Employee Scheduling Insights Blog Featured 5 Ways Manufacturers Can Improve Workforce Agility to Ensure Production Targets are Met By its nature, workforce scheduling in manufacturing is complex and highly dynamic. It is like a massive jigsaw puzzle that changes daily but must be finished at record speed — requiring those in ch... Read More ›
Hourly Workforce Management: The Secret to Success from America’s Largest Company As an operations pioneer pursuing best-practices in workforce management for over three decades, I believe there’s never been a more exciting time to be in this profession than right now. Data-rich, automated tools are changing the way operations leaders are making strategic decisions, and the res... Read More › 5 Innovative Strategies for Staffing Firms to Improve Profitability In order to maximize profits, staffing companies are looking for ways to be more innovative. Here are five strategies staffing firms can tap to improve their profitability.... Read More › Shiftboard Appoints Connie O’Brien As Vice President of Customer Success Shiftboard, a global leader in employee scheduling and workforce management solutions, today announced the appointment of Connie O’Brien as Vice President of Customer Success. ... Read More › 4 Steps for Preparing Your Workforce to Adopt New Technology As SaaS technology becomes immersed in our everyday lives, many businesses are eager to adopt cloud solutions that promise to boost their productivity and maximize their efficiency. While some employees easily adapt to new technology, most are naturally resistant to change. Advancing cloud-technolog... Read More › Predictive Scheduling: The Good, The Bad, and The Complicated More and more, new labor laws affecting hourly workers are emerging across the United States. Each new law brings with it a hefty fine for those organizations caught unaware. If you are still grappling with how to best comply with the new regulations around predictive scheduling, read on. We’ll cl... Read More › Shiftboard Expands into Europe to Help Enterprises Lower Labor Costs, Improve Employee Satisfaction Expansion of cloud-based scheduling and hourly workforce management solution is backed by new regional team, multi-language support and GDPR compliance SEATTLE – July 17, 2018 – Shiftboard, a global leader in employee scheduling and workforce management solutions, today announced its exp... Read More ›
Insights by Industry Manufacturing 5 Ways Manufacturers Can Improve Workforce Agility to Ensure Production Targets are Met By its nature, workforce scheduling in manufacturing is complex and highly dynamic. It is like 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 fit, as quickly as possible. Even wit... Read More › Energy 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 ... Read More › Healthcare The 5 Myths of Overtime Management: How to Make OT Work For, Not Against, Your Business The concept of overtime is a familiar one, especially in the United States. It’s woven into many companies and work cultures, and it’s an especially important aspect of front-line operations in always-on industries like oil and gas, manufacturing, healthcare, and public safety. In fact, in the o... Read More ›
Manufacturing 5 Ways Manufacturers Can Improve Workforce Agility to Ensure Production Targets are Met By its nature, workforce scheduling in manufacturing is complex and highly dynamic. It is like 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 fit, as quickly as possible. Even wit... Read More › Energy 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 ... Read More › Healthcare The 5 Myths of Overtime Management: How to Make OT Work For, Not Against, Your Business The concept of overtime is a familiar one, especially in the United States. It’s woven into many companies and work cultures, and it’s an especially important aspect of front-line operations in always-on industries like oil and gas, manufacturing, healthcare, and public safety. In fact, in the o... Read More ›