High staff churn in H1 could be costing you peak season revenue
Staff churn has always been treated as an HR problem. Something to monitor, report on, and accept as part of life in hospitality. But what if it's actually a revenue problem?
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Fill 50% more shifts with your own employees.
Ensure shifts are covered even if you're understaffed.
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Why are people leaving Social Care, and where are they going?
We asked 250 Social Care leaders about their attitudes towards digitisation and their plans for the next 12 months...
Why are Hospitality workers leaving the industry, and what can you do to retain them?
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Staff can see relevant messages in one place.
Request post-shift feedback from staff.
Recognise staff contributions by sending them praise.
Identify staff at risk of churning.
How care organisations can embrace flexible working and thrive.
Maintain quality of care and reduce costs.
Maximise profitability through AI-powered forecasting & scheduling.
Elevate your operational efficiency and guest satisfaction.
Streamline operations across sites.
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Give staff greater visibility of shifts available to work, with a simple "shift claim" process to increase their income.
Improve employee engagement and retention with a seamless employee communication platform.
Happier staff provide greater customer experiences, which in turn drives return rates, revenues and recommendations.
Give staff greater visibility of shifts available to work, with a simple "shift claim" process to increase their income.
Improve employee engagement and retention with a seamless employee communication platform.
Happier staff provide greater customer experiences, which in turn drives return rates, revenues and recommendations.
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Staff churn has always been treated as an HR problem. Something to monitor, report on, and accept as part of life in hospitality. But what if it's actually a revenue problem?
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How PAUL UK is using Sona to simplify scheduling and operations
The impact on manager time and team communication
Why Sona supports consistency across a multi-site retail bakery model
Their experience rolling out and adopting the platform across stores
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| Amplitude | USA | Analytics |
| Anthropic | USA | AI tool |
| DBT | USA | Data warehousing and reporting processor |
| ElevenLabs | USA | AI voice agent provider |
| Fivetran | UK | Data warehousing and reporting processor |
| GitHub | USA | Code hosting |
| Google Analytics | EEA | Web analytics service |
| Google Cloud Platform | UK | App infrastructure |
| Google Workspaces | EEA | Office productivity and storage services |
| HubSpot | EEA | CRM |
| Linear | USA | Product management tool |
| Mandrill (Mailchimp) | USA | Email tool |
| Metabase | USA | Business intelligence and dashboard creation |
| Microsoft | EEA | Office productivity tools |
| N8N | EEA | Secure and AI-native workflow automation tool |
| New Relic Inc | EEA | Stack analytics solutions provider |
| OpenAI | USA | Automating business processes |
| Paygate | UK | BACS payments provider |
| Planhat | EEA | CRM tool |
| Sendgrid | USA | Email tool |
| Shape | UK | Payroll software provider |
| Slack | EEA | Messaging and comms |
| Stream Inc | EEA | Sona app functionality |
| Twilio | USA | SMS relay service |
| Typeform | EEA | Form creator |
| WizRocket (CleverTap) | EEA | App engagement and user retention |
| Zendesk | EEA | Messaging service for customer support |