Your manufacturing facility can adapt to the seasonal demands of work by building a flexible workforce. This flexibility helps your team maintain agility to improve productivity and meet changing customer demands.
Creating a flexible workforce involves adding contingent workers to your team when needed. You can scale up your staffing during busy seasons and scale down when the usual workload resumes.
Discover how your manufacturing facility can adapt to the seasonal demands of work by building a flexible workforce.
Add Contingent Workers When Needed
Having a flexible workforce lets you scale your staffing levels according to need. You can bring in contingent workers when the workload increases, then let these workers move to other assignments when the workload returns to normal.
The ability to scale your workforce up or down according to seasonal demands helps optimize operational efficiency without overstaffing. As a result, you can maintain productivity and cost-effectively meet customer demands.
Maintain Productivity Levels
Creating a flexible workforce ensures you have the correct number of employees and contingent workers to meet your changing business demands. You can augment your workforce during busy seasons to avoid bottlenecks or production delays. You also can reduce the number of contingent workers on your team when business demands lower to maintain efficiency.
Adding contingent workers to your team during busy seasons helps appropriately allocate resources to optimize productivity. Fast adaptation to fit your changing business needs helps deliver your products promptly.
Pay for Only the Services Used
A flexible workforce lets you add contingent workers to your team when needed. This flexibility costs significantly less than hiring, onboarding, and training employees, then letting them go and paying unemployment claims when the workload goes down.
Hiring contingent workers involves paying for only the hours worked. Because the staffing agency employs these workers, you are not responsible for health insurance, a retirement plan, paid time off, employment taxes, unemployment claims, or related expenses. Therefore, you can maintain a skilled workforce while saving money.
Get Help with Building a Flexible Workforce
Work with Connectology to help build a flexible workforce that adapts to the seasonal demands of your manufacturing team. Start the process today.