Exploring Business Opportunities in On-Demand Staffing

The on-demand staffing industry offers numerous opportunities, but success requires the right combination of people, technology, and processes. Inefficiencies can quickly drive up costs, making it crucial to streamline your operations from the start.

To help you explore the business potential within on-demand staffing, here’s a look at key sectors, common challenges, and how technology can help you address those issues effectively.

Hospitality Staffing

• Challenges: Frequent last-minute job requests create pressure to fill positions quickly, ensuring workers are prepared and arrive on time.

• Tech Solutions: Use automation to send job notifications and reminders. Implement mobile clock-in features and no-show alerts. Internally, use technology to track no-shows and rule violations, and quickly fill gaps with high-quality staff.

Experiential Marketing and Event Staffing

• Challenges: Staffing varies by shift, with a mix of full-time and part-time employees. Manual data entry and in-house hotel tracking systems complicate operations.

• Tech Solutions: Empower clients to approve timesheets and request staff. Integrate external timesheet data or offer a hybrid system allowing for app or tablet-based clock-ins and outs. Use technology to manage both flex and permanent staff in a unified system.

Substitute Teacher Staffing

• Challenges: Last-minute requests require rapid response, and staff must have the proper credentials.

• Tech Solutions: Allow clients to create lists of preferred substitutes and add reviews. Automate job notifications, instantly alerting preferred substitutes of openings. Send automated alerts to schools to keep them informed about who will be filling the position.

Healthcare Staffing

• Challenges: Only credentialed workers can be assigned, and real-time scheduling is essential.

• Tech Solutions: Enable self-service profiles for staff to update credentials, and send reminders for upcoming expirations. Use app-based clock-ins and provide a real-time, accessible schedule to eliminate support requests and avoid double bookings.

No matter the industry, these pain points and solutions can be addressed with the right staffing technology. To streamline your staffing operations and reduce costs, contact us for a demo of our on-demand staffing platform.