By Rob Balfour, VP Enterprise Sales, AllWork To leverage any flexible workforce effectively, you first need to ensure that that the right employee, with the appropriate skill sets, are doing the right jobs. this will provide an optimal balance between
5 Ways Technology Can Help you Increase Sales at Retail
Overseeing a team of remote retail workers certainly comes with its challenges. It’s hard to know exactly where your budget is having the most impact or which of your employees are performing the best if you’re using slow, outdated management
Creating Your Own On-Demand Workforce – A New Era of Work
By Rob Balfour, VP Enterprise Sales, AllWork As a society, we embrace instant gratification. We crave getting something the moment we realize we want it. I won’t speak for everyone, but the majority of us know this is true. Let’s
The Future of Retail: Trends for 2019
The retail industry is one that has changed dramatically over the past few years. Amidst all of the retail apocalypse chatter, an entire industry has slowly been reinventing itself in order to survive. Not only has it survived, but smart retailers
The Future of Staffing: Cloud-Based Platforms Make On-Demand Possible
Many companies today are using multiple solutions for their staffing needs that aren’t integrated with each other. From paper schedules to excel spreadsheets, some are still relying on out-dated forms of management for their staffing solutions. This lack of technology
Retail Requires a New Approach to Managing Talent
The retail world is shifting under brands’ feet. Retail has dependably been an industry driven by change — changes in fashion trends and the changing of the seasons, changes in the market and changes in technology. Today, those rhythms are
How to Create Loyal Retail Employees
Retaining your top employees is always important and now more than ever in an ever-changed retail environment. If someone is your top seller, the last thing you want is to have them pack up and head to another store and,
The Contingent Workforce Will Increase by 179% in Ten Years
According to the 2018 Future Workforce HR Report released this month by Upwork, we’re in for some fast and furious growth among the contingent workforce. More than 1,000 U.S. hiring managers, including over 200 HR managers were surveyed and 91% report that
The Workforce of the Future Is Agile
The nature of business has evolved, so the nature of staffing must evolve with it. It’s 2018. The digital age is here, and with it comes an incomparable rate of change. Companies can’t plan ahead using five-year strategies anymore. Even planning a year
5 Reasons Why 2018 is the Year That On-Demand Staffing Goes Mainstream.
On-demand staffing, the idea that companies can engage their staff only when they need them and where they need them, is poised for a breakout year in 2018. Pioneered by Uber, refined by many technology-enabled staffing platforms, who provide on-demand