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Events, Forums & Training Days

Working Time Solutions periodically host masterclasses, seminars and forums covering working time change solutions, including annual hours strategies, shift pattern planning and workforce forecasting, scheduling and management methods. These events include:

  • Shift pattern planning forums and training
  • Annual hours training
  • Workforce management discussions
  • Working Time Change forums

Events are held at prestigious locations through out the country. These events cover a variety of subjects related to Working Time issues and allows delegates to learn practical techniques and solutions to their own specific issues. Attend these events if you want to:

  • Hear ‘warts and all’ experiences from real life users
  • Reduce labour costs, labour wastage and the need for overtime, agency and temporary staffing
  • Learn about flexible working, annualised hours and demand-led rostering techniques
  • Benefit from professional guidance about the business analysis process
  • Learn about overcoming objections to working time change
  • Become more responsive to rapid changes in customer demands
  • Lower absenteeism rates and improve work-life balance for employees
  • Overcome inefficient working practices, reduce inventory levels and increase operational or service capacity
  • Improve customer responsiveness and accommodate seasonal or cyclical demand

Next event

4th Annual Working Time Forum

The principles of Lean Employee Resourcing – Lean-ER™

“How Lean-ER™ can help reduce costs, increase productivity and improve efficiency”

3rd & 4th March 2010,
Celtic Manor Resort, South Wales

  • Reduce labour costs but improve productivity, flexibility and staff motivation
  • Learn lessons directly from organisations who have introduced working time change
  • Consider change management strategies and tactics
  • Learn about the principles of Lean Employee Resourcing – Lean-ER™ 
  • Optimise and develop your shift patterns and change ways of working
  • Find out whether working time change, annual hours or demand-led rostering could help you
  • Reduce expensive overtime and untrained agency dependency  whilst meeting the demands of your business
  • Understand what impact shift work has on Health and Safety
  • Know how working time legislation and the end of the Opt-Out affects you
  • The forum covers a broad range of working time issues that may commonly affect organisations – especially relevant in today’s economic climate. Featuring expert working time change specialists, delegates will also hear real-life case studies and representatives from industry, including Unilever, Constellation Europe, Severn Trent Water, PPG Architectural Coatings and the Celtic Manor Resort. The Health and Safety Executive will also explain the impact shift work has on Health and Safety. This topical forum also provides the opportunity for delegates to have private one-to-one meetings with some of the leading experts in the field.

    For more information, including a detailed agenda either:

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    Feed-back from previous delegates of previous events :

    “The speakers were most relevant because of the practical information given regarding the implementation of annualised hours”  Wessex Water

    Read more feedback here

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