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A Guide to Keeping Your Associates Safe on the Job [Guide]
At Staff Management | SMX, safety is a part of our daily operations and we work with each client to ensure their safety program is tailored to their operation.
Hire Up – A Staff Management | SMX Solution
As the leading experts in onsite management, Staff Management | SMX now offers our HireUp program.
How Centralized Staffing Can Reduce Your Risk
A centralized services team works around the clock to support your staffing program. These centralized services teams allow your onsite teams to manage you workforce and provide optimal service level
Flexible Work Arrangements: Strategies for Retention
Flexible work arrangements, like alternative scheduling, have long been popular options, but they carry challenges too. Here are our tips for efficiently implementing flexible solutions.
Flexible Job-Sharing Programs Reduce Overtime & Turnover Costs
Simple scheduling has its appeal, but is it holding your operation back? Our FLEX scheduling uses a flexible job-sharing framework to help you reduce turnover and burnout while increasing fill rates.
Distribution Centers, Recruiting & Retention: 3 Tips for Keeping Quality Workers
With lower unemployment rates and greater technological sophistication in distribution centers, it can be a challenge to find and retain quality talent. Here are three tips to help you
Burnout Prevention Starts With Overtime Reduction
When you think about the costs of overtime, you probably think about up-front payroll expenses. But do you think about the long-term costs too?
The Shrinking Manufacturing Skills Gap: Is it Real?
While there’s evidence that the manufacturing skills gap may be shrinking, it’s still causing headaches for many companies that operate in remote areas or tough labor markets.
Pre-Employment Screening: Are You Compliant?
New laws at the state and local level have impacted standard pre-employment screening processes in a big way. From time to time, you'll have to update your policies.
The 5-Step Lean Assessment Process for Industrial Staffing ROI
We use a five-step assessment plan to develop a continuous improvement path based on lean principles for your industrial staffing program.
The 4 Elements of a Successful Job Training Program for Contingent Workers
A successful job training program benefits both businesses and workers. How can your program set contingent workers on a path to success?
5 Best Practices to Balance Your Manufacturing Procurement Strategy
While securing talent and technology at the lowest price are key, a winning manufacturing procurement strategy should be balanced between value and cost.
Staffing Considerations for Pop-Up Fulfillment Centers
Pop-up fulfillment centers are temporary operations that enable retailers to distribute orders across multiple facilities and move inventory closer to consumers during hectic peak seasons.
Outsmart, Outstrip, Outsource: Solve Distribution and Fulfillment Recruiting Challenges
The geographic concentration of ecommerce warehouses leads to hiring difficulties, but you can solve three key distribution and fulfillment recruiting challenges
Recruit warehouse workers like a pro
The pandemic and high competition from other workplaces are two factors that make it pretty challenging to recruit warehouse workers. Follow these tips to recruit new warehouse workers like a pro.