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The wife and I own a fulfillment business. I run the floor side and my wife runs the office side. We have 16 full time and 6 part time employees.
We have run into a road block as we grew faster than my kid could finish college. She is going to work full time as a supervisor.
Most of our products need some type of processing. Books need to be shrink wrapped. Cloth goods need folding and bagging. Stickers need to be counted and bagged.
We have the processing set up in the same room as the pick to light and shipping. The processing was designed to be done upstairs, but got set up down stairs so one supervisor could run it all. We're bringing in new machines and building out the processing room right now.
I have offered all my staff a bonus to work Sundays. Offered my part time employees full time jobs, but they have to work Sundays for a few months. I have not gotten many offers for Sunday and have been using temp workers, but the use of temp workers is causing tension with my staff.
How do you handle this?
We have tried to hire supervisors, but you're out of luck where I'm at unless you pay $25 an hour and even at $25 an hour they can barely handle hard questions.
We don't want to hire people to just work 1 day a week.
We have run into a road block as we grew faster than my kid could finish college. She is going to work full time as a supervisor.
Most of our products need some type of processing. Books need to be shrink wrapped. Cloth goods need folding and bagging. Stickers need to be counted and bagged.
We have the processing set up in the same room as the pick to light and shipping. The processing was designed to be done upstairs, but got set up down stairs so one supervisor could run it all. We're bringing in new machines and building out the processing room right now.
I have offered all my staff a bonus to work Sundays. Offered my part time employees full time jobs, but they have to work Sundays for a few months. I have not gotten many offers for Sunday and have been using temp workers, but the use of temp workers is causing tension with my staff.
How do you handle this?
We have tried to hire supervisors, but you're out of luck where I'm at unless you pay $25 an hour and even at $25 an hour they can barely handle hard questions.
We don't want to hire people to just work 1 day a week.