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Manufacturing Work Schedules

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Managing a manufacturing schedule efficiently and effectively requires foresight, adaptability, and close attention to the skills and training required to complete each project. Effective schedule management impacts every aspect of your business, from reducing costs to improving productivity to increasing employee retention.

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Leave Management: A Guide to Improve Employee Leave Management

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There are countless reasons why an employee may need to request time off. Every employee deserves to have sufficient time off from work for various situations, but managing this time-off isn’t always so easy for the business’s side. For the employee, they simply just have to request the time off for a valid reason.

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Leading Hourly Workforce Transformation in a Post-Pandemic World

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Read through to learn all about how you can lead an hourly workforce through the post-pandemic world, or use the links below to navigate the post. How Ascentis Time Can Help. However, returning to the workplace is going to look much different in the post-pandemic world. Covid-19’s Impact on the Workforce. compared to 3.5%.

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

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For employers in fields like manufacturing, construction, healthcare, agriculture, and transport, effective workforce management requires awareness of a number of variables, including: Higher than average rates of turnover. A few common labor costs to account for include: Hourly and salaried employee wages. Human resources logistics.

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4 Ways Blue Collar Employers Can Improve Employee Relations

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Reducing those turnover levels requires an active approach and a willingness by employers to build up stronger employee relations. It’s a well-known fact within skilled labor industries that retaining quality employees is a never-ending challenge. That level of churn can hurt an organization in a number of ways. 2) More Employee Recognition.

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What’s Changing with Workplace Data Collection?

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Consistent, strategic tracking and analysis of employee data is essential to setting key performance indicators (KPIs), increasing efficiency, boosting employee engagement, reducing turnover, and many other vital functions of an active workplace. Data drives the modern working world in ways that would have been unfathomable not so long ago.