Ron Thurston on how to turn staff shortages into an opportunity
Retailers facing challenges including labour shortages and intense hiring competition should look to invest in the talent they already have, says Ron Thurston, author of ‘Retail Pride ...
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Tendam, cambio y corto
El grupo de distribución de moda, dueño de cadenas como Cortefiel o SlowLove, ha llegado a un acuerdo con la plataforma Yoobic para mejorar la experiencia del cliente final a través de una app que facilita la comunicación con el equipo de primera línea....
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Survey: digital workplace tech helps retail teams to cut costs, drive growth
According to a major international survey conducted by Coresight Research on behalf of YOOBIC, the digital workplace pioneer, retailers and restaurateurs increasingly view digital workplace tools as the solution to widespread labor shortages and logistical disruption....
Read More > Tendam partners with YOOBIC to enhance employee engagement and streamline in-store operations
Tendam worked with YOOBIC to centralize task management, whilst delivering both an improved employee experience, via renewed communication and operations, and an enhanced customer experience in-store, all on one platform....
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YOOBIC recognized in leading analyst’s report on retail associate enablement
YOOBIC, the all-in-one digital workplace for frontline teams, today announced its inclusion in the Forrester Now Tech: Retail Associate Enablement, Q3 2021 report....
Read More > Yoobic recognized in leading analyst’s report on retail associate enablement
YOOBIC, the all-in-one digital workplace for frontline teams, today announced its inclusion in the Forrester Now Tech: Retail Associate Enablement, Q3 2021 report. ...
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Digital employee experience crucial to rebuilding UK’s frontline workforce post-lockdown
As the UK’s employers struggle with severe staff shortages, as the country reopens from lockdown, delivering a great digital employee experience is key to attracting and retaining a frontline workforce, according to the latest report from digital workplace innovator, YOOBIC....
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Spanish retailer Desigual partners with Yoobic for digital growth
Spanish retailer Desigual, has increased employee engagement and streamlined its operational efficiencies with Yoobic, the digital workplace solution. Desigual recognised the need to modernise and streamline communications and visual merchandising processes and compliance across its store network and, accordingly, deployed the Yoobic mobile-first platform....
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3 ways to make retail teams proud of their work
Despite store reopenings, the retail sector actually shed 28,000 jobs in August, in part because hundreds of thousands of workers are now seeking jobs in other industries....
Read More > Desigual powers digital transformation of operations and customer experience in partnership with YOOBIC
Spanish fashion retailer, Desigual, has increased employee engagement and streamlined operational efficiencies in partnership with YOOBIC, the digital workplace solution for frontline teams....
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How Augmented Retail Workers Can Unlock Value In Your Business Post-Pandemic
As we look at the post-pandemic world, businesses are using digital tech to level up deskless operations, foster agility and resilience and create new opportunities for communication and collaboration. That’s especially important in the retail and hospitality space, as whole industries have been reshaped by the pandemic-driven surge in online ordering. ...
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How UNTUCKit Scales Workforce Empowerment While Ensuring Chainwide Consistency
Workforce engagement and empowerment have come to the forefront, especially as more retailers struggle to build up their store headcounts. Both retailers and their customers now expect associates to do more, do it better and accomplish it more quickly — but the reality is that they’re not always equipped to do so....
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How to show your frontline teams you’ve got their back
Deskless teams account for a huge amount of the human capital in our organizations. Talent managers must notice, nurture and track that potential to get the most out of these vital employees....
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The Kooples deploys Yoobic digital workplace solution
French fashion retailer, The Kooples, says that it has increased employee engagement, utilising frontline staff expertise to inform product design, and exceeded compliance and customer satisfaction targets in partnership with Yoobic....
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Untuckit combines employee communications, task management in single app
Known for its signature untucked shirts, the apparel brand has selected digital workplace platform Yoobic to optimize operations and streamline employee training across its brick-and-mortar stores....
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The Kooples fashions exceptional employee engagement and measures improvements in compliance and customer experience in partnership with YOOBIC
French fashion retailer, The Kooples, has increased employee engagement, utilising frontline staff expertise to inform product design, and exceeded compliance and customer satisfaction targets in partnership with YOOBIC, the digital workplace solution for frontline teams....
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UNTUCKit Selects YOOBIC Digital Workplace to Power Store Operations and Associate Training
Scaling operations back up in the post-pandemic environment requires efficiency, attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering compelling customer experiences. To achieve that, UNTUCKit is using YOOBIC’s digital workplace solution as a single point of truth for store associates...
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UNTUCKit Selects YOOBIC Digital Workplace to Power Store Operations and Associate Training
UNTUCKit, the fast-growing apparel brand known for its signature untucked shirts, has selected digital workplace platform YOOBIC to optimize operations and streamline employee training across its 80+ brick and mortar stores. ...
Read More > YOOBIC Raises $50M Series C to Transform Workplace Experience for Frontline Employees
YOOBIC, the all-in-one digital workplace for frontline teams, today announced closing a $50M Series C funding round led by Highland Europe....
