Part-time work in the construction industry: how to make your company fit for the future

Why part-time work?

Physically strenuous work in all weather conditions and long working hours of over eight hours a day probably attracts very few people to the construction industry given the wide range of career alternatives available today. Social trends are moving in the direction of work-life balance, flexible working hours and shared employment for both partners when raising children. Young people in particular want to spend more time with their families, meet friends or pursue their hobbies. The increasing demand for part-time working models, particularly among the younger generation, is therefore an important issue with regard to more attractive employment conditions.

Part-time work: a solution for the future

Part-time jobs are widespread in the service sector, but still a rarity in the construction industry. This shows that there is great potential here to attract and retain new skilled labour through more attractive part-time offers. In view of the increasing shortage of skilled labour in the construction industry, part-time working models are therefore an important prerequisite for achieving a good work-life balance.

Part-time work made easy with Vanillaplan

Many construction companies face practical challenges when it comes to implementing individual working hours for their employees. Greater coordination effort and more complex planning are often the biggest obstacles here. But with the right tool, these challenges can be overcome: Vanillaplan offers a special part-time function that makes it possible to set an individual workload for each employee. This is automatically taken into account in resource and capacity planning. This enables efficient planning without additional effort - and makes part-time work possible.

How part-time work works in Vanillaplan

Intuitive recording in the absence plan: The part-time workload of each employee can be entered in the absence plan with just a few clicks and is automatically transferred to the planning views.

Select individual days of the week and times of day: You can select the days of the week on which part-time work is to be scheduled for each employee. To enable even more precise planning, you can also set times of day for which a part-time absence should be recorded.

Set longer periods for part-time work: You use a calendar to select the period for which the selected part-time workload should apply. This enables precise planning over several weeks and months.

Quick overview thanks to part-time icon: In Vanillaplan there is an extra icon for part-time work, which you can set as the reason for absence. This means that part-time absence can be recognised at a glance in all planning views.

Conclusion

Part-time work is an important step towards making the construction industry more attractive to young employees. With modern tools such as Vanillaplan, construction companies can master the challenges of individual working time organisation and implement part-time work easily and efficiently. This makes it easy to coordinate different workloads without any additional effort. Try Vanillaplan and make your construction company fit for the future!