More Than Staffing,
We're Productivity Experts

As a trailblazer in engineered performance models, Staffmark has developed cost-effective programs to improve the financial results for some of the largest manufacturing and distribution companies in the country. Our cost-per-unit (CPU) and Managed Incentive models drive labor efficiencies and increased capacities in a work cell and/or operation, in addition to providing incentive pay to improve performance and tenure of workers.

Start focusing on your customers while we micromanage the daily labor needs and performance of the work cell/operation with the only national staffing firm with both an Onsite staffing solution combined with performance management models.

Let's Talk!

Find out how we can help your organization.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

More Than Staffing,
We're Productivity Experts

As a trailblazer in engineered performance models, Staffmark has developed cost-effective programs to improve the financial results for some of the largest manufacturing and distribution companies in the country. Our cost-per-unit (CPU) and Managed Incentive models drive labor efficiencies and increased capacities in a work cell and/or operation, in addition to providing incentive pay to improve performance and tenure of workers.

Start focusing on your customers while we micromanage the daily labor needs and performance of the work cell/operation with the only national staffing firm with both an Onsite staffing solution combined with performance management models.

Let's Talk!

Find out how we can help your organization.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Performance Management Models
vs. Hourly Staffing

Most organizations are familiar with the traditional hourly staffing model. Here’s how our performance management models are different:

Hourly Staffing Model
  • Customer billed by hours worked
  • Variable labor costs
  • Customer assumes OSHA reporting for temporary employees
  • Customer manages productivity and quality
  • Customer responsible for training costs

Customer 100% accountable for labor cost

Managed Incentive Model
  • Customer billed a tiered hourly pay/bill rate aligned with Staffmark performance
  • Workers participate financially in productivity gains, driving improved work behaviors, retention, and engagement

Customer 100% accountable for labor cost but benefits from performance efficiencies.

Cost-Per-Unit Model
  • Customer billed per unit produced or moved
  • Fixed labor costs
  • Staffmark accountable for productivity and quality
  • Staffmark responsible for training costs
  • Staffmark assumes OSHA reporting for temporary employees

Staffmark 100% accountable for labor cost

Performance Management Models
vs. Hourly Staffing

Most organizations are familiar with the traditional hourly staffing model. Here’s how our performance management models are different:

Hourly Staffing Model
  • Customer billed by hours worked
  • Variable labor costs
  • Customer assumes OSHA reporting for temporary employees
  • Customer manages productivity and quality
  • Customer responsible for training costs

Customer 100% accountable for labor cost

Managed Incentive Model
  • Customer billed a tiered hourly pay/bill rate aligned with Staffmark performance
  • Workers participate financially in productivity gains, driving improved work behaviors, retention, and engagement

Customer 100% accountable for labor cost but benefits from performance efficiencies.

Cost-Per-Unit Model
  • Customer billed per unit produced or moved
  • Fixed labor costs
  • Staffmark accountable for productivity and quality
  • Staffmark responsible for training costs
  • Staffmark assumes OSHA reporting for temporary employees

Staffmark 100% accountable for labor cost

Reduce Operating Expenses by Up to 25%

Our results-driven approach offers significant financial and operational benefits: 

Focus on What Matters Most

Business leaders can focus more on their core business by outsourcing portions of the work environment, gaining benefits such as reduced outsourcing costs, travel costs, time spent on non-core functions, and more time spent on strategic initiatives that matter.

Improve Employee Retention

Foster a rewarding work environment. Our performance-based solution motivates employees and improves retention by an average of 2X higher than hourly staffing models. Employees typically earn 15%-25% on top of their base wages - the harder they work, the more they earn!

Lower Labor Costs

Invest in results, not hours. By shifting to a performance-based model, you simplify budgeting and cut operating costs by 10-25%.

Boost Efficiency

Leverage our expertise in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 5S to streamline your operations and boost productivity by 15-30%, enhancing quality and accuracy.