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YOOBIC raises $50M for its chat and communications app aimed at frontline and service workers
YOOBIC, which provides an app for frontline and service workers to manage tasks, communicate with each other and management, and also go through training, development and and other e-learning tasks, has picked up $50 million....
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Are Retailers Ready for the Return to In-Person Shopping?
To get back on track, retailers will have to bring digital innovations back into the brick-and-mortar world. Online retail is built upon digital connectivity, the use of data, and operational streamlining....
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747,000 UK job vacancies, with biggest demand in accommodation and food service
Delivering a great digital employee experience is key to recruiting and retaining the Millennial frontline workforce....
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Digital employee experience crucial to meeting Millennial workforce needs
With the biggest demand in accommodation and food service, frontline employers must address the specific digital and motivational needs of Millennial workers...
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Digital employee experience crucial to meeting Millennial workforce needs
Delivering a great digital employee experience is key to recruiting and retaining the Millennial frontline workforce...
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Where’s the Training, Frontline Workers Ask
According to a recent survey from technology company YOOBIC, lack of training is a top barrier to frontline workers' on-the-job success...
Read More > Athletico Taps YOOBIC’s Digital Workplace to Enable Growth Aspirations
With Athletico’s growth and market expansion aspirations, YOOBIC’s digital task management and communication solutions will help deliver consistent operational excellence...
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Closing the Digital Divide: Learning Solutions for Frontline Workers
Frontline workers are largely responsible for putting the company’s broader goals and values into action, they often lack the digital tools and solutions needed to do so...
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Leyland SDM boosts employee engagement and store efficiency with YOOBIC to support rapid business growth
Leyland SDM, the decorating and DIY specialist, has digitised in-store processes and colleague communication in partnership with YOOBIC,...
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Leyland SDM and YOOBIC Boost Employée Engagement And Store Efficiency
The rapidly scaling business, which has seen five new outlets open in the past two months, wanted to modernise and streamline communications across its network...
Read More > Leyland SDM boosts employee engagement and store efficiency with YOOBIC
Leyland SDM, the decorating and DIY specialist, has digitised in-store processes and colleague communication in partnership with YOOBIC...
Read More > Leyland SDM boosts employee engagement and store efficiency with YOOBIC to support rapid business growth
Leyland SDM, the decorating and DIY specialist, has digitised in-store processes and colleague communication in partnership with YOOBIC, the digital workplace solution for frontline teams...
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How to motivate employees to deliver the perfect customer experience
As retail and hospitality reopens, business will find it hard to deliver a perfect customer experience unless they respond to staff issues over a lack of ...
Read More > Hospitality Staff Say Sector Must Serve Up Greater Career Growth Opportunities And Training
As the UK hospitality industry prepares for its full reopening this month, the sector must focus on providing workers with greater career growth opportunities and...
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Growth Opportunities And Training For The Hospitality Industry Career
Original research of 1,000 frontline workers in YOOBIC’s latest ‘Frontline Employee Workplace Survey 2021’ report highlighted hospitality workers felt...
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It’s Time to Throw Your Frontline Teams a Digital Lifeline
The deskless workforce doesn’t have the luxury of working remotely, so even as the pandemic has raged on, our frontline teams have kept...
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HR Technology Highlights
Already trusted by more than 200 global brands, YOOBIC has seen a surge in demand for its mobile solutions during the COVID pandemic, as global enterprises have sought more resilient and efficient ways to...
Read More > YOOBIC Announces Executive Hires To Drive Continued Growth
YOOBIC, the all-in-one digital workplace for frontline teams, announced three new executive-level hires as it accelerates growth in over 80 countries worldwide, including...
Read More > YOOBIC Announces Executive Hires to Drive Continued Growth
With headcount growing to more than 200 employees located at offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, Paris, and Milan, YOOBIC is strengthening its leadership team by hiring...
Read More > Digital Training Gap: Just 14% Of Retail Workers Receive Training On Mobile Devices
As non-essential retail reopens, retail staff are facing a digital training gap, with store associates reporting a lack of digital training formats and infrequent learning...
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Just 14% of frontline retail workforce receive training on their mobile devices
With non-essential retail reopenned, retail staff are facing a digital training gap, with store associates reporting a lack of digital training formats...
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Three in four retail staff want mobile-based L&D
Almost three-quarters (74%) of frontline retail workers would welcome mobile-based learning opportunities, but only 14% currently receive training in this way...
Read More > Living On The Retail Frontline
As retail reopens, retailers will want to ensure that their staff get the training and support they need to deliver great customer experience whilst keeping them...
Read More > March footfall bodes well for 12 April reopening…
With the latest UK lockdown set to be lifted on Monday, footfall figures from March indicate that there is likely to be a strong retail bounceback...
Read More > Boots deploys YOOBIC’s task management solution
By digitising in-store processes, YOOBIC will help Boots to reduce workload for colleagues and ensure a consistent customer experience across its store network...
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Boots optimises store processes on Yoobic platform
K drugstore chain Boots, part of the Walgreens Boots Alliance, is digitising its store processes with the Yoobic task management solution....
