Get Ready for Long Holiday Season Hours!
Are your employees whistling while they work — or groaning in dissatisfaction? If the holiday season means longer hours, more overtime, or extra night and weekend shifts, it’s time to focus on ways to increase morale. Staff productivity and supply chain efficiency depend on it.
Warehouse managers need to be aware that increased workloads over the holidays can exacerbate the potential of warehouse labor to experience a loss of morale:
- Long hours make workers feel like the business profits at the expense of their well-being
- Physical exhaustion and short sleep lead to productivity loss, irritability, and general unhappiness
- The potential of flare-ups increases between managers and employees, and among employees
- Busy seasons may prevent managers from finding the time to show appreciation for workers
All of these problems can exist year round, but the holiday season holds its particular challenges. Nobody wants to feel overworked and under-appreciated during this time of year!
Build Morale to Plow Through the Holidays
The flip side, fortunately, is that you can build morale to make the holiday workload feel like a team effort and a team victory.
Invest in snacks and refreshments and ensure that everybody gets an appropriate amount of break time. It’s really true that workers can get more done over the course of a shift with short breaks sprinkled in.
You can also ease the physical burden of strenuous tasks with advanced material handling equipment. Our self-propelled warehouse tugs relieve the back-breaking work of pushing and pulling supply or inventory carts.
To keep your employees happy and working hard, contact us at DJProducts.com to discuss warehouse tugs and industrial cart movers.