一些员工可能很难坚持。为什么？员工，尤其是千禧一代，想要更多的机会学习，成长和促进职业。实际上，工作发展是如此重要，以至于87% of millennialswant it.

好消息是,your employees may be able to get the development they want without changing companies. Cue: job rotation program.

什么是工作旋转？

Job rotation is a strategy where employees rotate between two or more jobs in the same business. Employees take on new tasks at a different job for a period of time before rotating back to their original position.

Generally, an employee’s pay remains the same. A rotation program doesn’t mean employees are promoted, although promotions do happen. Employees typically move laterally from job to job.

With a job rotation system, employees gain experience and skills by taking on new responsibilities. Rotations are meant to promote flexibility, employee engagement, and retention.

工作旋转优势和缺点

Whether you want to boost retention or encourage development, a workplace rotation program could help you take things up a notch.

Intrigued? Before implementing the system, weigh the job rotation pros and cons.

Advantages of job rotation

Many employers who choose to create a job rotation policy do so as an employee benefit. But, employees aren’t the only ones who reap the rotation program benefits.

考虑两名员工的工作旋转计划的这些好处and雇主。

1. Eliminates boredom

Thirty-six percent。盖洛普民意调查显示，这就是美国员工实际从事工作。

If that’s true for all workplaces, that means 64% of employees are: A) unenthusiastic, B) unsatisfied, C) have low morale, or D) all of the above.

是的。您想要的最后一件事是一支充满员工的团队，这些员工正在不参与方面进行动议，以帮助您发展业务。更不用说，招聘经理可以通过更好，更具挑战性的工作的承诺来吸引脱离员工。

Giving employees new responsibilities won’t solve all your problems. But, it could help employees become engaged and prevent boredom.

在大多数情况下，脱离接触是渐进的事情。通常，员工不会从周一的100％订婚到周二脱离的0％。通过每隔一段时间混合职责，工作旋转计划可能有助于防止逐渐下降到脱离接触领域。

2. Encourages development

Knowing how to do job ABC like the back of your hand is great. But, it can also be limiting. A job rotation strategy helps employees develop other skills they can use not only in other positions but in their main role, too.

开发可以：

• Make an employee feel more valuable
• Boost morale
• 增加参与度
• Improve knowledge

在鼓励他们发展的公司工作的员工可能不需要换工作。他们没有离开您的业务从事一份新工作来帮助员工发展，而是可以旋转工作。

3.Gives employees a break from strenuous job duties

如果员工的工作在24/7的身体上（甚至在精神上）筋疲力尽，那么疲劳和脱离接触可能会蔓延。

Industries that require heavy-duty labor use job rotation strategies. Overworked employees who are constantly doing manual labor benefit from getting a break. By rotating their jobs, you help offset the risk of fatigue and possibly injury.

For example, you could have a warehouse employee who lifts heavy packages for deliveries rotate to a job that handles the paperwork for shipping.

4. Helps you identify where employees work best

人们会令人惊讶。无论是隐藏的才能，技能还是知识，您可能都不知道有关员工的所有知识。这可能会伤害员工的订婚and你的事。

A job rotation strategy can point out an employee’s strengths and weaknesses. You might find that an employee is stronger in a different job at your business.

After all, you need to have all your employees in the right roles for business growth and efficiency.

5. Provides a backup plan if an employee leaves

Although employee turnover can be expensive (just calculate youremployee turnover rate要看看多么昂贵），它不必是毁灭性的。通过制定工作旋转计划，您有多个员工知道如何完成每项工作。

If an employee leaves, you won’t need to scramble to hire the first person you see. Instead, you have other employees capable of covering the separated employee’s tasks.

And if you do need to hire a replacement, you can take your time to find the right fit.

工作轮换的缺点

举起：并非所有企业都可以成功实施工作轮换。看看这些工作工作场所计划的缺点。

1.可能是昂贵且耗时的

When an employee takes on a new role, they don’t magically have their new responsibilities down pat. There’s a learning curve.

员工可能需要培训来完成新工作，这可能是昂贵的（我们正在谈论数千美元）和耗时（小时和小时）。根据人才发展协会, these are the averages for training employees:

• Cost: $1,252
• 时间: 33 hours

Although you may not need to spendquitethat much money and time on a lateral shift, you should still consider it.

2. Could end up with disgruntled employees

Some employees might not want to rotate jobs. An employee who is comfortable and successful in their current position may worry another employee would mess up their process.

You might have some employees who excel at their jobs and aren’t willing to learn new things unrelated to those jobs. And, you could see employees who are stressed out at the prospect of changing their jobs.

3.It won’t fix all your problems

Job rotation programs aren’t guaranteed to increase employee engagement, so don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Disengagement could be due to other factors.

Other reasons for disengagement include:

• 缺乏积极的强化
• 与公司文化断开连接
• 沟通和管理不佳

不要使用工作旋转计划来使员工首先达到问题的根源，以使员工开心。

4. Might not be feasible for some industries

对于某些行业和职位，工作轮换是不现实的。在高技能的职位中，员工需要多年的培训才能完成工作。

如果您想在您的业务中实施工作旋转计划，请确保可能。不要浪费努力，这些事情无法正常工作。

5. Your business could suffer

One of the most devastating disadvantages of job rotation is that your business could take a hit. Because employees are learning new skills, there could be some errors. Customers could become frustrated by confused employees who make mistakes. And if operations don’t run smoothly, your底线could suffer.

考虑工作轮换如何帮助您的业务。您不希望在此过程中进行缓慢的操作，困惑的员工和愤怒的客户。

Implementing a job rotation program

决定追求工作旋转系统？伟大的！对于成功的计划，您需要遵循以下最佳实践：

1. 设立目标
2. 创建准则
3. 分析它

1.设定目标

What is the point of having employees rotate jobs in your business? What do you hope to accomplish with your job rotation program?

Set and define job rotation goals. For example, your goals may include:

• Developing employee knowledge
• Giving employees more stake in the business
• 提高员工技能
• Preventing burnout

2.创建准则

您的程序是什么样的？通过详细的准则来放下谁，何时，何时，为什么，为什么以及如何制定程序。

Detail:

• 谁会旋转？
• 旋转的协议是什么（例如，员工启动，经理等）？
• Where will employees rotate to?
• When will they rotate?
• Why will employees rotate jobs?
• 您将如何使员工设置为新职位？

考虑将您的准则添加到您的员工手册so employees can reference them as needed.

3.分析它

怎么样了？您需要解决的程序中有任何纠结吗？一旦您的工作场所启动并运行，请确定是否有效。

分析程序来学习:

• How your employees are benefiting from it
• 您的业​​务如何从中受益

Consider asking employees for feedback (e.g., surveys) that ask for engagement, morale, satisfaction with the rotation, etc. Feedback can help you judge the effectiveness of the program from the employees’ perspectives.

This article has been updated from its original publication date of November 27, 2017.

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