Trade Worker Management

More tasks, fewer heads.

Published October 2007 Strategies for employee retention.

If you have salary, recruitment, or retention problems with trades workers in your facility management organization, consider doing two things: 1) Introduce a higher, multiple-trade, pay scale to allow one worker to make more if he or she can perform more than one trade (fewer people to do tasks = do more work with limited “heads”), and 2) Assign specific buildings to specific people to raise the sense of ownership on the part of building operators and their level of hands-on knowledge of the buildings they are responsible for.

- From Tradeline’s College and University Science Buildings 2007 conference.