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Strategies to Bolster Employee Recruitment in the New World of Work

Attracting and Retaining Manufacturing Talent Today – Part 3 We recently invited four HR and operations leaders to join us for a roundtable discussion about attracting and retaining manufacturing talent amid the current labor shortage. Our blog series has examined the drivers of labor scarcity...

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Recruitment and Retention Strategies in Today’s Tight Labor Market

Attracting and Retaining Manufacturing Talent Today – Part 2 Attracting and retaining quality workers is top of mind for anyone in the manufacturing industry today. To dig deep into how to tackle this critical subject, Shiftboard tapped the insights of four HR and operations leaders in manufac...

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The Drivers of Today’s Labor Shortage and the Impact on Recruitment

Attracting and Retaining Manufacturing Talent Today – Part 1 Why is it so hard to attract and retain employees in the manufacturing industry? What’s driving the labor shortage — and why is it so pervasive? What can companies do to overcome these challenges? To answer these pressing questio...

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How to Manage the Complexity of Fair Overtime Distribution

The concept of “overtime” in the U.S. has been around long before the term originated. As far back as 1890, average weekly hours for full-time manufacturing workers could be tracked as high as 100 hours. Although overtime scheduling remains mission-critical, it has since taken a seat as one of s...

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Fatigue Risk Management in 24/7 Industries: What You Need to Know

Contrary to widely-held opinion, fatigue is not the same as feeling tired or drowsy. Fatigue scientists describe it as a state of impairment, compromising a person’s physical, mental, and emotional tolerances. On a worksite, fatigue affects a worker’s alertness and ability to perform even routin...

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Shiftboard and Randstad In-House Services Partner to Address Labor Shortages

The joint initiative empowers companies to achieve a retention-based approach to securing contingent talent in today’s competitive labor market. SEATTLE – Aug.17, 2021 – Shiftboard, a leading provider of enterprise workforce scheduling software for organizations with 24/7 operations, and Rands...

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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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Shiftboard Appoints Travis Shipley as Chief Revenue Officer

SEATTLE – June 1, 2021 – Shiftboard, a leading provider of enterprise workforce scheduling software for organizations with 24/7 operations, today announced the appointment of Travis Shipley as chief revenue officer (CRO). As Shiftboard’s CRO, Shipley is responsible for driving worldwide revenu...

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How to Adapt Workforce Capacity to Meet Peak Demand

Even as employment rates stabilize, manufacturers and other 24/7 industries such as energy and healthcare still face a highly competitive labor market. These always-on operators need the ability to run lean and be more adaptive to ever-changing conditions. They must learn how to efficiently utilize ...

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API RP 755: The Why, What, and How of This Fatigue Standard

Why Was API RP 755 Created? If you think safety program management is expensive for an oil and gas company, an accident involving employees and others can be even more costly to the company long term. In petroleum industries in particular, having clear safety rules and regulations for the workplace ...

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4 Effective Scheduling Strategies to Increase Workforce Flexibility at Your Chemical Plant

The shortage of skilled labor has been a long-standing concern for the chemical industry. Scrambling to cover unexpected shift openings to meet minimum staffing and safety requirements is a daily challenge for many team leaders. COVID-19 has exacerbated the situation with short-notice worker absence...

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