How crucial is locations management? In this post, content strategist and industry researcher Anokh Rao explores the net gains that come from tracking locations more efficiently.
Workforce Productivity Articles
Agile Scheduling Trends: The Evolution of Time Studies
How do you ensure consistent labor standards? The answer: through an application that lets you control your time studies the way you want, and saves you countless amounts in operational costs.
Microlearning Benefits for the Restaurant Industry
Approximately fifteen million individuals are employed in food service establishments, and 10% of the U.S. workforce is employed in restaurants. The industry is booming, and it’s estimated that the average household spends nearly 50% of its food dollars in...
Ensuring Associate Safety During Time Studies
Crowd sourcing time studies can help you guarantee associate safety and drive consistent labor standards. Here’s how.
What's A Perfect Forecast?
It’s often assumed that the greater accuracy a forecast has, the better the result for a retailer. But how valuable is a “perfect” sales forecast?
Business forecast accuracy – Does it matter?
Retail store manager needs a forecast of her business to decide number of shifts she needs to staff. Most enterprise workforce scheduling softwares, as a pre-cursor to calculating labor needed in the store, provide a module to forecast sales ($sales, customers etc)....
Analyzing WFM Analytics
In Seven Habits, Stephen Covey told us to "look at the lens before looking through it". With all the advances in human capital management and related technologies, we are approaching the high noon on workforce management. It's time to trim away any deficiencies in our...