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What Do Frontline Employees Want from Restaurants?
Digital workplace platform YOOBIC, which has aided Domino’s and BurgerFi in the past, conducted a study of 1,000 frontline employees...
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Boots UK preps Yoobic task management solution roll-out
Boots employees will be able to complete their tasks such as weekly checklists, safety logbooks and merchandising execution through it....
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YOOBIC’s task management solution in partnership with Boots
Designed specifically for frontline teams, Yoobic digitises in-store processes to help support task management, communication, and training...
Read More > BOOTS deploys YOOBIC’s Task Management solution
Boots, the UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer, has deployed the YOOBIC platform across their 2,500 retail stores...
Read More > REBUILDING THE ‘FORGOTTEN’ FRONTLINE: YOOBIC
As non-essential retail prepares to reopen, retail staff risk becoming a ‘forgotten frontline’, with store associates reporting a lack recognition and empowerment in their roles...
Read More > Store associates say lack of communication creates the biggest challenge at work
A third (32%) of store workers said they lacked recognition in their jobs while a quarter (24%) felt unempowered in their role...
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According to frontline employees, the lack of communication is a daily challenge
The YOOBIC poll showed retail frontline workers felt a lack of recognition of their roles, it was actually communication barriers that retail staff felt was the biggest challenge to their jobs...
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Lack of communication biggest problem for retail staff
71% of retail staff say communication, either with HQ or other colleagues, is their greatest challenge at work...
Read More > DESKLESS WORKFORCE SORELY UNDERSERVED BY LACK OF INVESTMENT IN NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Frontline workers aren’t being given the digital tools they need to succeed, leading to disengagement and reduced productivity, according to an international survey of frontline workers published today...
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Insider Q&A: Yassen Horanszky, Founder and Managing Partner of Luniko Consulting
Luniko Consulting experienced a record 2020 year, helping manufacturers undergo transformations to adopt tools be part of an Industry 4.0 economy....
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Digital workplaces prove key to unlocking engagement with the frontline workforce
The international survey of frontline workers published today by digital workplace innovator YOOBIC highlights 5 challenges that frontline employees are facing and how to fix them ...
Read More > Survey: Digital Workplace Key to Engagement for Frontline Teams
According to an international survey of frontline workers published by digital workplace innovator YOOBIC, frontline workers aren't being given...
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Digital workplaces prove key to unlocking frontline employee engagement
A smarter and more connected approach, using mobile devices and enterprise-grade apps, could be the key to achieving operational excellence according to the new international survey of frontline workers...
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Frontline workers aren’t being given the digital tools they need to succeed
Mobile and deskless workers now make up 80% of the global workforce, but for most of them their digital tools are not adapted to their work. But the international survey of frontiline workers conducted by YOOBIC offers...
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Survey: Digital Workplace Key to Engagement for Frontline Teams
Mobile devices boost productivity for deskless employees, YOOBIC study shows...
Read More > The Key To Engagement Your Frontline Teams : A Digital Workplace
A smarter and more connected approach, using mobile devices and enterprise-grade apps, could be the key to achieving operational excellence...
Read More > Survey: 46% manufacturing workers feel isolated
Mobile devices boost productivity for deskless employees, YOOBIC study shows...
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A Digital Workplace Is The Key to Engagement Your Frontline Teams
The YOOBIC survey, conducted in December 2020, interviewed 1,000 frontline workers from the UK, US and Canada, across industries including retail, hospitality, manufacturing, and construction....
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As Retailers Reopen, RetailNext Rolls Out ShopSafe Initiative
With consumer and worker safety in mind, RetailNext has formed a collaboration aimed at aiding retailers who are reopening stores with data-driven technology...
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BurgerFi Partners with YOOBIC to Deliver Forward-Looking Training and Employee Engagement to Fast Growing Concept
YOOBIC announced today that award-winning "better burger" concept, BurgerFi, has deployed the YOOBIC platform across their locations...
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Lacoste Is Giving Shoppers Real-Time Updates on Store Cleanings, Plus New Pickup Service
Lacoste is first to market offering real-time data around the multiple health and safety initiatives with tech company YOOBIC....
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Lacoste Reopens Stores Implementing New Guidelines
Lacoste is first to market offering real-time data around the multiple health and safety initiatives with tech company YOOBIC....
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YOOBIC and RetailNext Announce Strategic Partnership
Today at Euroshop, YOOBIC, the leading retail physical experience platform, announced a partnership with RetailNext, the market leader in IoT smart store analytics, to help brick-and-mortar retailers optimize shopper conversion......
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Adore Me talks challenges and wins with its store operations
Digital native lingerie brand Adore Me enhances store employee productivity and store conversion with interactive employee software YOOBIC......
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Halfords hails success of Yoobic powered iVisit app
Halfords has teamed with Yoobic to roll-out an app for use by area managers when visiting stores. Speaking yesterday at RetailEXPO, Louise O’Keeffe, Head of Retail Support......
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