Thanks to the rise of e-commerce, the warehousing industry has never been busier or more profitable than it is right now. However, an economy built around consumers ordering what they need at the click of a mouse does have its drawbacks, especially w ...
Five Myths about Using Gig Labor
Based on market and operational needs, a lot of companies look to a third-party company to provide warehouse labor and help manage operations. In the modern world, however, the gig economy has taken this concept a step further, and with this change h ...
How Are Minimum Wage Changes Impacting the Warehouse Industry?
While the federal minimum wage has remained steady at $7.25 per hour since 2009, individual states, counties, and cities across the United States are increasingly undertaking initiatives to raise the minimum wage for all employers in their areas. Cit ...
Managing Warehouse Worker Retention
Finding quality warehouse workers is hard enough on its own, but keeping the ones you have can sometimes be just as difficult. Given that the warehouse industry as a whole has a turnover rate of around 36 percent, maximizing employee retention as muc ...
Create the Warehouse Culture You Want
Companies that undervalue the importance of workplace culture to productivity do so at their own risk. Especially in a warehouse, where orders have to be processed quickly and follow numerous interconnected procedures, the atmosphere established by m ...