Improving harvest record keeping and efficiency

Pieceworker award rates remain in place, removing the link between worker earnings and productivity and increasing your need to track individual performance for management and compliance. Random audits of compliance have also increased, especially in horticulture, making this even more time-consuming and difficult to manage across a large workforce. On top of this, high demand for seasonal workers, rising minimum wages in Tasmania, and ongoing increases in input costs (e.g. fertiliser) continue to put pressure on margins and harvest capacity. 

Accurate record-keeping helps you meet regulations and manage individual picker performance. Additionally, investing in new technologies can help to address margin pressures by tracking costs or increasing worker productivity (e.g. robotic picking). By using technology to improve harvest efficiency, you can boost profitability, increase employee engagement, and enhance work-life balance. It's critical to understand both your ROI and your technological needs and risks when selecting a technology: these technologies create new opportunities for farms, but also increase risk on single points of failure if not managed well. 

Use a fit-for-purpose time and harvest management platform to accurately measure individual picker performance and provide effective incentives for high productivity. Maximise time spent picking to increase returns for both you and your pickers.