Food Magazine September 2015 | Page 8

FRANCHISING
68 percent of employers reported that the most difficult part of scheduling is building a framework that takes into account the individual availability of workers .
misalignment with employers and employees ,” says Josh Ostrega , COO and co-founder of WorkJam . Named 2015 Retail Start-up of the Year at STORE 2015 , the new application that aims to provide a solution that will benefit both sides of the equation .
According to research from WorkJam , only 29 percent of hourly workers regularly receive a consistent schedule . On the other end , 68 percent of employers reported that the most difficult part of scheduling is building a framework that takes into account the individual availability of workers . What ends up happening is that managers in charge of shift scheduling end up with schedules that fail to take individual availability into account .
8 September 2015