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September Edition 2024

CIO Bulletin

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Indeavor: Transforming Workforce Scheduling through Strategic Talent Advantage for High-Performance Organizations

Talent acquisition in both industrial and operational contexts does not stop with hiring. The aspects of retention, engagement, compliance, and productivity are becoming more characteristic of the ability of organizations to retain a skilled workforce in the long term. In the case of the companies that are equipped with 24/7 facilities, the inefficient scheduling, manual organization, and workforce invisibility usually impair even the most effective recruitment practices. With talented leaders pursuing end-to-end workforce optimization, current-day scheduling and people operations platforms are now vital facilitators of high-performing talent ecosystems.

Indeavor is the foundational element of this evolution and a workforce management and scheduling solution designed to productively work in a complex and industrial setting. Indeavor is trusted by over 100,000 users across the globe and helps organizations to match labor to production need by automating workers, providing real-time insights, and engaging employees in a personalized way. The company assists companies in saving on the investment of talent through the removal of the manual scheduling inefficiencies and also enhances the operational performance.

Matching Labor to Demand with Intelligent Scheduling

The ability of Indeavor to generate its schedules automatically is the key strength. The platform builds precise, compliant timetables in seconds, considering the production necessities, employee expertise, accessibility, seniority, and work rules. This demand-based strategy can guarantee that the right individuals are in the right positions at the right time to prevent overstaffing, understaffing and expensive production hiccups. This accuracy benefits both talent planning and stronger employee usage among talent leaders and operations leaders.

Real-Time Workforce Agility in Dynamic Environments

Disruption of the workforce is unavoidable in industries, whether it goes up to last-minute call-offs or blindsided production shifts. Indeavor provides organizations with real-time problem-solving applications that give schedules the ability to change instantly without affecting output. Automation can address mandatory overtime, no-shows, switch swaps, and qualification gaps and allow supervisors to be responsive to compliance and fairness throughout the workforce.

Employee Engagement through Schedule Transparency

In addition to efficiency in its operations, Indeavor highly values employee experience. Its mobile engagement app helps employees to be visible and control their schedules. They can check shifts, approve leaves, take on extra hours, and easily change shifts on their phones. This openness decreases absenteeism, enhances morale and solidifies retention, essential results for organizations that are fighting to retain talent on the front line.

Data-Driven Labor Insights That Support Talent Strategy

Indeavor labor analytics allows organizations to gain real-time insights into the business impact of scheduling decisions. The platform links operational metrics and talent data, including workforce usage and staffing gaps, over- and under-shift trends. It allows leaders to compare performance by position, facility and time frame to make informed decisions that will lower the cost of labor and enhance productivity. In large facilities, such insights have provided an average savings of half a million per 500 employees annually.

Centralized People Operations for Scalable Workforce Management

Indeavor is a centralized people operations system, which replaces the unsynchronized spreadsheets and paper trail. It combines employee scheduling, absence management, qualification tracking, compliance and workforce planning into one system. Organizations can decrease errors by up to 95 percent by automatically removing data entry and manual coordination and also standardize processes between locations and teams.

Built-In Compliance, Safety, and Fatigue Management

Workforce credibility and employer reputation involve compliance, which is an essential element. Indeavor integrates union regulations, law, safety, and fatigue regulations to be directly part of the scheduling process. The platform actively avoids violations, complaints, and safety hazards by imposing limitations at the moment of booking. This solution does reduce legal risk and strengthens employer-employee trust.

Skills-Based Scheduling and Workforce Enablement

With skills shortages remaining a challenge to industrial employers, Indeavor allows competency-based scheduling to match operational requirements to workforce skills. The platform monitors the certifications, skills and qualifications of the employees and only suitably trained employees are sent to particular positions. Integrated skills data also assist with upskilling, reskilling, and long-term workforce planning, one of the pillars of sustainable talent acquisition and retention.

Seamless Integration with Enterprise Systems

Indeavor is connected with any other HCM, ERP, payroll, and time and attendance solutions; workforce data can easily run through the organization. This interoperability enables the leaders of talent, HR, finance and operations to operate and decide on the same source of truth, enhancing the cross-functional alignment.

From Scheduling Software to Talent Infrastructure

The unique feature of Indeavor is that the scheduling of the workforce is not a single operation but a cornerstone of the talent strategy. Indeavor empowers organizations to realize optimal workforce investments by automating complexity, empowering employees and providing actionable insights.

In a world where the best recruitment and talent acquisition agencies can be measured not just by hiring effectiveness but by ability to retain workers, Indeavor is positioned as an agency that helps cast talent strategy beyond a hiring process. Using clever planning, analytics, and interactivity, the company is still assisting organizations to create a resilient, compliant, and highly functioning workforce, where the contemporary scheduling is actually compensated.

Brandon Schwarz, CEO of Indeavor

“Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems to provide real-time visibility and control over scheduling, allowing businesses to optimize their labor force and forecasting, reduce operational costs, and increase overall productivity.”

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