WFM Weekly: Spreadsheets weren’t designed for WFM

Labor Planning Spreadsheets

This week’s Workforce Management news and insights for MEP contractors:

🥊 RIVET vs. spreadsheets: Purpose-built interfaces

🗺️ Location-based Rostering

💪 Labor Planning at Tessiers Mechanical Contractors

📚 Jobs-in-pursuit Labor Planning how-to

💡 Register for our fall webinar series

🧑‍💻 We’re hiring!

RIVET vs. spreadsheets: A purpose-built interface

Spreadsheets are fine for storing data, but when it comes to advanced tasks like Scheduling or Dispatching your workforce, you really need a purpose-built tool with an interface designed to solve a specific problem. Like RIVET.

View your field employees and projects on a map

Assigning workers based on how close they are to the job site is simple with RIVET’s map feature.

Tessiers Mechanical’s best-in-class Labor Planning

After prioritizing a Workforce Management platform and doubling down on process discipline, Tessiers Mechanical Contractors has seen a massive shift in job profitability and Labor Productivity. “We were 1:1,” Vice President Bill DeNet said. “The past five years, we’ve been 10:1 in profit gain to profit fade on jobs. A lot of that comes from our labor savings.”

How to: Labor Forecasting jobs in pursuit

Contractors consistently tell us that they struggle for two reasons: when there isn’t enough work to keep everyone busy, and when they’re overextended and drowning. The first session of our Workforce Management training series is live. Learn how Labor Forecasting in RIVET can ensure you’ll have enough people to cover your jobs in pursuit.

Register for our free webinars

We’ve been hard at work preparing awesome training materials on core workflows within our Workforce Management platform. Register for our free webinar series today for a behind the scenes look at RIVET’s core Workforce Management workflows.

We’re hiring!

We’ve got several open positions that we’re hiring for, including Project Manager – Integrations. Know someone with a passion for cross-department collaboration? Send ’em our way.

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