Planning for Success
One of the many advantages of partnering with Flood Brothers is our expertise in move management. We will work with your company’s move coordinators to assemble and prepare your employees for their upcoming move. On larger projects we offer move orientation meetings in which we go through your move process step by step, answering questions to erase any ambiguity about what they will need to do in preparing for their move. It is our goal to eliminate obstacles before they come up.
Labor Efficiencies
On Time and On Budget
Flood Brothers has a two part approach in staffing a project. The first is geared towards generating the optimum crew size to accomplish the move with little or no downtime during the process. We also manage the schedule of our crews to ensure that each project is staffed with well rested employees, so movers do not arrive from a normal business hour job and work until they are exhausted late at night. In this way, we minimize damage, maximize performance, and generate a fun and positive experience for our staff and our clients.
More Labor Equals Less Money
The second element in our approach is to staff the crew with enough labor to meet or exceed our client’s expectations. The way we accomplish this is simple; we use only full time, trained employees as opposed to temporary labor. Flood Brothers realizes the importance of completing each phase of the project within the time limits specified, and untrained employees would make that impossible.
Because Flood Brothers has the South’s largest staff of company employees in our industry, we are never short-staffed and will almost never charge Over Time. By properly staffing the project you should not have to pay Over Time, which is paying 50% more for a team that is 50% less effective. Also, Flood Brothers avoids using “Temp Labor” on a job which most often results in downtime and project delays.
Advantages of Having Permanent Employees
Flood Brothers has discovered that the initial costs of insurance, taxes and administration are significantly higher using a staff of permanent employees. However, the long term advantages to both Flood Brothers and your company are dramatically increased. Below are some independent studies that display the mistake in using temporary employees that are almost always day laborers who are completely untrained, unreliable and poorly motivated.
Most moving companies are primarily residential movers (85%-95%) and they must rely on temporary or day labor for their workforce. Therefore, they are forced to use a large number of unskilled laborers to accomplish their moves.
- The higher skilled “Permanent” employee requires 50% fewer laborers to accomplish the same tasks than that of the lower skilled “Temporary” workers.
- It has also been proven that trained workers will accomplish these tasks in a shorter period of time resulting in fewer hours billed.
- It is important to note that fewer hours demanded on a laborer equals less fatigue resulting in more efficient use of time on the job and less damage from tired and rushed workers.
- Additional savings are obtained because the more experienced laborer will require less supervision resulting in fewer of the more costly Project Managers onsite.
- Another tactic often used in an attempt to reduce the man hours when utilizing lower skilled laborers is by increasing the number of Supervisos. However, this usually results in costly delays resulting from conflicting management styles.
- Even more common with any scenario that is heavily dependant on labor supervision will ultimately require the uncompensated efforts of the client’s Facility Manager for its success. In other words, they will rely on the Facility Manager to take time out of their day to do the Project Management for the mover.
