The Key to Success at Retail: Your Sales Team
Brick-And-Mortar stores aren’t going away. No matter how much you may read about the impending doom of the retail environment, the truth is that 80% of purchases are still made in a store. That’s huge! While overall, online sales as a portion of retail sales have grown year over year, it still only accounts for […]
Managing Supply And Demand For The Flexible Workforce
By Rob Balfour, VP Enterprise Sales, AllWork To leverage any flexible workforce effectively, you first need to ensure that that the right employee, with the appropriate skill sets, are doing the right jobs. this will provide an optimal balance between labor supply and labor demand, which will yield optimal ROI. If your workforce management process […]
5 Ways Technology Can Help you Increase Sales at Retail
Overseeing a team of remote retail workers certainly comes with its challenges. It’s hard to know exactly where your budget is having the most impact or which of your employees are performing the best if you’re using slow, outdated management methods. Increasing sales of your brand at retail is always top-of-mind, but how exactly do […]
Creating Your Own On-Demand Workforce – A New Era of Work
By Rob Balfour, VP Enterprise Sales, AllWork As a society, we embrace instant gratification. We crave getting something the moment we realize we want it. I won’t speak for everyone, but the majority of us know this is true. Let’s discuss instant gratification as it relates to jobs and the trend of an increasing number […]
The Future of Retail: Trends for 2019
The retail industry is one that has changed dramatically over the past few years. Amidst all of the retail apocalypse chatter, an entire industry has slowly been reinventing itself in order to survive. Not only has it survived, but smart retailers are thriving by creating in-store shopping experiences and completely revamping the way their customers interact […]
The Future of Staffing: Cloud-Based Platforms Make On-Demand Possible
Many companies today are using multiple solutions for their staffing needs that aren’t integrated with each other. From paper schedules to excel spreadsheets, some are still relying on out-dated forms of management for their staffing solutions. This lack of technology prevents any kind of true on-demand staffing from happening. If managers need to use one […]
Retail Requires a New Approach to Managing Talent
The retail world is shifting under brands’ feet. Retail has dependably been an industry driven by change — changes in fashion trends and the changing of the seasons, changes in the market and changes in technology. Today, those rhythms are accelerating or disappearing. Previously reliable sales channels like department stores are no longer dependable. Just […]
How to Create Loyal Retail Employees
Retaining your top employees is always important and now more than ever in an ever-changed retail environment. If someone is your top seller, the last thing you want is to have them pack up and head to another store and, even worse, a potential competitor. Your employees are truly the face of your brand and […]
The Contingent Workforce Will Increase by 179% in Ten Years
According to the 2018 Future Workforce HR Report released this month by Upwork, we’re in for some fast and furious growth among the contingent workforce. More than 1,000 U.S. hiring managers, including over 200 HR managers were surveyed and 91% report that in order to combat skills and worker shortages, they have begun adopting more agile talent strategies. […]
The Workforce of the Future Is Agile
The nature of business has evolved, so the nature of staffing must evolve with it. It’s 2018. The digital age is here, and with it comes an incomparable rate of change. Companies can’t plan ahead using five-year strategies anymore. Even planning a year in advance can be risky. Any modern company at all susceptible to fluctuating business must […]
