Graham Lusty Trailers - video transcript
Listen to Shay Chalmers, CEO of Graham Lusty Trailers talk about their company's workforce flexibility.
[CEO of Graham Lusty Trailers]
Welcome to Graham Lusty Trailers.
we are an Australian-owned proudly Queensland manufactured Trailer Company.
I've been with the business only four months now um I'm the CEO of Graham Lusty trailers and I've learned so much about my workforce in that time.
During the first week that I was here, I did a survey to really understand what was most important to them. Was it flexibility was it time or was it money? And so we got about 90% of those surveys back in the first few days and what I found was that we had a large proportion of our workforce that needed to get out in order to pick their kids up from school.
We also had a large portion of our workforce that really wanted the opportunity to earn more money but then we also had a portion of our workforce that really wanted more time, so what we did was restructure our entire work week to enable all three of those things.
We work 4 days here if you want to work on Friday it's optional but it's an over time day so you can have the option to increase your salary uh we also have 2 shifts one of which means that the guys can leave on time every day to go and pick their kids up from school.
In manufacturing there is a skill shortage and particularly in the type of fabrication that we do, we manufacture aluminium and steel products and do a lot of fit out so it's really really tough to get skilled workers. We have an ad out constantly and we could hire another 100 today to meet the demand if we could.