Material Handling Information - High Employee Turnover
Labor
High Employee Turnover
When workers do not control their own workflow, work
often piles up, leaving workers less satisfied and more
likely to change jobs.
Workers at Von duprin
control their own workflow from a mini
load automated buffer, improving their productivity and
job satisfaction.
Problem
Low unemployment rates.
Employers must compete to retain the best workers.
Salaries and benefits must be on par or above competitive operations.
Less long-term worker loyalty to a single employer.
Workers are less willing to work overtime.
Difficult to attract/retain workers to perform labor intensive, non-value-adding tasks.
People leave because they are bored and frustrated, and
do not feel they are doing meaningful work.
High employee turnover makes it difficult for companies to meet the demands of their operations, resulting in problems such as:
High recruitment costs
High training costs
Inability to meet commitments
Limited business growth.
Solution
Do not just automate a flawed process; it will simply
result in a faster, more consistently bad outcome, and a
corresponding loss of agility and ability to accommodate
unforeseen change.
Involve the workers who understand the process in which they work to evolve a new process that they control.
Allowing workers to control their own output has consistently shown significant increases in capacity, quality, and customer responsiveness, as well as a significant reduction in turnover.
Minimize dirty, dangerous, difficult tasks such as heavy lifting through ergonomic planning and process redesign.
