Today’s businesses are faced with ever-changing market conditions, where economic downturns, soaring inflation and changing consumer behaviour patterns are forcing a rethink of traditional staffing models. Labour costs, the largest fixed cost for many companies, need particularly careful management. GoWorkaBit Hub’s strategy offers a smart solution by transforming labour costs into variable costs that help companies to operate more flexibly and efficiently.
Many companies face the dilemma of how to maintain a flexible workforce without jeopardising productivity and financial stability. Particularly in difficult economic times, where every expense has to be carefully accounted for. Traditionally, labour costs have been fixed, irrespective of a company’s current needs or workload.
GoWorkaBit’s flexible Workforce Hub model allows companies to turn fixed labour costs into variable costs. This means that a company only pays for labour when it is actually needed. Thanks to the online platform, the company can react quickly to changing demands by increasing or decreasing the number of employees as needed.
Advantages of the Hub model:
- Cost-efficiency: reduces unnecessary labour costs as staff are only brought in for increased workloads. Reduces costs associated with overtime and under-staffing.
- Flexibility: allows companies to adapt quickly to changing market conditions by reducing or increasing staff numbers by the day or even by the hour, according to the real situation.
- Efficiency: optimises the use of staff by ensuring that the workforce is used to the maximum when it is most needed for the business.
- Productivity: reduces stress and burnout caused by overworking and increases worker productivity.
GoWorkaBit is a trusted partner to provide us with the right quality labour at the right time. We have thought through the use of the Hub and are using it for specific purposes to increase our service volumes. When we involve people from the Hub, we consider them in the same way as we do our own full-time staff – for example, if they haven’t attended the morning team meeting, we go through the important things with them separately.
Maren Penu
HR Director
Prisma Peremarket AS
How can GoWorkaBit help?
GoWorkaBit can help your company set up its own flexible Employee Hub. The Hub is made up of employees who are willing to commit to your company for the long term. After company training and their first real working days, employees will be familiar with the company’s work processes, but will only be engaged when there is a real need. This approach helps companies to keep their core workforce at an optimum level, while the flexible Hub is ready to join quickly when demand for labour increases.
Among GoWorkaBit’s clients are companies that have seen significant reductions in labour costs since implementing the hub strategy. For example, GoWorkaBit has been able to reduce labour costs by 10-30% by increasing flexibility in the retail sector.
We first tried out the hitchhikers in 2016, when we were looking for extra hands for two days a week to deliver a few large and time-critical jobs to a client on time. This has grown into a long-standing partnership with GoWorkaBit, where we now have our own Hub, made up of people who have been with us for a long time and who we’ve grown to know. We are able to give each other feedback on the platform and both our Hub members and our employer make an effort to make each other feel good. From the Hub, we get 95% staff fill rates to meet increased order volumes.
Külli Tamm
HR Manager
As Printall
GoWorkaBit’s Flexible Workforce Hub model offers a solution for companies looking to optimise their labour costs while maintaining operational flexibility. This model not only helps to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment, but also creates the basis for sustainable growth and development. GoWorkaBit’s Hub model could be just the tool your company needs to take the next step towards efficiency and flexibility.