Only 30% hire more staff, mostly large transport companies, and even 35% don’t replace their employees’ sick leave
Four in ten Spanish companies, 40.5%, use overtime to maintain productivity at possible peak times, compared to other solutions, such as hiring more staff or deploying resources from other areas, which require more are used. This is reflected in the Adecco Outsourcing Barometer on Productivity and Efficiency published Tuesday, which is based on a survey of more than 2,000 Spanish directors, managers and middle managers.
Second, 30.5% say they use contracting (either directly or with a third party) and another 29% say the company resorts to internal staff from other areas, pre-trained, to act in case of work peaks.
Larger companies and those operating in the transport sector are those who report contracting more than the rest (directly or with a third party) in the event of peak workloads, compared to small and medium-sized companies (less than 250 employees) whose reinforcement is based on at a higher average in the use of overtime.
In the same vein, two in three companies surveyed (64.87%) declare that they replace the absence of employees, either always (24.7%) or when the absence is longer than 15 days (40.2%). On the other hand, one in three indicate that their company does not replace any or only in exceptional cases (35.1%).
As the company grows, the absences of employees of more than 15 days are replaced in a greater proportion than smaller companies, where there are only exceptional cases of replacements.
There has long been a broad public debate about linking salaries to productivity, although according to this research there are still few companies that determine their remuneration policy on the basis of this criterion. In concrete terms, 69% of companies indicate that they apply variable remuneration based on objectives or productivity, regardless of the applicable employment contract. However, less than half (48.1%) apply it to all employees involved in the process and 20.9% only to managers. At the other extreme, 31% say their company does not apply variable compensation based on objectives or productivity.
Another effective way to improve productivity is training. For this reason, more than two in three employees (67.4%) indicate that their company uses specific training plans with the aim of improving the productivity and efficiency of human resources. It is in large or very large companies, more than in smaller companies, that plans are applied to improve employee productivity and efficiency.
“Spain is one of the countries with the lowest labor productivity in the OECD, and over the past 25 years has also widened its distance from the rest of the countries,” said Javier Blasco, director of the Adecco Group Institute, at the press conference of the presentation. Blasco also pointed out that while the rest of the states increase productivity in economic growth cycles, here, in times of crisis and recession, productivity is greater than in expansion cycles.
Source: La Verdad
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