Youre Not Down-sized due to economic pressures.

Youre Right-Sized and better positioned to achieve

Challenges
The current economic environment has accentuated three challenges contractors face:
1 Effectively sustaining the right amount of workers on projects to achieve optimal workforce productivity and profit. Todays fluctuating economy and unpredictable project pipeline requires more attention than ever to maintaining the right balance of work to skilled workers. 2 Minimizing escalating labor-oriented costs related to Workers Comp, unemployment and benefits. Costs associated with hiring on permanent employees for short-term work drive profits down for the short- and long-haul. 3 Efficiently securing craftsmen with specific skillsets, which may be even more difficult and costly than ever. While industry unemployment remains high, the shortage of top trade professionals has actually increased as our aging workforce retires and tenured craftsmen find more stable work in other sectors.

greater profit margins than ever before.

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Results
1 Overstaffingeven in a slow economy! Construction managers continue to hold on to non-productive workers even as workload fluctuates down. This hold-over occurs as management believes, as work picks up, quality craftsmen will simply not be available. The effect is companies paying between 16% and 45% in unnecessary labor costs pulled directly out of profit. Even holding on to one employee who cant be kept productively working greatly impacts profit margins. 2 Substantial increases in labor-related costs. Contractors in the hire / de-hire mode staffing up full-time workers as work increases and laying off as it decreases are driving up unemployment costs for several years out. Also, theyre amplifying their Workers Comp exposure and potential increase in premiums based on the fact that claims of all levels typically inflate as the economy declines or struggles.

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Fluctuating Workload Lost Profit due to Overstaffing / Understaffing Permanent Workforce consisting of A, B, and C level workers

Solutions
1 Keep your workforce Right-Sized. Your current permanent payroll is likely closer to right-sized than prior to the economy collapse! Tradesmen's Labor Productivity Consultants can, with a custom Labor Productivity Analysis, prove it in hard numbers. Using your historical hiring data, they will help you forecast your short- and long-term labor requirements and determine your optimal permanent skilled workforce level. Were committed to providing you just the right number of workers to sustain maximum labor productivity. You only pay for productive man hours using our high-caliber craftsmen, minimizing employee hold-over and downtime costs! 2 Shield yourself from unemployment increases and additional Workers Comp exposure. We offer our craftsmen permanent employment and handle all their payroll and unemployment insurance. In addition, our craftsmen who are stringently screened are under our Workers Comp, insulating you from rising claims and W/C costs. Critical Tradesmen International must remain prepared to provide you craftsmen, precisely when you need them, who are safety-conscious, well-trained and reliable. We meet this challenge by maintaining one of North America's largest permanent workforces and through continuous recruitment and retention initiatives. Also, because we work closely with our clients on their human resource needs even participating in project planning sessions.

Ideal/Current Workforce
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Previous Permanent Payroll Level 40-50% Reduction of full-time employees whenever planned or forced by economic pressures

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Benefits
Maintaining a smaller permanent payroll and supplementing your core workers with Tradesmens high-caliber craftsmen only when they can be kept productively working enables our clients to reduce labor costs approximately 11% 24% while sustaining higher workforce productivity levels. It also reduces costs related to unemployment, Workers Comp and benefits costs in a time when those expenditures are increasing. The result is always an improved bottom line.

Let us prove how we can help you maintain a right-sized workforce. Well do it with a No-Charge Labor Productivity Analysis:

Fluctuating Workload Reduction in Core Workforce Variable Craftsmen Used Only As Needed to Maintain Balance of Work to Skilled Workers Reduced Permanent Workforce Comprised of Your Most Talented, Core Employees Increased Profit due to Reduced Labor Cost and/or Increased Production Hours

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