If you own a small shop and only have a few employees, you may be concerned about how to staff for the holidays. It's often difficult to predict from year to year how much business your shop will get since the economy and other factors are always fluctuating. Working with a staffing agency could be the right choice. Here are ways they can help.
Provide Help When An Employee Is Off Sick
The holiday season often coincides with an increase in seasonal colds and the flu. If one or more of your employees call in sick, you may not be able to keep up with your customers when you have a busy day. When you work with a staffing agency, they send replacement staff only on days they are needed. This gives you peace of mind you'll always have staff for your store to stay open and make sales.
Send Help When You Get Busy
If you have an extra-busy store over the holidays, you may need extra help in the short term. A staffing agency can send temporary help for the few weeks during the holiday season and then stop once your sales slow down. This allows you to be flexible with your staffing needs, and it helps you avoid problems with hiring and training temporary help yourself. The staffing agency should match the employees they send with the type of work they'll be doing so you won't have much training to do.
Save You Time And Money
When you work with a staffing agency, you pay the agency directly rather than pay the individual workers. This simplifies your business, and that saves you time and worry. You might find using a staffing service will save money over hiring your own employees for seasonal work, especially if it turns out you have a slow season.
Plus, you won't be bothered with hunting for help, interviewing prospects, and going through the hiring process. You simply work with the agency and let them know your needs and they will choose the right staff to send for the day or longer.
Find Long-Term Employees
As your business grows, you'll deal with many staffing issues. You may need emergency help on some days, and you may need long-term help to replace an employee out on sick leave or pregnancy leave. You might even want help finding suitable permanent employees.
A staffing agency can help with all of these situations and be standing by when you need their services during the holiday season and any other time of the year.
