Finding the perfect staffing balance to optimise your workforce management can be a stressful process, especially with the added pressure of rising costs in the mix. But how can smart staffing solutions help you tackle the never-ending rising costs?
At Access Guestline, we provide our customers with a suite of smart solutions to help them navigate rising costs and streamline their hotel operations. Whether you want to explore smart staffing software or are unsure on how to improve your workforce management, we want to equip you with the right solutions that will optimise your business.
In this article, we will discover how smart technology, really is helping you combat staffing levels, wage costs and profitability to keep your hotel business ahead of the game.
Why managing your hotel’s workforce is key to keeping costs under control
The recent budget announcement has shaken things up in the hospitality and hotel industry, especially with the increase in employer wage bills. According to Hotel Owner, half of hospitality operating costs are due to staff expenses making it more important than ever for hoteliers to invest in smart staffing solutions to keep costs under control. Managing staff attendance and creating accurate staff schedules will significantly help keep labour costs down as you can avoid overstaffing issues and reduce unnecessary overtime hours.
How smarter scheduling can help reduce hotel wage costs
So, how can you tackle wage costs with smarter staffing solutions? You might have researched multiple ways to streamline your scheduling processes but haven’t found that perfect fit. That’s where Rotaready comes in. With its ability to generate rotas automatically, forecast demand and accurately monitor staff time and attendance for your payroll processes, you can efficiently optimise your hotel workforce all in one place. In fact, customers who have incorporated Rotaready into their smart staffing solutions have seen an ROI of 620%.
Reduce your wage costs with Rotaready by:
- Creating rotas that adhere to employee contractual terms, skills and allocated hours.
- Achieving the optimal wage percentage with the help of our advanced cost control functionality.
- Producing instantly accurate timesheets that automatically apply your rounding rules and match attendance record with shifts.
The smart way to balance staffing levels and boost productivity
Managing staff levels is not easy and sometimes creates more frustration than it’s worth. However, with the rapid development of smart technology solutions, hospitality and hotel businesses are now using real-time analytics to improve their workforce management processes and optimise their staffing needs.
Unifocus highlights that smart, automated staff scheduling can save hoteliers an average of 5-10% in labour costs by balancing staffing levels with operational demands. Integrating smart scheduling software into your hotel workforce management solutions will help you:
- Make more informed staffing decisions with easy integrations, sales forecasting and scheduling to meet business demands.
- Reduce employee turnover with fairer scheduling decisions to deliver a better overall employee experience.
- Gain back hours to invest elsewhere in your business with rota templates and instantly accurate time sheets.
- Have greater visibility across multiple sites to identify areas of inefficient staffing by reviewing hours by shift type and cost stream to avoid underspending.
Why better forecasting helps hotels run more smoothly and improves profitability
Forecasting your hotel revenue is crucial in keeping you fully prepared for the financial challenges that may be looming ahead. Without an accurate view of your hotel’s revenue, you will be putting your workforce and staffing operations at risk of not meeting financial targets and operational demands. By having an accurate forecasting report, you can create strategic financial plans to save costs and react to economic fluctuations, changes in customer trends and any unforeseen operational expenses.
Rotaready’s demand forecasting features aligns your hotel needs with smart staffing solutions using advanced modelling and deep learning techniques. Having accurate forecasting data reports will allow you to streamline your rota scheduling processes by considering national holidays, seasonal changes, historical sales and past trends.
Take control of your costs with our smart staffing software
Finding a way to organise and schedule your staffing levels is not plain sailing and can be a costly area of your hotel business. But as we have discovered, smart staffing solutions will help streamline your hotel operation and make your workforces feel supported, engaged and more productive.
In this article, we have explored how you can battle rising costs with smart staffing solutions, such as Rotaready, that will help you streamline your workforce management processes, boost profitability and control rising costs.
At Access Guestline, our mission is to help you make your hotel processes easy, simple and accessible. We ensure our customers are fully prepared to optimise their hotel workforce management with Rotaready by helping them:
- Create accurate staff schedules to meet hotel demands and rising costs.
- Reduce wage costs by forecasting revenue and monitoring staff time and attendance.
- Track employee performances with real-time reporting and analytics.
Are you ready to start your smart staffing journey? Discover how Access Guestline and Rotaready’s smart staffing solutions can help you save hotel costs and optimise your hotel business.
And if you want to optimise your hotel workforce management and deliver unforgettable customer experience, take a look at our other suite of smart products.