Respect isn’t a soft skill, it's a strategy. When temp workers feel valued, they perform better, return for future shifts, and become part of a company’s trusted labor force. Businesses who respect their temp labor benefit in great ways. They have better fill rates and they’re able to bring workers back over many years and thousands of shifts.
No matter which of the types of staffing services a business uses, respecting workers has positive results. The most impactful result is it makes finding temp staff for my business easier. When temp workers near me are treated with respect they are more likely to want to return for future shifts. This decreases the amount of time managers spend on finding new workers and instead can invite workers they already know back for future shifts.
With online staffing platforms, like Bacon, businesses can rate, rehire and build a team of reliable temp workers. You don’t have to take our word for it, here are three examples of the benefits of respecting temp workers.
Utah Valley Convention Center
Utah Valley Convention Center has sourced event and catering temp staff through Bacon for many years. UVCC has done over 1,400 shifts and has kept a 93% average fill rate. UVCC uses Bacon across all their different departments, including serving, bartending, security, set up, take down, and cleaning.
UVCC loves the flexibility and dependability Bacon provides. UVCC can scale labor up or down based on event schedules but still have the reliable general labor staffing they need. With the ability to build a bench of workers and UVCC’s effort to respect workers, UVCC shifts fill quickly, sometimes in as little as 5 minutes.
“We just feel like Bacon has our back. When we have special needs for 25 banquet servers for one shift on one night, we know that Bacon can pull that off and come through.” -Maylene Kavanaugh
UVCC Results:
- 1,4000 Shifts
- 93% Fill Rate
- Flexibility to scale labor up or down
- Shifts filling in as little as 5 minutes
doTERRA
doTERRA is an essential oils company that has used Bacon for multiple years for warehouse temp staffing. As a company with fluctuating labor needs, doTERRA uses Bacon to find temp employees and match staffing numbers to real time demand.
doTERRA has worked over 12,000 shifts and had an average fill rate of 97%. doTERRA exemplifies creating a culture of respecting all employees, from full time labor to short term temp labor. Director of Fulfillment Neil Kearsley emphasises that doTERRA feels like their employees are their number one asset, and they treat them as such.
doTERRA wasn’t getting the flexibility to meet their variable demand with traditional temp agencies near them, Bacon gave them a way to staff their warehouse according to their unique demand. doTERRA usually posts shifts for 15 to 20 workers, and these shifts fill completely in 20 to 30 minutes.
“I think the Bacon workers like the culture here. We make them feel included and we make everyone feel welcome. We are all a family here at doTERRA.”-Katie Evans
doTERRA Results:
- Shifts for 15-20 workers filling in 30 minutes
- 12,000 shifts worked
- 97% fill rate
- Flexibility to staff for variable demand
AE&ES
Amusement, Events, and Exhibits Services LLC, or AE&ES, runs million dollar events for the biggest brands out there. And they staff them with 83% Bacon workers. AE&ES had struggled to find reliable temp labor and after trying every source of temporary labor near me they gave Bacon a chance.
Bacon’s flexible and transparent platform combined with the incredible respect AE&ES shows temp workers resulted in effective results. AE&ES has an average fill rate of 104%, because they utilize the backup worker program.
AE&ES COO Steffany Avera has developed a system of training and investing in temp workers to create a successful event staffing strategy. Avera emphasises that investing in temp workers is just as important as investing and training full time employees.
From the top down AE&ES shows respect to their workers and the workers notice that. When workers are respected they want to come back and they want to do a good job.
“I don’t look at people like they are a body or a pulse, they are legitimately part of my team.” -Steffany Avera
AE&ES Results:
- 104% Fill rate
- 83% staffed by Bacon
- Built a bench of reliable workers
Conclusion
Respecting temp workers isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the smart way to build a receivable, scalable, high-performing labor force. With platforms like Bacon changing how temp work works businesses are able to find local workers and get shifts done.
