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High acceptance thanks to a targeted Job App for employees

Optimise your staff planning together with your employees, our Job App makes it possible. Read more here.

High employee acceptance thanks to our targeted Job App

You may know it: you have drawn up a staff schedule down to the last detail and you have considered which of your staff will be deployed when and where. But unfortunately, one of your staff members cancels the planned shift. No problem, because other employees immediately fill this gap by swapping shifts. Solved. But at higher staffing costs. Instead of the 'cheaper' colleague, someone with a much higher hourly wage is now scheduled to work. Something you had not calculated in advance. Our planning tool makes it possible to prevent these kinds of problems. Partly thanks to our handy Job App, which fully integrates with the workforces management tool. We tell you more about the high acceptance of our Job App and its many advantages.

Embracing the planning tool

Staff planning for organisations is very complicated. Especially for supermarkets, which work with fresh freight, it is crucial that sufficient employees are scheduled in order to guarantee the high service level. Thanks to R&R's planning tool, you get a better grip on these processes and on personnel planning itself. In addition, our Job App ensures that the employee himself is involved in this process. Given the shortage on the labour market, this is becoming increasingly important. Employees like to have a say and the opportunity to think along with the daily business.

Our Job App makes this possible. With already more than 117,000 active users, it is no secret that the acceptance among organisations and employees is very high. Employees and management enjoy using our Job App because of the many advantages it brings.

The importance of employee self-service

Employees want to feel involved in your organisation. Also when it comes to making a staff planning. Given the current shortage on the labour market, the influence of the employee on the organisation is seen as one of the major advantages to attract employees. The Job App allows an employee to influence the process of personnel planning. The employee can simply and easily specify his own availability via the Job App and school schedules are easily loaded. The app also allows employees to request leave or swap shifts without any complicated processes. The Job App is developed especially for you and your employees. The app contributes to the satisfaction, motivation and productivity of your employees because everything is centrally organised and managed. This way you avoid the hassle of different (complicated) channels. 

Exchanging shifts with the approval of the manager

Of course, as a manager you want to take the final decision when necessary. After all, the interests of the organisation are slightly different from those of your employees. Whereas swapping shifts is a simple click of a button for them, it can have major consequences for you as an organisation. As we mentioned earlier, you want to prevent a more expensive employee from taking over the shift of a cheaper one. As a manager, you always indicate via the Job App whether a shift in the personnel planning can and may be exchanged. This way you keep the overview and you stay in control.

But also the insight in the made hours and rosters is easily arranged via the Job App. Everything is collected and stored centrally so that you always have the workforces management tool easily at hand.

Communicate easily with your staff

Communication from and to employees is always a sensitive subject. Where you used to get away with a simple Whatsapp message, this is now complicated because of the AVG regulations. In addition, you lose the overview and you have no ownership of this system. The Job App solves this problem as well. As a manager, you can send messages to your staff through the app, without violating the AVG. Employees also receive important notifications when the schedule changes or changes are made to the staff planning.

Central planning via the Job App

As you can see, our Job App brings many advantages to both employee and management. Our workforces management tool ensures that your personnel planning is always set up in the most effective way. Would you like to read more about our Job App? You can do so here. Do you want to read more about our workforces management tool in practice? Check out our case for Scheepers Retail Groep here.

Organisations face challenges in creating an orderly and effective workforce planning. For supermarkets in particular, this is a considerable challenge. In order to have the right tasks performed at the right time by the right employee, it is necessary to collect sufficient insights. In our previous blog, we told you how to get a grip on your staff planning and staffing with the right planning tool. In this blog, we will tell you more about deploying the right staff at the right cost and how you can save on this.

Download the case of Scheepers Retail Groep here

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Stef van Dijk
About the author Stef van Dijk

Stef van Dijk has extensive experience in supermarkets and knows the food retail industry inside and out. Stef writes blogs on all relevant issues around workforce management and food retail.

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