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Manufacturing Work Schedules

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Effective schedule management impacts every aspect of your business, from reducing costs to improving productivity to increasing employee retention. Scheduling software. You need to make sure processes are taking place at the right time, and manufacturing time and attendance software is a good way to do that.

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What Can Employers Learn From Amazon’s Leave Management Problems?

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We’ve identified five key pain points touched upon in the New York Times piece, as well as some ideas about what companies can do to avoid similar situations in their own systems. Integration : One of the biggest root causes of confusion in the Amazon leave management system appears to be that it is, in fact, multiple systems.

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How Flexible Scheduling is Transforming Manufacturing

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As more flexible scheduling options become more and more the standard for the modern workforce, manufacturers are finding new ways to use that flexibility to boost productivity, improve employee retention, and attract higher quality job applicants, among other benefits. Better employee retention and recruiting.

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How On-the-Job Training Helps Blue Collar Employers Boost Productivity

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For sustainable success in maintaining a properly skilled and certified workforce, employers need to supplement their recruitment and hiring efforts with a strategic approach to on-the-job training (OJT). In workforce-driven industries where turnover is high and profit margins can be narrow, those are important budgetary considerations.

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Workforce Optimization Best Practices for Blue Collar Employers in Labor-Driven Industries

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Getting the best out of your employees isn’t something that just happens — optimizing your workforce for maximum profitability, productivity, and operational efficiency requires an active strategy and the right technology to make it a reality. Equipment, technology, and other supplies. Complex schedules and nontraditional shifts.

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Leading Hourly Workforce Transformation in a Post-Pandemic World

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Leaders must proactively develop their employment practices to successfully attract, recruit, and retain the quality and tech-savvy employees they require in order to fulfill the needs of this drastically changing workforce. How Ascentis Time Can Help. High employee turnover can be a sign of a deteriorating business. Reskilling.

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Making a Business Case for Investing in Workforce Management

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That’s often the case with workforce management solutions. Too many organizations are content to make do with a WFM system that’s merely good enough, or even managing these functions by hand. Selling the investment in new technology is never an easy proposition. Year-to-year hiring patterns.