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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1214662" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>Upon further research, <strong>the 8% increase in volume UPS is forecasting between Thanksgiving & Christmas has been attributed toward the shortened holiday</strong>; had the Holiday season remained four weeks, volume would be nearly stagnant. In other words, the total volume in November & December will be up a percent or two. </p><p></p><p>I outlined a fair assessment of the situation in my previous posting. You have to remember that while the company isn't increasing its Holiday hiring, there's a significant number of more people on the payroll this year vs. last's, far outpacing that of the volume. For example, historically in my region, in April-May, UPS would hire seasonally for the summer rush; come October, they'd do so again for the Holiday rush. UPS finally realized that it was losing good employees and spending millions of dollars needlessly... so for the first time in more than 10 years, every single person hired during the spring/summer was a permanent hire - with higher standards to meet during their evaluation period. They've kept them working by offered scheduled time off to senior employees, as well as completing compliance training in Sep./Oct. rather than Jan. Bottom line is that our Preload will employee the same number of workers in 2013 as 2012, just less of them tagged as temporary, seasonal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1214662, member: 43436"] Upon further research, [B]the 8% increase in volume UPS is forecasting between Thanksgiving & Christmas has been attributed toward the shortened holiday[/B]; had the Holiday season remained four weeks, volume would be nearly stagnant. In other words, the total volume in November & December will be up a percent or two. I outlined a fair assessment of the situation in my previous posting. You have to remember that while the company isn't increasing its Holiday hiring, there's a significant number of more people on the payroll this year vs. last's, far outpacing that of the volume. For example, historically in my region, in April-May, UPS would hire seasonally for the summer rush; come October, they'd do so again for the Holiday rush. UPS finally realized that it was losing good employees and spending millions of dollars needlessly... so for the first time in more than 10 years, every single person hired during the spring/summer was a permanent hire - with higher standards to meet during their evaluation period. They've kept them working by offered scheduled time off to senior employees, as well as completing compliance training in Sep./Oct. rather than Jan. Bottom line is that our Preload will employee the same number of workers in 2013 as 2012, just less of them tagged as temporary, seasonal. [/QUOTE]
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