Difficulties of Manufacturing, Factory, and Production Employee Scheduling Managing employee scheduling in manufacturing facilities encompasses many aspects and obstacles. Perhaps you have employees working in raw materials, inventory management, production, [...]
There are many scheduling programs on the market today. They all do about the same thing. A basic scheduling program allows the manager to define work assignments (aka “slots”) and [...]
Running a security company, or any business, involves a multitude of tasks for the office staff. You are most likely the only office staff in the first two years after [...]
Security officer work schedules are a difficult task at best. Employees have got to be dispatched to multiple sites with multiple contract requirements. Security patrols within sites make it even [...]
There’s nothing worse than slaving over a shift schedule for hours and being told there’s a mistake right after you post it. Sometimes the reasons are obvious: Mistakes in totaling [...]
You say you dread two tasks each week: putting together the security guard’s schedule and totaling up the hours for payroll. Both tasks take you hours and there is always [...]
Landing a big contract at a large site is every security salesperson’s dream. Contracts known as 108’s (1 guard, 2 shifts, 7 days a week), 168’s (1 guard, 3 shifts, [...]
It would be safe to say that pencil and paper scheduling is about as dead as the old Dodo bird, or would it? Supervisors at small sites still do security [...]
The security industry has long fought one major problem in their business operations. That’s the problem of high employee turnover. The average rate is about 50% per year. Many companies [...]
Most contract security positions do not involve a lot of physical work. The bulk of the job is simply to observe and report. Having said this, there are a number [...]