Labor Pains & Profit Drains: How to Reduce Your Labor Costs - Softcover

Deosiers, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143638933X ISBN 13: 9781436389334

Publisher: Xlibris, Corp., 2008

Synopsis

Your employees are underproducing and being overpaid with overtime for the privilege to do so and you may have only yourself to blame To run a smarter more profitable business you must have a dream to reach for and a system in place to make sure it becomes reality Efficiency Engineer Don Desrosiers has a few tricks up his sleeves to teach you how to track finances train and motivate employees and cut costs like you never thought possible He can help business owners and managers see problems identify their causes and fix them So who s on board for the next training session Don Desrosiers is a workflow engineer efficiency expert and a management consultant to drycleaners and shirt launderers throughout America and Western Europe The system he employs allows him to typically cut his client s payroll by 25 or more and it can be universally applied to all industries Unfortunately employees too often goof off during the work week sometimes subconsciously milking the time clock so they can get their 40 hours or more every week However it s not really their fault Management has remained oblivious to the problem or worse has simply endorsed it by letting it occur If you allow four employees to skate by and accomplish the work that should be done with only three then your labor costs are simply too high You can cut them drastically but first you must believe it can be done Then you have to visualize a realistic goal and pursue it Unfortunately that is a lot easier said than done The truth is there is no such thing as a quick easy fix to the problem However by reading Don s book you will become capable of developing a system to significantly cut your labor expenses Measure Everything The first step is to measure everything No matter what business you are in you need to have certain productivity standards There must be some sort of benchmark to measure your own results against For example in the

About this title

About the Author:

Don Desrosiers became a restaurant manager at 18 years old, but changed paths a couple of years later when he joined the drycleaning industry. He moved through the ranks in that field, eventually becoming the owner of his own business in 1990, and then selling that to become a consultant to that industry. He is now a high-profile management consultant, efficiency expert and work-flow engineer through his company, Tailwind Systems. Over the past ten years Desrosiers has realized that his methods for optimizing efficiency in business are applicable to all businesses and this book is the realization of that dream.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 143638933X
• ISBN 13: 9781436389334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118