From Firefighter to Strategist: How Staffing Can Reclaim HR Bandwidth
HR leaders today are under pressure from all sides. They're navigating high turnover, rapid onboarding needs, compliance requirements, and growing expectations around culture and retention. It's no wonder burnout rates in HR are rising. But what if the answer isn’t more headcount in HR — it’s less administrative clutter? Staffing support isn’t just about filling roles. It’s about freeing up internal teams to do the work that matters most. Here's how smart staffing helps transform HR from reactive firefighter to forward-focused strategist. 1. Unburdening HR From Day-One Tasks Every new hire brings an avalanche of tasks: job postings, screening, interviews,
What You Need to Do for a Successful Career Transition into Manufacturing
Transitioning careers can be challenging, especially in a dynamic industry like manufacturing. Whether you’re moving within the field or pivoting to a new industry, adequate preparation is key to a smooth and successful transition. This blog outlines essential steps and strategies to confidently navigate your next career move. Take Stock of Your Complementary Skills and Experience Reflect on your skills, experiences, and accomplishments before making a transition. Identify which of these can be transferred to your new role or industry. Consider the following questions: What are my strengths? How have I developed skills that are transferable to other roles? Research
Designing and Optimizing a High-Performing Warehouse
Warehouses are big business. Across the globe, companies spend over $350 billion a year on their warehouse operations. Keeping warehouses efficient and streamlined helps companies keep their costs down and margins high. Warehouses today, though, face more challenges than ever in keeping performance and profits high. First, warehouses, like many other industries, face a shortage of talent. Competing for the available talent often means higher talent acquisition, training, and compensation costs. Second, the shifting demands from customers have forced warehouses to innovate and speed up their process. Ever since Amazon revolutionized shipping times, warehouses everywhere have had to implement new
5 Strategies to Increase Warehouse Worker Retention
Warehousing is an expanding industry in the US, growing at an annual rate of 2.7% from 2018 to 2022. With a market size of 35.4 billion dollars in 2023, the warehouse industry has grown to accommodate shifting consumer preferences towards e-commerce and the expanding global supply chain. While the demand from consumers and businesses for efficient warehouses has not slowed, the industry is hindered by a limited workforce. Coupling a high turnover rate with a nationwide labor shortage, warehouses spend a disproportionate amount of their resources on recruiting new talent. According to McKinsey, each frontline employee departure can cost your
Are You Focusing on the Wrong Skills When Hiring Operators?
As Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are changing every aspect of manufacturing companies and the way they are run, the types of workers needed to build a successful organization are also changing. Over the last few years, manufacturing as an industry has embraced data and connectivity, analytics, human-machine interaction, and improvements in robotics. Companies are seeking out these new technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency. According to a Deloitte study, 86% of manufacturing executives surveyed believe that smart factory solutions will be the primary drivers of competitiveness in the next five years. Manufacturing companies need to innovate their processes, technologies,
How to Leverage Q1 Production Numbers for Q2 Workforce Planning
Talent is the fuel that powers your company’s financial success and growth goals. When you incorporate workforce planning into your organization’s growth toolkit, you can create a workforce strategy that better insulates your company from many pressures and challenges that come with staffing in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. An adaptable, agile, and thoughtfully allocated workforce is a crucial asset that drives growth. Unfortunately, many organizations have not yet tapped into the potential of workforce planning. Most professionals still think reactively, rather than proactively, when it comes to staffing. With organizations collecting more data than ever before, forecasting based on