As hospitality becomes increasingly competitive, CitizenM is continuing its proud history of innovation by partnering with Quinyx, making their employee's a priority.
Key features used
- Automated Scheduling
- Auto Assign
- Labor laws
Results
- According to research, happy employees are 20% more productive
- Engaged employees are also 6 times less absent and result in less turnover
- Quinyx's happy employee scheduling service has a 80% NPS
Why you should invest in employee happiness
“We’re set out everyday to create amazing guest experiences. And we truly believe that if we have happy employees, we will get happy guests” says Matthew Bell, director of hotel operations at CitizenM.
Employee happiness plays a key role in customer satisfaction, but satisfied employees are also less absent and more productive. So the question is: how does CitizenM make sure that their employees are happy?
One way the international hotel chain tries to bring more happiness into their workforce is by democratising their scheduling. Giving employees the opportunity to better plan their lives alongside their work, has been one of the main objectives in CitizenM scheduling. Having personal preferences and being able to swap shifts are important parts of a happiness-inducing scheduling process – and there’s more. Fairer schedules, more work and plenty of time to recuperate are other factors among many that have a great impact on an employee’s happiness.
“We’re set out everyday to create amazing guest experiences. And we truly believe that if we have happy employees, we will get happy guests.” says Matthew Bell, director of hotel operations at CitizenM. Employee happiness plays a key role in customer satisfaction, but satisfied employees are also less absent and more productive. So the question is: how does CitizenM make sure that their employees are happy?
One way the international hotel chain tries to bring more happiness into their workforce is by democratising their scheduling. Giving employees the opportunity to better plan their lives alongside their work, has been one of the main objectives in CitizenM scheduling. Having personal preferences and being able to swap shifts are important parts of a happiness-inducing scheduling process – and there’s more. Fairer schedules, more work and plenty of time to recuperate are other factors among many that have a great impact on an employee’s happiness.
Happy scheduling with algorithms
To be able to take all these factors into account and make the fairest schedules possible, CitizenM implemented Quinyx’s workforce optimisation services to automate their scheduling process. In essence, this means that rosters are now primarily made by algorithms that automatically choose who works when. This sounds less democratic than you might think. In fact, this service allows CitizenM to provide their employees a better and fairer distribution of morning vs night shifts, more consecutive days off and longer shifts. It gives employees more schedule security and more room to better plan their personal lives around work.
Acceptance and scale
The use of algorithm-driven scheduling started in April of 2019 at a handful of CitizenM locations. This quickly proved its worth as the schedules received great feedback from employees and planners. It did not only improve employee happiness and schedule acceptance, but rostering like this also ensured full compliance with local labour laws and regulations. A rostering process that normally would take 4 hours per week per location, is now reduced to just 15 minutes thanks to rostering automation. A small survey under employees even indicated a net promoter score of 80%, giving more reason to roll out further. Quinyx also proved its scaling capabilities as the solution rolled out to and was actively being used at 13 CitizenM locations across 5 countries in just a week and a half.
As Bell says: “The level of guest satisfaction and commercial success has really been a result of that level of employee happiness and engagement that CitizenM has”. And we of Quinyx are in return very happy to contribute to their workforce happiness.