For Immediate Release - December 13, 2007
With more companies forced to work weekends to improve capital utilization and reduce fixed costs per unit, employee morale is tanking across the country. Cancer as a health risk on night shift isn't making it any easier. Most firms have taken their widely accepted 8-hour, Monday – Friday schedules and adapted them to weekend work. In doing so, employees are often working seven shifts in a row, getting single days off, and working 75% of their weekends.
To counteract this trend, Core Practice Partners is working directly with employees and management teams to create better solutions. A recent implementation at a Fortune 500 companies manufacturing operations yielded schedules that gave the employees an extra 13 weeks off a year, half their weekends off (doubled from 25%), and they never worked more than 4 shifts in a row. The employee morale has gone through the roof. Three months after implementation 82% of the workforce said they are either satisfied or strongly satisfied with the new schedule compared to 27% before implementation.
How are these types of results possible? The Core Practice Partners methodology includes working directly with management and employees. First, business requirements are understood and a variety of strategies are formulated to maximize results. Next, employees are asked approximately 75 questions about their likes and dislikes to narrow the field of options. "By using real business data along with accurate employee feedback we can create schedules that truly serve both parts of the organization," stated Ethan Franklin, Senior Partner with the firm.
The extensive employee survey benchmarks enhance the experience by normalizing employee feedback and comparing it to similar industries and demographics. We can identify data points outside of normal ranges and head off employee morale issues before they happen and turnaround issues that are happening now.
About Core Practice Partners: Core Practice Partners, based in Chicago IL with offices in New York, South Carolina, and California, is the leading consulting firm internationally in Labor Management for companies that don’t work traditional “9 to 5” schedules - in other words, shift workers. Methodology includes analyzing low cost shift work scheduling options, improving employee morale, and using labor strategies to minimize costs in seasonal work environments. For more information contact Susan Satterfield at 212-534-0539 or 866-663-7056.
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JOhn, This looks great! It seems to be coming along nicely. One more suggestion, when it comes to operating a corporate blog to track events, press releases, whitepapers, it is a good idea to float around the space (the industry but not direct competitors) and read what's going on within other firms blogs...read them, COMMENT on them. this will drive the traffic back to your respective blogs and get your visibility up, especially if people comment on your srticels/events/press releases. the more often content is updated the more often the search engines are going to have to crawl it, the higher you go! keep up the good work.
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