{"id":10721,"date":"2020-12-21T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integritystaffing.com\/how-strong-is-your-staffing-strategy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T14:22:21","slug":"how-strong-is-your-staffing-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integritystaffing.com\/blog\/how-strong-is-your-staffing-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Strong Is Your Staffing Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we&#8217;ve learned during this incredible year, it&#8217;s that businesses must be prepared for any contingency. Staffing needs may skyrocket, or plummet, or do both successively within just a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought, as recently as this time last year, we&#8217;d see statistics like these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online sales were up 76% in June 2020 compared with June 2019<\/li>\n<li>Amazon&#8217;s traffic increased by 28.1% between February and July 2020<\/li>\n<li>Ecommerce penetration was 20.8% in Q2 2020, up from 14.7% in Q2 2019<\/li>\n<li>43.7% of top 500 retailers offered curbside pickup in August 2020, up from 6.9% in December 2019<\/li>\n<li>In a global survey, 63% of consumers said the way they obtain goods and services was &#8220;transformed&#8221; by the pandemic<\/li>\n<li>83% of consumers expect retailers to provide flexible shipping and fulfillment options<\/li>\n<li>Before COVID-19, 7% of U.S. employees worked from home; as of June 2020, 64% did<\/li>\n<li>67% of IT decision makers expect &#8220;expanded or universal work-from-home policies&#8221; to last long term or permanently<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although COVID-19 was, we sincerely hope, a once-in-a-lifetime event, some of the changes it caused are here to stay. And it&#8217;s not unlikely that the future will bring more shifts in economic trends, employment arrangements and buying habits.<\/p>\n<p>HR teams need a robust, sustainable plan for staffing in these rapidly changing circumstances. Some of the issues clients ask us about most often are discussed below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surge in Demand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Online retailers experienced such extreme increases in orders that they couldn&#8217;t add staff fast enough for timely fulfillment. Brick-and-mortar stores had to man curbside pickup stations and contactless delivery systems. In-house HR departments were overwhelmed. However, few businesses see increasing permanent staff to cope with one short-term situation as a good solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technological Capability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many new practices for contactless sourcing, interviewing, hiring and onboarding of employees were introduced to mitigate the risks of COVID-19. Having proved to also deliver time and cost efficiencies, these procedures will probably be kept in place after the pandemic. Yet, many businesses don&#8217;t have the budget to buy in specialized systems \u2014 nor the personnel to implement and guard the security \u2014 for remote interviewing, virtual reality office tours and comprehensive applicant tracking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employee Productivity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of the factors that contribute to productivity were stressed by COVID-19. Shortcuts taken in candidate assessment and new hire training for the sake of speed, had impacts downstream ranging from burnout, low morale and high attrition rates to costly mistakes and <a href=\"\/employee-health-safety-program\/\">safety<\/a> incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Talent Gap Reanalysis<\/p>\n<p>The staffing plans businesses made just last year were based on &#8220;normal&#8221; expectations: anticipated volume and timing of incoming projects, skills needed to complete those projects, market competition and economic trends. But nobody could have predicted 2020; and few even imagined that the plan should include a disaster response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A New Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one simple reason why businesses are coming to us with the concerns discussed above: they&#8217;re thinking that an outsourced staffing provider is the answer to all these problems. As a leader in the staffing industry, we give clients cost-effective access to high volume hiring capabilities, best-in-class technology and a deep commitment to promoting the success of the associates we send them.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about our staffing solutions, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/integritystaffing.com\/\">our website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sales@integritystaffing.com\">email us<\/a>\u00a0or call 1.888.446.1300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we&#8217;ve learned during this incredible year, it&#8217;s that businesses must be prepared for any contingency. Staffing needs may skyrocket, or plummet, or do both successively within just a few months. 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