According to the
Associated Press,
Target plans to hire fewer seasonal workers for the 2013 holiday season, or 20% less than last year. In trying to be more efficient in its hiring practices, Target will only hire about 70,000 seasonal workers this year, compared to last year's 88,000. This move comes as the Minneapolis-based chain saw that its own permanent employees wanted to get first dibs on working extra hours for the holiday season.
Target said it also wants to respond more quickly to the peaks and valleys of customer traffic, which have become more pronounced for many stores as shoppers time their buying for when they believe they can get the best deals. "We're getting smarter in terms of anticipating how many resources we need when guests are really going to be shopping the hardest," said Jodee Kozlak, Target's executive vice president of human resources.
2 comments:
I was in Target today, and clearly some kind of customer service "push" was taking place. Several customer service people were asking if I could find something, one of them wanted to let me know about a new Target app called Cartwheel. (I just downloaded it, it looks pretty good.) Most embarrassing about that-the woman who showed me said "You're in here all the time, so you can really use this."
Who do they think they fooling? They aren't hiring as many this year because of Obamacare!
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