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Turnover is highest in the Jun Quarter

Statistics NZ released there latest employer-employee data last week. He are some interesting numbers I have discovered:

Staff Turnover
The transport industry had a 14.4% turnover for the year to March. This is down slightly on the same time last year which is 15.5%. For the wholesale trade (which includes many distribution centres) turnover is 13.3%

Looking at the stats it is interesting to see that the June Quarter is actually the highest turnover period for the supply chain industry and historically rises to around 17% for transport and 15% for wholesale. Time to keep a close eye on the your staff.

Number of workers
The other fact I found interesting was that since Mar 2002 (when agoge launched) work numbers in this transport category have increased by 15% from 61,000 to 71,000 people.

Workers in the wholesale industry have increased 14% from 96,000 to 110,000.

All in all a growth industry! While it would be nice to reduce the staff turnover I suspect that this will continue to rise. People are no longer committed to long term employment and will move jobs more frequently than ever.

Being 'Green' can pay dividends

The size and scale of Wal-Mart continues to blow my mind. Check out this news snippet as they seek to cut packaging costs.

Wal-Mart plans to cut packaging 5%. The initiative is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 667,000 tonnes, equal to taking 213,000 trucks off the road annually and save 67m US gallons of diesel. The 5% packaging cuts will also generate US$ 3.4 billion in savings for Wal-Mart.

Think about it, they will take a fleet of trucks larger than size of NZ's entire transport industry off the road. Given however that a huge proportion of these trucks will be in places like China. I am sure they will be deployed somewhere else.

Being green can save significant dollars, particularly if you are the size of Wal-Mart!