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BWCC Workforce Summit Panel How to Manage a Flexible Workforce: Flexible Worker Perspective

BWCC Workforce Summit Panel How to Manage a Flexible Workforce: Flexible Worker Perspective. Stephen C. Hall. What is Intertek APTECH?

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BWCC Workforce Summit Panel How to Manage a Flexible Workforce: Flexible Worker Perspective

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  1. BWCC Workforce Summit PanelHow to Manage a Flexible Workforce: Flexible Worker Perspective Stephen C. Hall

  2. What is Intertek APTECH? • Specialty engineering consulting company that is part of the Intertek family of companies specializing in risk analysis, integrity management, and forensic engineering for the energy sector. • What do we do? • Using multi-discipline engineering teams, we assist clients in defining operating risk and developing cost-effective strategies for minimizing that risk.

  3. Work Environment • Approximately 30% of 90 person work force are flexible workers with ages running from the early thirties into the mid seventies • Offices in Houston, Texas and Sunnyvale, California, we have people working remotely in several states and provinces

  4. What does the company look for in a flexible worker? • Expertise • Disciplined work ethic • Willingness to travel • Accessibility

  5. Advantages • Intertek APTECH – Lower overhead, ability to interface with international clients “off-hours”, travel cost reduction, no relocation costs, more efficient use of part time employees • Employee – Higher productivity (less “Chit chat”, can set own work hours, no commute, “relaxed” dress code

  6. Disadvantages • Intertek APTECH – “Out of sight, out of mind”, potential loss of cohesiveness • Employee – Coordination of effort more difficult, diminishing of contact

  7. Keys to successful work flexibility • Disciplined work ethic; work as if you are in the office • High productivity • Appropriate work environment • Trust • Appropriate for the tasks that must be accomplished

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