Core Practice Partners Pioneers Shift Work Morale and Workforce Schedules

On December 4, 2008 Core Practice Partners announced the release of the new CPP Scheduling Database that includes both the top rated workforce schedules in the country, and responses to various employee morale issues.

Senior Partner John Frehse said, "The most recent results will allow our clients to avoid the frequent mistakes made when trying to improve OEE and productivity using labor schedules. Our clients can now accurately predict the success of their initiatives as well as formulate more powerful strategies that directly hit the bottom line."

Ethan Franklin of Core Practice Partners discussed the approach, "Our clients are often quick to talk about spending more money on new capital. We stress the need to review current asset utilization and performance before we can make any recommendations. In many cases we can delay expenditures by improving the current operation. This may include reducing idle time, identifying adverse costs, improving start ups and shut downs, and better matching the workforce to the changing needs of the customer. Flexibility and predictability are often opposing forces in the world of shift work. We have ways of succeeding in both categories at the same time."

The new database is available starting December 6, 2008 and all advisory and change management services will be updated with this new information. The Core Practice Executive Workshops will also contain this new data.

About Core Practice Partners: Core Practice Partners, based in Chicago IL with offices in New York, South Carolina, and California is the leading consulting firm internationally in Labor Management for companies that don’t work traditional “9 to 5” schedules - in other words, shift workers. Methodology includes analyzing low cost shift work scheduling options, improving employee morale, and using labor strategies to minimize costs in seasonal work environments. For more information contact Susan Satterfield at 212-534-0539 or 1-866-663-7056.