Business Continuity Planning in a Pandemic (Part 2)

How Remote Staffing Solutions can Help in a Crisis

When disruption rules, business agility becomes the key to success. More siloed traditional business models are efficient when times are stable. However, disruption and the speed with which it is occurring makes it hard for these business models to perform and succeed – therefore agility is key. Businesses need to rethink their workforce design, as slower businesses risk keeping up and losing market share to more agile competitors.

In Part 1 of this series, we explained what Business Continuity is, and why it is critical to have a Business Continuity Plan in a crisis. In this part, we will illustrate how temp staffing solutions for Remote Work will be your secret weapon for maintaining continuity at your organisation. 

 

Why you need a Remote Staffing Solution in a Crisis

Pandemics aren’t your usual business disruption, and we cannot control how the external conditions will unfold over the coming months. What can be controlled however, is your internal Workforce - and how you are to plan for half of them being unable to perform. Preparing for employees not being able to work is the crux of Pandemic Planning and remote temp workers are essential for companies to survive through to the recovery stage of a global crisis. Leveraging the power of technology at a time like this is essential. Online hiring platforms like Weploy therefore, are the most efficient way for business leaders to safeguard current employees, and ensure operational continuity now, and in the coming months. 

Benefits of Remote Temps in a Crisis

Having high-performing, remote staff members that are work ready in a matter of minutes can help businesses navigate uncertain times and solve three critical situations: 

Benefits of Remote Temps in a Crisis

Filling gaps in core teams due to absenteeism

Protecting and supporting core staff throughout inevitable influxes in customer demands or enquiries

Providing resource for the inevitable increase in workloads when businesses begin to enter restoration mode

Workplace agility is the key to success when disruptions are ahead.

Whilst traditional, siloed business models are efficient when times are stable, in the current period of unrest, businesses must adopt new technologies and rethink their Workforce Planning to stay afloat. Temporary staffing solutions can help provide this workforce agility by:

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Scaling up quickly

For out of cycle increases or unexpected crises, using temporary staff is a fast and efficient way of scaling up your workforce at short notice. With the average time to hire in Australia anywhere between 2 weeks to 2 months, having access to staff in minutes is extremely useful when urgent needs arise
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Controlling costs

A temp workforce allows you to add staff without increasing your permanent headcount and costs. You can hire multiple temps to cover spikes in demand, with no long-term commitment when the workload returns to normal.
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Try Before you buy

Many of our temps perform so well that their employers want to keep them as permanent staff! A temporary gig in your business can be viewed as a “working interview” that will enable you to see how they operate and how they fit into your team. If you like what you see, you can always invite them to interview for a full-time role, knowing that they really can do what they say they can.
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Bring in Fresh Skills

Temps bring in new and valuable skills to your company. They can also provide a new perspective on existing processes and tools used, or bring ideas from other companies that could help efficiency and overall productivity.

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Improve Employee Experience

Bringing in support staff will enable you to right-size your team so that full time staff members are not being overworked. Employee Experience is more important than ever at the moment, when there is high potential for morale to take a nosedive. Temporary support staff can help to reduce burnout, churn and refresh internal culture.  

 

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Simply put, Workforce Agility is known as the willingness to change, the ability to change, and how quickly you can change. In uncertain times of rapid change, workforces must be flexible in order to respond effectively and traditional hiring methods can be slow and inefficient. Tech-enabled hiring allows organisations to create an agile working environment, scaling teams in response to market conditions and providing support from temporary workers within minutes which will enhance productivity and maintain business continuity to stay afloat in a crisis.

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