One way warehouses are reducing Costs is by using less hourly workers and more piecework workers

For certain jobs hourly workers may perform the best, in the warehouse these jobs would include:

• Workers that need to wait for drivers
• Workers that needs to wait for orders
• Workers that need to wait for clients

So typically hourly workers perform best when a warehouse needs workers to WAIT.

On the other hand Piecework workers are best suited for:

• Quick container turnaround
• time sensitive loads and unloads
• Time sensitive pallet rebuilds
• Quick Shifted Load fixes

Typically Piecework workers are best suited for jobs that need to completed quickly as pieceworker workers are paid per unit instead of per hour, so they have the incentive to get the job done quicker.