Labor management is key to productivity

摘要

The original intent of this column was to discuss how to maximize production in manpower by scheduling and project phasing, but with the onset of the current economic downturn and the very real prospects of large scale layoffs, I've opted to go a slightly different way.rnIt goes without saying that labor is the "fuel" that makes a job go. Of all elements in subcontracting, none is more difficult to quantify, and estimate correctly, than labor. None is more essential either. It's easy to get accurate material and sub-subcontract figures, but getting the most "mileage" per man hour invested is harder to get a cost on. There are so many variables to the labor equation that to try and put it in a box, as some of the estimating programs and labor charts do, is really an exercise in futility.