The key to making flexibility work is giving your hourly workers more control over their schedule while meeting your production needs.  

What does that look like? 

MyWorkChoice starts by collecting baseline attendance data on your hourly workforce behavior. Then, using that data, we recommend updating your attendance and overtime policies to allow workers limited additional unpaid time off (2-3 days per month).  

Through the MyWorkChoice app, hourly workers can view their full-time schedule and use their additional unpaid time off by dropping the shift in the app. This allows other hourly workers to pick up and cover the shift through our automated backfill system. In addition, supervisors can see employees who dropped and picked up shifts in the MWC Client Portal 24/7. 

Additionally, we recommend making overtime voluntary. Give your hourly workers a choice to pick up additional shifts through the MyWorkChoice app and release the remaining shifts to your standby pool.   

MyWorkChoice's automated backfill system replaces antiquated call-off hotlines. Employees who can't make it to work simply drop the shift in the MyWorkChoice app. This allows other hourly workers to pick up and cover their shift automatically.  

Retaining your existing hourly workers starts by offering them more control over their schedule. Through the MyWorkChoice app and Client Portal your business will have the policy updates, technology, and data analysis to implement and manage flexibility at your facility.  

Restrictive attendance policies are the leading factor in most terminations, job abandonments, and low workplace morale issues. By giving your hourly workers and supervisors the ability to adjust their schedules, swap shifts, pick up overtime and receive regular company updates through the MyWorkChoice app, you will see a rapid increase in your retention rates.  

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Yes. Supervisors can access the Client Portal 24/7 to see:   

• Worker attendance by department and shift 
• Worker details such as Total Hours Worked, Shifts Dropped, No Shows and Tardiness
• Shift fill rates (daily, weekly, historical, and future)
• Real-time data of workers who are in the facility and clocked-in   

The Client Portal is critical part of ensuring operational efficiency by knowing who is showing up before a shift starts. 

MyWorkChoice does not replace your existing time-keeping system. Our app only requires workers to "check-in" at shift start to ensure accurate data in the client portal. Your clock remains the official record of hours worked.

MyWorkChoice collects in-depth data on your hourly workforce to determine attendance and absenteeism trends by shift time. Depending on your workforce's attendance habits, MyWorkChoice will make recommendations that may include splitting shifts. For example, a split shift would allow a worker to take the morning off to go to a doctor's appointment and still complete the afternoon half of their shift. The morning portion of their dropped shift would be automatically posted in the MyWorkChoice app and backfilled by your standby pool.

Since most facilities struggle to recruit and retain a steady workforce, most sites have moved to 10-12 hour shifts along with mandatory overtime in order to keep up with production needs. This creates a massive amount of overtime and leads to worker burnout.

MyWorkChoice calculates an optimal amount of production hours your facility needs to hit you’re your production goals. Instead of requiring overtime, the MyWorkChoice program allows you to give hourly workers the schedule they want by building a fully-trained flexible pool of workers who cover for absenteeism and overtime needs.

By having these two groups covering the production hours you need, your business will drastically reduce overtime expenses and increase productivity by retaining the talent you need.

Today’s workforce has changed. Hourly workers want a dependable full-time job that also offers flexibility in their schedule. Giving production workers more control over their schedule gives your business a massive hiring advantage in today’s competitive job market.

With MyWorkChoice's flexible workforce solutions, fully digital onboarding system, and expertise in recruitment tactics, your business will attract a new generation of potential hires.