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Why Smarter Employee Scheduling Is Central to Manufacturing’s Comeback

The North American manufacturing sector is experiencing a historic revival. Driven by reshoring momentum, tariff shifts, and pro-industrial energy policies, there’s a wave of new factory builds, domestic supply chain reinvestment, and production realignment underway. Yet amidst rising capital ...

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Labor Laws 2025: Key Changes, Wage Hikes & Compliance Updates

We update this article annually. Explore our previous labor law updates for 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021. As 2025 kicks off, a fresh wave of labor laws and regulations is reshaping workplaces across the country. With a new presidential administration at the helm and evolving societal priorities, busine...

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Balancing the Scales: How Scheduling Software Promotes Workplace Equity

Maintaining fairness and transparency in the workplace continues to be instrumental in meeting the expectations of a modern and socially conscious workforce. Research from Gartner predicts that in 2024, companies will shift DEI implementation to be less siloed and more integrated throughout the orga...

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Employee Scheduling Trends For 2024

Highlights: Workers seek control for better work-life balance through flexible scheduling options like shift choice and splitting. Fair shift allocation improves morale, reduces turnover, and contributes to a positive workplace. Modern scheduling tools with AI enhance efficiency, offer unbiased sche...

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How Scheduling Tech Boosts Retention in Shift-Based Industries

Jennifer Kline Shernoff, vice president of customer experience and marketing of Shiftboard, explores how shift-based industries can tackle high turnover and labor scarcity by prioritizing scheduling flexibility and automation. Shift-based industries are transforming, posing various challenges for HR...

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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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How to Reduce Stress and Improve Job Satisfaction for Union Workers

In early 2023, Shiftboard released its most recent State of the Hourly Worker Report. The research uncovered fascinating findings into the mindset of hourly workers — and offers many takeaways employers can use to create a happier and more engaged workforce. One key theme: the important role flexi...

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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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5 Ways to Increase Workforce Agility to Meet Your Production Targets

By its nature, manufacturing workforce management is multi-faceted and highly dynamic. Especially now, when the new world of work is a massive jigsaw puzzle that changes daily but must be finished at record speed — requiring those in charge to figure out which pieces go where for exactly the right...

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

Workforce Flexibility Series – 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 combat the labor shortag...

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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

Absenteeism, which is generally defined as the repeated pattern of habitual absence from work, has been a decades-long challenge for many companies. However, the problems stemming from absenteeism continue to skyrocket, especially in industries with frontline workers, thanks to the global pandemic a...

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