More Flexibility = Increased Productivity
It’s an equation that doesn’t seem to add up, at first glance. But the reasoning is simple: workers who break out of the set-schedule routine – a system that allows faceless management to dictate hours without employee input – are happier and more productive.
Online scheduling systems help. They empower workers to swap shifts and take a proactive role in managing their own hours – and ensuring office coverage as a whole at the same time. Employers benefit because of a reduced workload on management and the ability to see at-a-glance charts, data, and calendars that make sense of employees and their work schedules, instantly.
Flexibility often fails unless it’s implemented company-wide, as is the case with online scheduling solutions like SubItUp.com. David Lewis, chief executive of Operations Inc. notes, "It's the 'have and have-not' syndrome. Businesses try to implement it so that the right positions have flexible schedules, but other employees can view that as distrust that they can work outside of the home as well." Scheduling systems give all employees the ability to swap shifts and request vacations online or even their smart phones, providing a layer of flexibility to all which removes David’s observed stigma from the office place.
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Flexibility has been proven time and time again to be an incredible source of increased productivity while increasing the quality – and length – of workers’ lives. But all the data in the world fails unless somebody takes the first step. That’s where we come in.
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