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How to Write an RFP to Find the Best Employee Scheduling Software

Creating a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a SaaS scheduling solution tailored to complex, regulated, and unionized workforces can seem daunting. However, it’s essential to finding a vendor who can truly meet your organization’s needs and help you transition to automated scheduling. Why is a Well...

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5 Scheduling Strategies to Reduce Stress for Today’s Hourly Workers

Scheduling today’s hourly workforce can feel like piecing together a complex puzzle. Managers must grapple with employee scheduling preferences, high turnover, and absenteeism, all while ensuring adequate staffing across all shifts. On top of these issues, some industries such as manufacturing, fa...

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The Key to Retaining Hourly Workers? It’s Their Schedule

Imagine for a moment that nearly half of your workforce has threatened to quit. What if their demands were as simple as wanting more say over their work schedule? This scenario is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Our recent report, The State of the Hourly Worker, uncovered some startling numbers: ...

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The Role of Flexibility in Boosting Job Satisfaction and Retention in the Manufacturing Industry

It’s no secret the manufacturing industry has long been known for rigid work schedules. A big part of the reason is because of the demands of geo-locked work environments like manufacturing plants. To keep production lines — and businesses — running properly, organizations need shifts fill...

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How to Navigate Today’s Labor Landscape in Complex Industries: A Roundtable Discussion

The end of a year and the start of a new one is an ideal time for contemplation, reflection, and change, both on the personal level and for organizations as a whole. In 2023, even with the labor shortage easing, workforce managers will continue to contend with many of the same challenges that emerge...

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Launching a Workforce Flexibility Initiative? Here’s What You Need to Know

Combat Labor Shortages Through Workforce Flexibility – Part 2 We recently completed another installment of our Manufacturing Leaders Roundtable Series with four manufacturing experts from HR, supply chain, and labor consultancy disciplines, focusing on the role of workforce flexibility in helping ...

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Top 3 Chemical Industry Challenges: How Employee Scheduling Automation Helps

Digitalization is a buzzword that resonates with all industries, but it’s an especially hot topic for chemical manufacturers today. So much so that analysts expect to see a surge of digitalization initiatives get underway in the short term. Workforce scheduling is one such initiative that is gaini...

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4 Proactive Strategies to Manage Absenteeism: A Best Practices Guide

There are several ongoing challenges in the current workforce landscape. Amid a competitive labor market, employers now recognize that laborers’, are demanding a better work-life balance as well as engagement, fairness, and flexibility. These new worker expectations are more disparate now, too, co...

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How to Improve Labor Utilization During Peak Demand

Even with today’s high unemployment, manufacturers and other 24/7 industries such as healthcare and energy are facing an ongoing labor shortage. U.S. manufacturing activity reached its highest level in 37 years in March 2021, and the sector has more than half a million job openings. By 2025, some ...

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How to Improve Staff Retention

Hourly Worker Retention Series – Part 4 This can be read as a stand-alone article and as part of our Hourly Worker Retention Series. How you nurture the quality of employee relationships is similar to nurturing personal relationships. When you meet someone new, for example, you find yourself very ...

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What Do Hourly Employees Want in Their Work Schedule?

Hourly Worker Retention Series – Part 3 This can be read as a stand-alone article and as part of our Hourly Worker Retention Series. Think of how you feel after spending hours on a complex puzzle only to realize you are missing a piece. This scenario is much like the challenges a manager faces whe...

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How Scheduling Technology Relieves Staffing Challenges of Long-Term Care

Employee scheduling, in and of itself, is an extremely time consuming and complex process. However, within the long-term care industry, employee shift scheduling also involves additional considerations such as severe worker shortages and increased demand for long-term care from an aging population. ...

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