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Do vacations and unscheduled leave create headaches for production, operations, sales or customer service? Do employees complain when they cannot take vacation at their preferred time? Does low workforce productivity drive your need for more employees than necessary? Workforce planning can optimize scheduled leave, help you adapt to unscheduled leave, and enable you to use creative staffing strategies to reduce overhead and improve the bottom-line. Drake can show you how it’s done.

Managing workforce levels is not a simple matter. Companies have to set schedules, plan for vacations and react to unscheduled leave (sick days or absenteeism). Layer on top of this, the fact that many people aren’t highly productive, which drives the demand for more employees. Drake has the know-how and analytical tools so that companies can plan for absences, not just react to them, and optimize work levels.

An on-line enterprise survey is an easy way to get quantitative data on employee attitudes that drive performance, indicating where you are strong and which factors are holding the company back. Using a third party provider (rather than doing the survey in-house) gives you better response rates, more candid answers and objective analysis of the results.

Drake offers:

Analysis of fluctuations in workload and needed workforce levels
Analysis of historical trends in scheduled and unscheduled leave
Recommended policies for scheduling vacations
Systems for tracking and managing leave
Analysis of absenteeism and interventions to reduce it.
Flexible staffing strategies

What is the End Result?

You get:

Optimal staff levels
Operations that are not disrupted by unexpected staff shortages
Reduced overheads and improved profits.

How is it Done?

Drake Consultants meet with you to understand the areas of most concern, and then dive into a study of the data to identify trends. Having analyzed the situation in your organization Drake will make specific recommendations about policies, training, technologies, and staffing strategies that you can leverage for an effective workforce planning system.

What is the Payoff?

Workforce planning leads to reduced overtime costs and optimized head counts. It leads to fewer disruptions to production and customer service, and improves morale by establishing a clear and fair method for scheduling time off and distributing workloads.

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