Deskless Workforce – FUCHS - A Terex Brand
Fuchs - A Terex Brand is a global manufacturer of lifting and material processing products. The group’s solutions are in use in numerous industries, including construction, infrastructure, manufacturing and energy. Fuchs - A Terex Brand, based in the town of Bad Schönborn in Baden-Wuerttemberg, is one part of the global group. The company produces veritable allrounder machinery for materials handling at scrap yards, recycling sites, in the sawmill industry or at ports. Fuchs - A Terex Brand has relied on ATOSS Workforce Management for some 350 staff for many years now. Last year, the manufacturing firm launched a “deskless workforce” campaign to better integrate the blue-collar employees into HR processes.
We wanted our deskless workers to become more involved in organizing their working time. This is precisely what our Staff Center workplaces have allowed us to do. We have reduced the amount of admin involved and – what is even more important for us – increased motivation on the shop floor.
DR. Oliver Krone-Franken
Project Manager and Business Analyst
The project was geared toward getting staff without a set desk or PC workstation involved in working time processes efficiently – an easy task for our Staff Center. Today, all blue-collar workers at Fuchs - A Terex Brand use the tool to request holidays, correct times or check their working time balances – in a simple and entirely paperless process at one of the PC workstations in the break rooms. All they have to do is log in with their transponder, enter their personal password and access their working time account. All the relevant information is presented clearly and concisely, while the tool is as intuitive to use as an app. This enables Fuchs - A Terex Brand to integrate all shop-floor staff into the HR processes efficiently – without requiring them to provide a company or personal email address. Team leaders were given around 30 minutes’ training before sharing their newly acquired knowledge with their colleagues – all in all, a quick and straightforward process. HR, managers, the works council and the deskless workers are thrilled about the smart solution. And so are we!
Source: ATOSS CUSTOMER FUCHS - A TEREX BRAND / ATOSS Annual Report 2020