Rotating staff throughout a business

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I am a regular patron at a local retail grocery business, meaning that I have become familiarized with most of the staff members and their respective workstations. It happens that this business has the policy of rotating members of staff frequently such that employees do not work at a specific work station or perform a particular job continuously.

Why do you think this business has adopted such policy for rotating employees across the various work stations?
 
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Any kind of business that offers 24-hour service without defaulting is always making use of rotating of their staff in order to be able to keep the business in place actively.
 

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There are many businesses that have to run around the clock and this is why they tend to rotate the shifts of staff very often and this is a very common thing in such kind of places.
 

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Most times they do this to prevent the staffs from being too familiar with their surroundings. They believe when a staff becomes too familiar, it could lead to them trying to cheat the company.
 

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It's the best to rotate the workers so that each of them can familiarise the products as such can answer customer query without passing the answer to others that may discourage the customers. A business owner like this has a very good planning techniques.
 

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It is good to rotate staff so that you can see who might be good somewhere but he or she is not utilized there. It is also an anti fraud measure because staff would not be too comfortable to know the loopholes in any department.
 

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For businesses operating on a 24 hour basis, it is necessary to rotate staff working on different schedules. Also, there are companies who rotate staff to work for different departments. This enables the staff to get familiar with jobs at various functions. This is good exposure and training for the staff.
 

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This can be about check and monitoring. A company might not want a staff to be too comfortable in a work role or position so they bring in different people all the time
 

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Well sometimes it is good to have such a policy in your business because it helps in figuring out who and who is less productive in the company or organisation.
 

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This is another good way to make workers be more versatile as they can perform different functions. if you rotate a person at different jobs you are teaching such a person how to be skilled
 

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I know of a man that owns an agency banking business with like 4 branches. One staff doesn't stay in a particular branch for straight one week without leaving to another branch to stay at least a day. I think rotating your staff helps the other sectors or branches to grow.
 

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The purpose of rotating employees at work is to prevent fraud, avoid boredom, and so that all employees feel how to work in someone else's position. Example: If a company operates 24 hours a day, with a rotational shift system, justice will be realized for all workers.
 

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It really helps a business that does this to cope with the sudden resignation of a staff. That's because other staff have had experience in that department to provide a cover before someone else is hired.
 
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