage a shiftwork operation or if you are a Human Resource manager in a shiftwork operation or if you are a shift worker then – Overtime is a big deal.
Based on my 30 years of experience … Read the rest
Our Clients Are Talking
Every now and then, we like to make sure that organizations not only recognize our knowledge about shift work and the change management process around it but they feel assured that we bring that high level of expertise to the … Read the rest
