Staffing a Warehouse

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An overview of the problems involved in staffing a warehouse over the summer, followed by possible solutions. The author's solutions include, encouraging teamwork, offering incentives, empowering employees, improving employee motivation, multi-training employees, introducing training sessions over the summer and employing assistants. The conclusion includes various recommendations for short and long-term solutions.

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"The warehouse supervisor's problem relates to ensuring the warehouse is adequately staffed during the summer months. Contributing to this problem is the fact that his senior staff take vacations in the summer months and that all staff take a greater amount of sick leave in the summer months.

This has led to the supervisor having to deal with staff shortages on a daily and a weekly basis. The basic solution in the past was to hire replacements workers on an on-call basis during the summer months but this has proved ineffective, with high turnover the result. The final result for the supervisor is the stress of having to deal with staff shortage problems at short notice and also the frustration of having to hire new people constantly."

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