Be prepared for your peak season! When your business processes are running smoothly, you will ensure timely delivery of your products or services, and will maintain the satisfaction of your customers. Relying on temporary staff can help you staff up during your busy season, but also prevent overstaffing once things slow back down. Staffing agencies supply highly experienced individuals that can fill any workforce gaps.
Planning for Success.
To gain a solid understanding of your peak periods and an estimate of your staffing needs, consider the following:
- Do your homework. You cannot staff effectively without an idea of your required production volumes and top products during your busy season. Communicate with your department heads to get the information you need. For help, follow these steps:
- Determine the amount of output your average worker can generate in a day. This could be calls taken, boxes packed, customers served, reports generated, etc.
- Estimate the average output your business will need to generate in a day during its busy season.
- Divide the quantity from step two by the quantity from step one. This will give you an idea of how many workers you will need to staff during each day of your busy season.
- Divide and conquer. Map out the process your workers follow to complete their daily tasks. Divide the process into a series of steps and determine the skill set required to fulfill each step. Your full-time employees may be best-suited to more experience-intensive tasks, while temporary staff can be placed with more administrative tasks.
- Take a “staggered” approach. Begin staffing with temporaries well in advance of the increased work volume of your busy season. Also, do not introduce too many temporary staff to your workforce at once, but instead stagger their addition to your team. This way, your temporary employees have time to acclimate to your work environment and process, as well as their new teammates, before your company’s workload increases dramatically.
- Cover your full timers. When full-time staff members take vacations, or are out of work due to medical or maternity leaves, you may be left with workforce gaps. Plan ahead for temporary fill-ins during these times.
The Benefits of Temporary Staffing.
When you hire temporary placements, you’re giving your company a financial edge in the following ways:
- Time savings. Staffing agencies have already interviewed, screened and hired the employees they’re placing you with. You receive a qualified industry professional who’s ready to work.
- Benefit savings. Temporary employees receive healthcare and other benefits from their employer, the staffing agency.
- Turnover prevention. With adequate staffing, your full timers will not be overworked and stressed out, conditions that might cause them to seek new employment.
- A stronger end product. A staff with good work-life balance has higher morale. This can add to productivity, teamwork, idea sharing and creativity, strengthening your end product.
Be prepared to staff up for your busy season! For more information about high caliber professional temporaries, contact a Snelling Georgia recruiter today.
