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Unmatched shift pattern and shift work experience
Transforming shift patterns and shift work across industries
Over four decades optashift experts have helped hundreds of organisations create shift patterns, manage shift work and support shift worker health.
We know how complex, dynamic and unique shift work environments are.
Our experts will help you optimise every aspect of shift work to unlock wide ranging benefits for your performance and people.
optashift industries
Find out more about our experience and the benefits of optimising shift patterns and shift work in different industries.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers seeking optimum productivity, efficiency and capacity need flexible demand-led resourcing.
optashift experts have delivered this for businesses across general manufacturing, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and print and packaging.
By optimising shift patterns and shift work we help:
- Maximise productivity and flexibility
- Improve capacity and throughput
- Reduce unnecessary labour costs
- Minimise fatigue and absence
- Broaden your labour pool
- Protect vital skills
Our experience
Utilities
Shift patterns and shift work are key to the immediate and long-term success of companies in utilities.
optashift experts have delivered improvements for water companies, gas and electric distribution networks and renewable energy businesses.
Our unified approach helps companies in utilities to:
- Minimise fatigue risk and support compliance
- Deploy resources efficiently within operating windows
- Quickly flex in response to volatile demand
- Exceed customer service targets
- Reduce reliance on overtime and standby
- Ensure shift work supports recruitment and retention
Our experience
Emergency Services
Emergency services need to balance rising demand with financial constraints and shift worker health.
Ambulance, police, fire and even the coast guard have relied on optashift experts to help them with shift pattern design and shift work management.
Our work in Emergency Services has helped deliver:
- Improved response times and outcomes
- Less shift overruns and fatigue risk
- Wellbeing and work-life balance improvements
- Improved fleet and facility utilisation
- Maximum capacity within budget
- Conditions that support recruitment and retention
Our experience
Warehouse & Distribution
Businesses in the warehouse and distribution space have acute labour demand and supply challenges.
optashift experts have helped many brands, third-party logistics providers and cargo handlers optimise shift patterns, shift work and conditions for shift workers.
Our approach in warehouse and distribution delivers:
- Maximum capacity from contracted hours
- Flexibility without reliance on overtime or agency
- Attractive conditions that appeal to shift workers
- More targeted deployment of agency resources
- Improved compliance and reduced reputational risk
- Opportunities for upskilling and cross skilling
Our experience
Transport & Logistics
Overtime, agency use and short notice changes to shift patterns are common in Transport and Logistics.
Airports, road and rail infrastructure businesses and ports have all benefitted from optashift’s help to change shift patterns and improve shift work.
Our work in Transport and Logistics delivers:
- More flexibility without impacting productivity or costs
- Reduced over-working and compliance risk
- Support for shift worker health and work-life balance
- Appealing shift patterns that support recruitment
- More targeted use of overtime and agency
- Increased capacity and more responsive resourcing
Our experience
Government & Public Sector
The public sector is always under pressure to deliver, despite rising demand and reduced budgets.
optashift has helped embed flexible shift patterns and shift work at a wide range of central government, local authority, healthcare and education organisations.
Our work in Government and Public Sector delivers:
- Reduced use of expensive overtime and agency
- More flexibility and certainty for shift workers
- Improved efficiency and service levels
- Regulatory and legislative compliance assurance
- Maximum productivity and minimal underutilisation
- Improved responsiveness to changing policy
Our experience
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.
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
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