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Annualised Hours - Good or Bad?

Posted by Sarah Sutherland on October 15, 2015 at 10:22am in HR Policy

Hi Everyone,

We are currently looking to move to annualised hours. It is early days at the moment and I am trying to gather as much data as possible.

We are a manufacturing business, with approx 130 staff. At the moment we run one shift pattern, but are looking to possibly change this as well.

Has anyone else gone through this process?  Any advice / Info greatfully received.

Thanks

Sarah

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  • Sarah Loates October 15, 2015 at 7:34pm

    Hi Sarah

    Thanks for the interesting post.

    We had a maintenance facility which was responsible for refurbishing turbines when the power stations were on outage so lots of hours in the summer but none in the winter when the plant was running.

    So in my experience this requires establishing the business case rationale in terms of the cost savings for the business and the commercial aspects, then the establishment of working groups involving the people who actually work the shift, also lots of consultation and negotiation!  As the site was heavily unionised we involved the unions from the initial idea stage.  I would say involving the staff was also key as we were able to jointly develop a solution which worked for both the Company and the staff. 

    There is lots of research on annualised hours, and I have included a link below.

    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/00438020310471953

    Also some hints and tips here:

    http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/annualised-hours-contracts-five-hr...

    Let us all know how you get on!

    Regards

    Sarah

    • Sarah Sutherland > Sarah Loates October 15, 2015 at 9:45pm

      Hi Sarah,

      Thanks very much for the info and links... just signed up for free trial! :)

      Regards

      Sarah

      • Sarah Loates > Sarah Sutherland October 16, 2015 at 8:00am

        No problem Sarah glad the Community could help ;-)

        Sarah

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