Staffing a warehouse for bulk product fulfillment and distribution logistics requires the decision of whether to hire full-time or temporary staff. While both options have their benefits, there are clear advantages to hiring full-time staff that Elite Sourcing and Logistics has discovered over the past decade. Not only can full-time workers provide more consistency and stability to a warehouse, but they also tend to be more invested in their work, leading to increased productivity and reduced turnover rates. Let us share the benefits of hiring full-time staff in our own warehousing environment, to understand why this choice is important to you when selecting your warehousing and logistics partner.
Increased Knowledge and Expertise
Our full-time staff means that when you hire Elite Sourcing and Logistics, our people are dedicated to your needs. Since these people are full-time employees, they have a deeper understanding of our client’s businesses, products, systems, and processes. They receive continuous training and support, and they learn how to work efficiently and productively as a team. Our Elite full-time staff often offers additional insights, recommendations, and solutions as they become more familiar with your business. The insights that our full-time staff bring are invaluable to reducing problems, improving business processes, and ensuring the highest quality services in product fulfillment, warehousing, and logistics as experienced by every customer.
Consistency and Reliability
One of the major issues with hiring a temporary staff is that they are not always available on the days when you need them. This can lead to a lack of consistency in workplace operations, including disruptions to work quality, efficiency, and consistency. One reason we chose to employ our full-time staff is that they are always available and consistent. We know we can rely on them to show up when we need them, which allows us to create a stable and reliable work environment, with consistent assignments and responsibilities, and no need to continually train new workers. Ultimately, to you this means that our undivided attention is used to deliver premium services to every client every time.
Increased Productivity
A full-time employee is quite simply more invested in their work than a temporary worker. They understand that their performance will be evaluated long-term, and they have a vested interest in doing the best job they can. Our full-time team has a sense of ownership in their work and they are motivated to perform at a higher level, leading to increased productivity levels overall. Additionally, when workers know how to work efficiently and productively, we experience a reduction in errors, resulting in saving time and possible unnecessary costs. This means our product fulfillment, warehousing, and logistics services are reliable and cost effective. This is also how Elite can share inventory tracking rates that average 99.98%!
Reduced Turnover Rate
Overall, our full-time staff has a low turnover rate when compared to temporary workers. High staff turnover rates can be detrimental to the ability to operate smoothly and efficiently, requiring more time and money to continuously be spent recruiting and training new staff members. When staff turnover is high, there is less assurance that the working environment will be stable enough to continue normal warehouse operations. Retaining experienced and capable workers who are invested in operations can save time, effort, money, and headaches. Our Elite Sourcing and Logistics team has very little turn over with many of our workers listed as senior staff.
Lower Costs
While hiring full-time staff might mean higher labor costs initially, it usually translates to fewer required employees and lower overall costs. Full-time employees translate into money savings in repetitive training, evaluation, versus continuous recruiting for temporary workers. Full-time workers also offer greater potential for development and advancement as an organization scales and grows. Elite has an amazing crew of highly invested, long-term employees who have advanced over the years to more senior positions with an added benefit of training their own replacements to pass on critical industrial and organizational knowledge. Compared to temporary workers that may need new training, new evaluations, and new replacements in subsequent months, we have discovered our full-time team is more cost-effective and provides more advantages in the long run.
In conclusion, staffing warehousing and fulfillment operations is a critical process that should be based on long-term goals. While temporary staff may seem like a quick fix, our full-time staff has proven repeatedly that they offer improved efficiency, productivity, stability, and lower costs over time. Full-time workers are more invested in our operations and our clients, and understand the businesses that we serve. They offer stability and consistency to our Elite Sourcing and Logistics operations which means we are a strong and reliable partner for your product fulfillment, warehousing, and logistics needs. All in all, the benefits that our customers have reaped with our amazing team far outweighs any perceived advantages of a temporary staff. You can take advantage of having a dedicated staff of invested individuals on your team too. Contact us to discuss your next fulfillment and logistics project to let us show you how.