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A Simple Mantra for Increasing Employee Productivity Stop me if you have heard this one before: there is a significant labor shortage, especially in retail and hospitality. If you are reading this, you know that already. And you have read article after article...

When organizations must accommodate increased customer demand, they have traditionally had two options for doing so: grow their workforce or increase the productivity of existing workers. Unfortunately, the labor shortages we are seeing across retail, dining, and...

For most people, labor productivity or workforce productivity is a confusing catch-all phrase that describes economic output. It is intended to offer a window into the performance of the labor force, and is sometimes used interchangeably with things like the employment rate, national economic growth, and annual gross domestic product.

We are more than a year on from the first wave of Covid-related shutdowns and the global economy is surging ahead. Retail is back with a vengeance and the hospitality industry’s recovery is gaining momentum by the day. This boom has left large employers facing a...

Workforce management (WFM) is, at its core, a mechanism for optimizing employee productivity. A well-configured workforce management system will also reduce labor costs and improve both operational efficiency and employee performance while improving customer...

This blog post was written by Bob Clements, President of Axsium Group, and was originally published by the independent think-tank, The Workforce Institute (https://workforceinstitute.org/3-ways-to-fix-your-labor-shortage/) Here are three ways to fix your...