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Keeping Track Of a Changing Staff
The idea of hiring a new server, Sous Chef or busboy—and having that person remain with your restaurant for years—is an appealing one. The reality of life in the restaurant industry, however, is quite different. Employee turnover is high, due to workers going back to school, starting a family, finding an office job, suffering from…
Read More »Empower Your Staff To Schedule Their Own Coverage
As a manager at a medical facility, it’s your job to create weekly work schedules for a wide range of staff members—doctors, nurses, LNA, medical assistants, pharmacists, and so many more. You take your job very seriously, always attempting to meet the staff’s requests for time off, vacations, and preferred shifts. This is a daunting…
Read More »Ensuring the Right Number of Workers on Every Shift
All businesses have both slow and busy seasons/days/hours, however retail companies are hit hardest by dramatic swings in customer traffic. It can be a struggle to create a schedule that includes the optimal coverage for every shift. You don’t want to schedule too many people during the slower times—that would be too costly to your…
Read More »Scheduling the Right Hospitality Worker at the Right Time
As a manager of a facility that operates in the hospitality industry—such as a hotel, restaurant or meeting/convention center—you need to oversee a wide variety of workers: Wait staff/servers Maids and housekeepers Chefs and cooks Front desk staff Bellhops Meeting planners Concierges And many more It’s not only your job to train these folks to…
Read More »Back-to-School Scheduling—Making the Adjustments
As we are now in September, students have one thing on their minds—going back to school. That means shopping for new clothes, book bags, notebooks, pens, pencils, and all manner of “school stuff.” For personnel managers at educational facilities—elementary schools, vocational high schools, private high schools, colleges and universities—going back to school means something a…
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