Change is a constant. But in recent years, it seems we’ve entered a period of rapid acceleration: the speed at which changes are taking place is unprecedented. Global warming, shifting geopolitical forces, economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic or war in our own backyard, growing competition, digitalization, …
The labor market is also feeling the strain, with a perfect storm of labor shortages and skill mismatches. The result: unfilled job openings (in April 2022, 30,627 new job openings were reported to the VDAB ), a long list of shortage occupations, a growing number of employees absent due to illness or burnout, a large group of economically inactive people, and insufficient investment and participation to keep knowledge and skills future-proof.
In addition, there are undoubtedly other trends that specifically impact your business environment and operations.
More than ever, adapting to change is the foundation for future success. How do you address this when it comes to the human element in your company? Strategic workforce planning offers a solution.
Strategic workforce planning brings the human factor and your business strategy together. You establish a link between your strategy and the desired composition of your workforce in your future organization, department, or team. You gain insight into the people you currently have and what the optimal future staffing level will be to achieve your objectives. Of course, this planning involves FTEs, but it also considers whether competencies are future-proof. This helps identify mismatches and bottlenecks, allowing you to take timely action in both your HR policy and workforce planning.
Strategic workforce planning makes your company or organization agile and performance-oriented, and ensures that you can respond more intelligently and effectively.
Strategic workforce planning, as a tool, helps you steer toward the workforce you'll need in the future.
If your long-term approach is clear thanks to your strategic workforce planning, your next step is to conduct an exercise to assess the available and required workforce capacity for the coming year. This plan will help you identify staffing shortages (or surpluses). You’ll be able to visualize the busy periods and the less busy ones. With this insight into capacity, you can make informed and timely preparations for workloads and staffing needs by adjusting your work organization and staffing levels. Consider, for example, hiring, leave and work arrangements, as well as organizing your flexible workforce or employees who can be deployed flexibly.
Flexible employees are the best way to fill staffing gaps during peak periods and ensure your operational planning runs smoothly. You can hire these temporary extra hands through various contract types:
From strategic workforce planning to your operational planning, workforce planning takes up a lot of your time and energy. Have you ever considered outsourcing the HR administration for your temporary staffing needs?
Update-pro is a payroll agency for temporary employees, and we’re here to help with both legal and administrative matters.
We properly, flexibly, and easily register your pool of students, flexi-jobbers, as well as office workers and laborers under temporary employment contracts. We can legally offer this flexibility because we are a licensed temporary employment agency*. Your temporary employees receive a daily, weekly, or monthly contract. Need to extend their employment? No problem. Need to shorten the employment contract? Check!
When it comes to administrative tasks, you can rest easy when you work with Update-pro. Using our scheduling tool, you can register your new temporary employees with just a few clicks, schedule your flexible workers, and make (last-minute) adjustments to those schedules as needed. Your employees immediately receive the correct contract and are fully compliant with all regulations (Dimona, employment regulations, workers’ compensation insurance, etc.). Update-pro takes care of it all for you. This way, you avoid mistakes that would otherwise take a lot of time to correct.
Simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency
After reading this article, you might think that we’re a payroll partner that takes care of the legal and administrative aspects of managing your flexible employees. That’s absolutely correct. But we can offer you even more. Our cost-effective pricing structure and secure database are also major advantages. Want to discover even more benefits of working with Update-pro? Read about them here.
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*Unlike traditional staffing agencies, we do not handle recruitment and selection; instead, we assist employers in ensuring that their temporary workers are employed in accordance with the law.
