Franz & Wach has already survived the crisis and is already focusing on growth again with three new branches. Other personnel service providers have lost ground.
Marion Limburg and branch manager Jürgen Kühner in front of the new Franz & Wach branch in Mosbach
The corona crisis has not left the personnel services sector unscathed. The downward trend in employment in temporary staffing since November 2017 has continued during the crisis.[1]. Franz & Wach, on the other hand, has come through the crisis well. "Once again, we were lucky that our customer structure is broad-based and that we are not so heavily dependent on the automotive industry or aviation," comments Managing Director Andreas Nusko the development. There had been individual cutbacks, e.g. when the assembly lines at a Bavarian car manufacturer in Munich came to a standstill for several weeks, but We were able to compensate for these order losses quite well by deployments in other sectors and companies.. In addition, in the past few months several new customers were gained. This prompted us to open additional business outlets. Thus was opened a branch in Mosbachin order to be able to tap the applicant market in the Neckar-Odenwald district even better. Franz & Wach showed a strong growth in the Hanseatic City of Bremenwhere, among other things, we fully staff the regional vaccination center. In order to be able to recruit even better, a second office was therefore opened in the west of the Hanseatic city. For the retail chain NKD we are since March as a Main supplier for the central logistics center in Bindlach (Bayreuth district). Franz und Wach has now moved into office space on the company premises there. Here, not only their own employees are supervised, but also the other service providers are controlled.
"We are very confident that we will be able to continue this successful trend in the coming months, especially as we are in a very good economic and organizational position and some of our industry competitors are just leaving the market."Nusko is confident and alludes to the Corona wave of insolvencies, which also swept away some companies in the personnel services sector. Employees have already been taken over from competitors at several locations in order to protect them from unemployment and customers from financial risks.
Photo: Marion Limburg and branch manager Jürgen Kühner in front of the new Franz & Wach branch in Mosbach (Neckar-Odenwald district)
Study by Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences shows what employees value about the temporary staffing industry Internal employees in the staffing services sector demonstrate a high level of job satisfaction. In particular, the varied activities and working with people are perceived as positive. Participants recommend the temporary staffing industry as an ideal entry into professional life for future HR managers. This is the central message of a survey [...].
The German Federal Employment Agency publishes interesting figures in its latest report on the temporary staffing industry. Once again, the bridging function into the labor market is highlighted as significant. Temporary staffing has been regulated by law in Germany since 1972. Since then, the Temporary Employment Act has been amended or revised several times. In the meantime, temporary staffing, which is also called employee leasing or temporary employment, has become a permanent fixture on [...]
The horse whisperers from the human resources services training program
Next round for our training event Fit For Success. With a horse farm as the location and the motto "grasp through experience", the fun was pre-programmed. There is never a dull moment at Franz & Wach, which is of course also interesting for trainees, who find excellent prospects with us. On the one hand, this crystallizes in the everyday working life of a growing and constantly changing [...]
Direct appointment booking (still) not very popular with applicants
2 Franz & Wach stores offer applicants to schedule interviews themselves. Several interview forms are offered. Franz & Wach sees itself as a full-service provider and service leader. Therefore, we are also very concerned with making the applicant experience (new German: Candidate Experience) as positive as possible, from the job advertisement to the signing of the employment contract. Prompt feedback on received application documents, [...]
The market has a lot to look forward to from Franz & Wach and Jobandtalent this year The goal has been set and the sails have been set together. At the kick-off meeting in the idyllic Rechenberg (Schwäbisch Hall district), managers from all over Germany came together to discuss measures with which we can attract even more employees this year [...]
After the Lock Down: Now there are already good opportunities for job seekers again! The Corona crisis has already cost many people their jobs. A great many are on short-time work - considerably more than during the last economic crisis in 2008/2009, for example. Nevertheless, there are also companies, and in some cases even entire industries, where business is now booming and staff are being hired [...]
In the meantime, one and a half years have passed since the AÜG reform (04/2017) came into force. Even then, many staffing service providers feared that the reform would also bring with it some difficult tasks that would have to be overcome. Many fears have now unfortunately come true. In Personalmagazin (Haufe), five personnel service providers have now drawn up an interim balance sheet, including Andreas [...]
The member of the Bundestag spoke with the managing director, branch management and a temporary employee at our Erfurt branch The member of the Bundestag Antje Tillmann (constituency Erfurt, Weimar, Grammetal) visited the Franz & Wach branch in Erfurt. In the discussion with managing director Andreas Nusko and branch manager Judith Schubbert, current topics of personnel services were discussed. Again and again members of the Bundestag visit one of our twenty branches. Managing Director [...]
New collective agreement makes temporary work even more attractive for employees The Verhandlungsgemeinschaft Zeitarbeit (VGZ) and the DGB's Tarifgemeinschaft Leiharbeit (Collective Bargaining Association for Temporary Work) have adopted a new collective agreement package consisting of a collective agreement on wages and salaries and a collective agreement on remuneration. The package provides for an annual increase in collectively agreed wages in temporary employment on April 1 in each case. In addition, the collective bargaining partners have agreed to increase wages in the tariff area East [...]
Persistently high demand in the automotive industry is driving recruitment activities in Hohenlohe and southern Thuringia. Typically, numerous assignments in employee leasing end at the end of the calendar year, because the high-consumption pre-Christmas period and thus the strong demand for personnel in trade, logistics and the industry dependent on it recedes. At the turn of the year 2017/2018, Franz & Wach noticed an opposite trend among its customers [...]
