Benefits
Deliver significant gains for your performance and people
Why focus on shift patterns, shift work and shift workers?
The importance of shift patterns and shift work cannot be overstated.
They have a huge bearing on organisational performance and shift worker health and wellbeing.
optashift uses data science and collaboration to help you continuously optimise and improve.
Read on to learn about the benefits you could unlock with a unified approach to shift patterns, shift work and shift workers.
Our experience
Benefits of optashift's approach
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Measurable impact
optashift use advanced data analytics to benchmark and track the performance of shift work environments.
We’ll help you create a robust monitoring and reporting framework that supports decision making, responsiveness and continuous improvement.
Unlock huge benefits
The benefits of optimising shift patterns and shift work span both your performance and people.
Capacity & Costs
Maximise labour availability, increase efficiency, improve working conditions and create more opportunities for shift workers.
- Increase capacity from contracted hours and avoid underutilisation
- Reduce expensive overtime and agency use
- Maximise asset utilisation and minimise waste
- Reduce overworking and short notice requests for cover
- Create stable employment and reinvest in growth, pay and conditions
Productivity & Service
Accurately align labour demand and supply to increase productivity and support shift workforce strategy, planning and management.
- Manage demand volatility and deploy resource when it is most needed
- Ensure rapid response to specific scenarios
- Simplify processes, reduce errors and avoid gaps
- Provide more certainty and fairness around working hours
- Improve job satisfaction by creating healthy working conditions and a successful environment
Compliance & Governance
Ensure your shift patterns and shift work management processes remain compliant with external regulations, legislation and internal shift work policy.
- Identify compliance risk early and implement robust mitigation strategies and processes
- Stay ahead of changing legislation, best practice and ESG reporting requirements
- Reduce shift working fatigue risk and associated health and safety issues
- Increase transparency and continuously improve shift working conditions
- Help shift workers manage rotational shift work effects
Wellbeing & Engagement
Foster a shift work environment that supports shift worker health and encourages an engaged, empowered and productive shift workforce.
- Create shift work conditions that support healthy, happy and productive shift workers
- Collaborate with shift workers and Trade Unions on shift work optimisation
- Reduce absence, overworking and shift work fatigue risk
- Help shift workers support their own health and wellbeing
- Increase flexibility to support diverse shift worker work-life balance requirements
Recruitment & Retention
Deliver shift work conditions that are popular, support different life stages and lifestyles and help make you an employer of choice.
- Reduce churn linked to dissatisfaction with shift patterns and shift work management
- Broaden your labour pool with flexible shift patterns suited to broad demographics
- Reduce recruitment costs and differentiate your organisation in tight labour markets
- Provide shift workers with more stability, certainty and choice around working time
- Create shift patterns that help older workers transition to retirement without skills loss
Flexibility & Resilience
Support your wider organisational strategy by creating a responsive resourcing model that quickly adapts to change.
- Increase strategic options by enhancing workforce flexibility
- Improve decision making with more visibility and control over shift patterns and shift work
- Create scenario plans which enable rapid response to changing situations
- Provide shift workers with more options and flexibility around working time and work-life balance
- Create stable employment conditions that provide certainty and protect valuable skills
Benefits of working with optashift
It’s never easy changing shift patterns or improving shift work.
optashift are established experts in this field who will partner with you across all aspects of shift pattern design, shift work management and shift worker support.
Over 30 years’ specialist experience and track record of success in shift work
Insight from working in diverse industries, organisations and scenarios
Proven approach that delivers maximum benefits for your performance and people
A flexible suite of shift work services that can be tailored to your needs and timeframes
Focus on data, collaboration, best practice and continuous optimisation and improvement
Form lasting partnerships that align the interests of all stakeholders
Shift Pattern, Shift Work and Shift Worker services
optashift services help you attain optimum shift work performance.
They can be delivered individually or combined to create a unified programme of continuous improvement.
Our agile approach means everything we do is tailored to your organisation and shift workers.
Shift work is complex, sensitive and always changing.
Let optashift be your trusted partner.
optashift industries
Find out more about our experience and the benefits of optimising shift patterns and shift work in different industries.
A purpose-led company
We want to help tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our economy and society.
We passionately believe optimising shift work has a key role to play in…
- Improving economic productivity
- Supporting workforce wellbeing
- Reducing unnecessary waste
- Creating high quality jobs of the future
- Securing labour supply in key industries
- Managing volatility and strategic change
Contact our shift work experts
Get in touch if you’d like to discuss improving shift patterns, shift work and shift worker support