Lockdown restrictions are slowly being lifted. As staff, managers and unions work to ensure that workplaces are implementing measures to keep their workers safe, more and more businesses are putting plans in place for their staff to return. With the restrictions lifting gradually, the demands for employees in a number of businesses are increasing.

The three-step plan to exit the coronavirus lockdown includes different working sectors moving to resume business as usual. In particular, construction, manufacturing, distribution and food production are working to phase out furloughed staff, while the education sector, cinemas, restaurants and the hospitality trade are hoping to re-open from July onwards.

Many of these industries will be reopening with social distancing and safety measures in place. It is highly likely that businesses will use some or all of these proposed measures:

– Rotating furlough leave.
– Staggering staff arrival and departure times.
– Staggering break times in communal areas.
– Introducing split teams.
– Introducing hand sanitiser and handwashing facilities in key areas in the workplace.
– Promoting one-way systems.
– Limiting the number of people allowed in small spaces.

Any of these measures are highly likely to prompt staff changes; for example, managing staff schedules to enable employees who have been exposed to the virus to self-isolate, providing cover for ill employees and making sure a business has enough staff in place to safely operate will require many businesses to hire and train new employees for the time being.

Recruitment agencies will soon find that they have a lot of job roles to fill and a lot of candidates to track and support. To speed up your staff’s productivity, a recruitment tracking system can help to automate your recruiting and staffing operations. This makes it a very useful tool as the UK job market is set to reopen.

Such a system can help your recruiting staff to be quicker, to be more organised, and to streamline information used by the agency across different departments. There can be nothing more important in this current timeframe, with staff scattered across many homes and workplaces, to have your workforce accessing the same information and able to implement best practice as soon as possible. ATS software enables an employment application to be followed step-by-step online, with all the necessary data kept in one secure place in the cloud. You can build a relationship with both applicants and clients and update any information at a moment’s notice.

Chameleon-i is a fully integrated CRM software system developed to support recruitment agencies and their staff with everything from client data to posting on social media. Get a 30-day free trial, with no credit card required; alternatively, contact us if you would like to know more.