Podcast | How to Hang on to Your Warehouse Workers

Want to keep your warehouse workers in a tough labor market? Give them the right tools to do their jobs.

These are tough times when it comes to attracting and retaining skilled labor in the warehouse. Technology tools can help, but they have to be the right ones. Many of the devices being deployed today aren’t up to the expectations and standards of a younger, tech-savvy workforce. On this episode, we explore how to enhance end-user enablement of warehouse technology, guided by Ed Kennedy, vice president of end user enablement with Barcoding, and Kelley Wood, global customer marketing leader with Honeywell. We’ll learn why the wrong tools will send workers out the door almost immediately, and how the right ones will keep them on the job. And we’ll discuss both the benefits and limitations of gamification strategies in the warehouse, as a means of boosting worker productivity and morale. Finally, we talk about how it all ties back to the ultimate goal: enhancing the customer experience. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.

This episode is sponsored by Barcoding and Honeywell.

Show notes: 

A Barcoding report on warehouse gamification.