(02 Sep 2022, 9:23 pm)mb134 wrote There's not too much management can realistically do about unwillingness to work overtime. Drivers, across all companies, have been working insane amounts of overtime for months on end to put out the limited service there has been - there comes a point where no amount of incentive will get the (majority of) drivers in for their 'n'th 6 day week in a row! Obviously management can do things to enhance driver recruitment, but like all things that takes time and you will also have a steady flow of folk retiring, moving to other careers, or progressing within the company. It's a vicious circle really, not helped by the fact that the entire situation will be putting some drivers onto the sick with work related stress - which makes it worse for those remaining, who are more likely to leave/get sick etc.....
Hear, hear!
The only way higher management can tackle unwillingness to work overtime is to ensure that the company is fully staffed to ensure there is no overtime available.
Clearly that also needs holidays and sickness to be at the budgeted level, and if that’s a lot higher, then they actually need to be over-staffed - so we actually come back to recruitment/retention being the number one thing to address.
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