Mental Health

Work Place Initiative #4

Name: Work Place Initiative #4
Uploaded: 2025-04-04T22:43:40Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: Having flexible start times for work, and allowing for longer breaks when workloads are high will help reduce staff's stress levels.

Having flexible start times for work, and allowing for longer breaks when workloads are high will help reduce staff's stress levels.

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Mark Sharp

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Number four, encourage flexible scheduling. Rotate shifts to avoid overworking. Certain employees. Allow for flexible start times or longer breaks when workloads are high. Again, some of this chew a certain extent. Okay. Um, working with flexible start times. I think could be huge for our industry. Your companies should do a test on the time of day.

You get the most emergency on call, and I would put a small amount of a dollar. I have a dollar I can put towards this that a lot of your emergency on-call time will come between five and 7:00 PM Here's an idea. Change someone's schedule so that they're working 10 to seven. That's just their normal everyday work Schedule 10 to seven, you'll cut down one on the number of emergency work, work orders you get because you will have someone on property who's there from 10 to seven.

Have that be their normal shift. Have that be the shift of the person who is on call. So if you rotate, call every week, rotate call every two weeks. Whoever is on call works the 10 to seven shift and those extra two hours, the 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM will cut down on your emergency calls, your lockouts, your, oh, I just got home from work and I noticed this.

Whatever, like you, y'all know the drill. You, you deal with it every day. That will down on, on costs.

Stress from being home, being in your home atmosphere, going through your daily life with, with your family, whatever it is you do. Um, we'll cut down on that. Okay. So having flexible, flexible start times, it's like, oh, well there won't be anyone at the property to make sure that this person is working. If that's your response, you have the wrong people if you don't trust your staff.

You have the wrong people, have flexible start times. Think about how to rotate those shifts or provide some type of flexible start time because the answers are out there. You just need to do what works best for you and for your company. But I, there's an answer out there. Okay. So that is the, that was number four, to encourage flexible scheduling.