Case Study: Hotel Workforce Management
A small 45-room ski resort hotel owner, facing competition from a large budget chain, gained a competitive edge by adopting WorkforceHub's TimeSimplicity scheduling and TimeWorksPlus attendance tools to reduce labor costs, streamline scheduling, accommodate employee preferences, and improve workforce management efficiency, enabling her to attract better staff and avoid hiring additional managers despite business growth.
Today's case study explains how the owner of a small hotel achieved a competitive edge by adopting WorkforceHub.
Background
The example company is a 45-room hotel located on the slopes of a small ski resort. For twenty-five years, this facility and two similar-sized lodges had furnished the only lodging at the small resort. There was enough business for all three (even with very little advertising) until a nationwide budget chain opened a 150-room facility five years ago. The three original hotels saw business dry up and the other two eventually went out of business.
A Radical Change to Stay Competitive
The owner knew she had to change her tactics to remain afloat. In an attempt to entice a higher-paying clientele, she took out a large loan and invested in a total remodel, modern amenities, and an expensive advertising campaign aimed at out-of-state guests. Along with the makeover and major pivot, the owner knew she had to get serious about tracking and controlling expenses. The traditional workforce management (WFM) processes had to go.
Her goal was to limit labor costs, decrease admin time, reduce scheduling confusion, and track vital data so she could create strategies to expand human capital ROI. She also wanted to create an efficient, flexible, tech-savvy atmosphere to entice the best labor force from the limited labor pool in the rural location.
Solution – WorkforceHub
The scheduling tool, TimeSimplicity, was up and running on day one of the implementation. When the owner learned how effortless it was to quickly develop custom schedules for hotel staffing, she realized that she wouldn’t have to hire another manager if business increased. She also saw how her managers could better accommodate the employees’ shift preferences—which is key to keeping hard core “ski bums” loyal and happy.
Every Minute Counts
TimeWorksPlus, the time and attendance tool, tracks employee time to the minute. It only took two pay cycles for the owner to learn how much she had been overpaying unnecessarily due to inaccurate time cards. Though most of the mistakes had been inadvertent, she discovered that there had been some intentional buddy-punching going on. She chose to pick up a compatible biometric time clock and it’s proved its value every pay period.
No More Unauthorized Overtime
Overtime is easily managed with customizable system warnings and there are nine pay-rate fields and employee groups/sorting/filtering for easy organization and updating. This makes it easy to schedule workers who have narrow skill sets as well as the cross-trained employees who can work in any department.
Empowered Employees
Employee Self Service allows employees to clock in, check their schedule, submit shift change requests, submit time cards, and monitor accruals online. The convenience and autonomy has boosted morale, improved communication, and increased efficiency. Her loyal staff appreciates the new 21st century workplace tools and she is now known as the best employer on the mountain.
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WorkforceHub includes TimeWorksPlus, TimeSimplicity, and TimeWorks Mobile. WorkforceHub is designed for busy employers like you who need to streamline scheduling, automate time and attendance tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and lessen labor costs.
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