Optimize your workforce planning together with your employees—our job app makes it possible. Read more here.
You may be familiar with this scenario: You have a detailed staffing schedule and have figured out which of your employees will be assigned where and when. But unfortunately, one of your employees cancels their scheduled shift. No problem—other employees immediately fill that gap by swapping shifts. Problem solved. However, this results in higher labor costs. Instead of the “cheaper” colleague, someone with a much higher hourly wage will now have to work. This is something you hadn’t factored in beforehand. Our planning tool helps you avoid such problems—in part thanks to our handy job app, which is fully integrated into the workforce management tool. We’ll tell you more about the high level of acceptance of our job app and its many benefits.
Workforce planning for organizations is very complicated. For supermarkets that handle fresh produce, in particular, it is crucial to schedule enough staff to ensure a high level of service. With R&R’s planning tool, you can better manage these processes and your workforce planning. In addition, our job app ensures that employees themselves are involved in this process. Given the labor shortage, this is becoming increasingly important. Employees appreciate having a say and the opportunity to contribute to day-to-day operations.
Our job app makes this possible. With more than 117,000 active users already, it’s no secret that it’s very popular with both companies and employees. Employees and management alike enjoy using our job app because of the many benefits it offers.
Employees want to feel involved in your company—even when it comes to workforce planning. Given the current labor shortage, employee influence over the company is seen as one of the main advantages in attracting new hires. With the Job App, employees can influence the workforce planning process. Employees can easily and conveniently indicate their own availability via the Job App, and their schedules are automatically loaded. The app also allows employees to request time off or swap shifts without complicated processes. The Job App was developed specifically for you and your employees. The app contributes to your employees’ satisfaction, motivation, and productivity, as everything is organized and managed centrally. This way, you avoid the hassle of dealing with various (complicated) channels.
Of course, as a manager, you want to have the final say when necessary. After all, the organization’s interests are somewhat different from those of your employees. While a shift swap is just a simple mouse click for them, it can have significant consequences for you as a company. As we’ve already mentioned, you want to prevent a higher-paid employee from taking over a lower-paid employee’s shift. As a supervisor, you always specify via the Job App whether a shift can and may be swapped in the staffing schedule. This way, you maintain an overview and control.
But the Job App also makes it easy to view hours worked and work schedules. Everything is collected and stored centrally, so you always have the HR management tool at your fingertips.
Communication with employees is always a sensitive issue. Whereas a simple WhatsApp message used to suffice, this has now become complicated due to GDPR regulations. In addition, you lose track of things and no longer have control over the system. The Job App solves this problem as well. As a supervisor, you can use the app to send messages to your employees without violating the GDPR. Employees also receive important notifications when the schedule changes or adjustments are made to staffing plans.
As you can see, our Job App offers many benefits for employees and management. Our workplace management tool ensures that your workforce planning is always carried out in the most effective way possible. Would you like to read more about our Job App? You can do so here. Would you like to read more about how our workforce management tool works in practice?
Companies face the challenge of developing a well-organized and effective workforce planning strategy. This is a particularly significant challenge for supermarkets. To ensure that the right tasks are performed by the right employees at the right time, it is necessary to gather sufficient insights. In our last blog post, we explained how you can get a handle on your workforce planning and staffing with the right planning tool. In this blog post, you’ll learn more about deploying the right staff at the right cost and how you can save money in the process.
