By Rob Balfour, VP Enterprise Sales, AllWork 

To leverage any flexible workforce effectively, you first need to ensure that that the right employee, with the appropriate skill sets, are doing the right jobs. this will provide an optimal balance between labor supply and labor demand, which will yield optimal ROI. If your workforce management process is not functioning effectively, flexible workforce optimization will be difficult, inefficient, and costly. 

An on-demand workforce management program will allow you to harness your entire workforce, your existing employees and the flexible employees, while streamlining operations, reducing wasted time, cutting costs, increasing sales, and give you actionable data and insight in real-time to make better business decisions. 

Overseeing a team of remote retail workers certainly comes with its challenges. It’s hard to know exactly where your budget is having the most impact or which of your employees are performing the best if you’re using slow, outdated management methods. Increasing sales of your brand at retail is always top-of-mind, but how exactly do you move the needle? Implementing talent management tools and one technology platform means that you can transform your talent into a more productive workforce. Here are 5 ways that technology can help you increase your retail sales – that you may not have thought of!