An unusually warm winter left streets overstaffed on temporary laborers. What change should HR make to the next-cycle seasonal plan?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Last year's everybody-starts-October-1 plan paid people to lean on shovels in a winter that never showed up. Next cycle, let the weather—not the calendar—turn the crew on. Triggers beat a fixed start date when snow is a maybe.
Full Explanation
Seasonal workforce plans can be trigger-based, using weather, storm-count, or temperature thresholds to stage onboarding rather than a single calendar date for the entire temp workforce. Calendar-only starts overstaff mild seasons and still fail extreme ones if trigger volume was never modeled. Trigger design preserves the ability to surge without locking a full seasonal complement to an arbitrary date.