“Special times require special actions – Rethink”
Due to the covid-19-crisis and the lockdown of many companies, orders were cancelled or put on hold. New orders were not received. The employees would therefore have been underutilized or completely without employment for a month.
By sharing employees to other companies, bottlenecks at these companies are bridged and the jobs of the own employees are preserved.
The stakeholders are external companies who do not lose any orders, the own company that does not lose its good employees (sharing covers at least the personnel costs) and the employees that know that their income is assured and they do not lose their jobs.
Due to our activities in the automation industry, we took measures long before the crisis to be able to work abroad and for other companies at any time. Therefore, at the time of the lockdown and the following months, we did not have to accept any additional operational costs.
Maintenance of jobs / maintaining the economy
The employees get to know working methods of other companies, which they can incorporate into the “home”-company.
Split of the working time between the companies. The employees work part-time for the internal and external company and thus retain their full capacity
This external job creating – and thus job security and save income – increases the loyalty of the employees
Cooperation between companies is being promoted.
e.g: 1 pax Electrical-planning: 20 weeks 100% extern, 1 pax Electrical-planning: 7 weeks 80% extern
7 pax Electrician: 4 pax 100% / 3 pax 30% extern, 1 pax Process analysis and controlling: 75% extern
However, there is always the risk of employees being poached by the external company. It’s very necessary that leaders are connected with many other company leaders at all. These was finally the reason, why we could react so promptly and share employees. At least we have seen once again, that resilience is an issue, that can be prepared in advance, because networking is a job you have to do over years.
Cover photo: W. Kohlbauer with his network partner C. Schöndorfer (credit: AGS Engineering)