Reduce Operating Expenses by Up to 25%

Our results-driven approach offers significant financial and operational benefits: 

Focus on What Matters Most

Business leaders can focus more on their core business by outsourcing portions of the work environment, gaining benefits such as reduced outsourcing costs, travel costs, time spent on non-core functions, and more time spent on strategic initiatives that matter.

Improve Employee Retention

Foster a rewarding work environment. Our performance-based solution motivates employees and improves retention by an average of 2X higher than hourly staffing models. Employees typically earn 15%-25% on top of their base wages - the harder they work, the more they earn!

Lower Labor Costs

Invest in results, not hours. By shifting to a performance-based model, you simplify budgeting and cut operating costs by 10-25%.

Boost Efficiency

Leverage our expertise in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 5S to streamline your operations and boost productivity by 15-30%, enhancing quality and accuracy.

4 Steps to an

Optimized Performance Management Program

A well-designed performance management program can be an effective tool to motivate and engage employees and create better business outcomes. Here’s a breakdown of how we build a custom program for our partners:

Interested in seeing how performance management models can transform your organization? 

Step 1:
Scope + Opportunity ​

  • Conduct an initial concept meeting to discuss the operation and your challenges
  • Interview and shadow your team to understand your business
  • Identify jobs and departments that we can impact
  • Determine applications

Step 2:
Data Analysis

  • Identify production standards
  • Collect historical data and trend analysis
  • Determine how much time and money is spent to produce a unit

Step 3:
Onsite Engineering Assessment

  • Understand current productivity, capacity, and potential gains
  • Gather information needed to develop a fixed-cost labor solution

Step 4:
Validation & Solution Review

  • Propose plan to eliminate variable labor costs and control labor expenses, increase productivity, and eliminate the burdens associated with turnover, training, and other HR Issues
  • Implement plan

4 Steps to an

Optimized Performance Management Program

A well-designed performance management program can be an effective tool to motivate and engage employees and create better business outcomes. Here’s a breakdown of how we build a custom program for our partners:

Interested in seeing how performance management models can transform your organization? 

Step 1:
Scope + Opportunity ​

  • Conduct an initial concept meeting to discuss the operation and your challenges
  • Interview and shadow your team to understand your business
  • Identify jobs and departments that we can impact
  • Determine applications

Step 2:
Data Analysis

  • Identify production standards
  • Collect historical data and trend analysis
  • Determine how much time and money is spent to produce a unit

Step 3:
Onsite Engineering Assessment

  • Understand current productivity, capacity, and potential gains
  • Gather information needed to develop a fixed-cost labor solution

Step 4:
Validation & Solution Review

  • Propose plan to eliminate variable labor costs and control labor expenses, increase productivity, and eliminate the burdens associated with turnover, training, and other HR Issues
  • Implement plan

Fixed Cost Per Unit Program Saves Client $145K annually

A leading cosmetic manufacturer relies on staffing labor to support its manual retail packaging operations, requiring a headcount exceeding 100 workers daily to maintain production efficiency. After engaging Staffmark, our engineering team conducted an assessment that included reviewing benchmarks, workflow, and costs. Based on the assessment, Staffmark presented an insourced model to manage the operation within the customer’s facility on a cost per unit basis, where the customer only pays for work performed vs. hours of employees.

annual savings
compared to a staffing model based on a pay and bill rate
$ 0 K
production
to plan
0 %
higher retention rate
of CPU teams vs. hourly workers
0 %

Fixed Cost Per Unit Program Saves Client $145K annually

A leading cosmetic manufacturer relies on staffing labor to support its manual retail packaging operations, requiring a headcount exceeding 100 workers daily to maintain production efficiency. After engaging Staffmark, our engineering team conducted an assessment that included reviewing benchmarks, workflow, and costs. Based on the assessment, Staffmark presented an insourced model to manage the operation within the customer’s facility on a cost per unit basis, where the customer only pays for work performed vs. hours of employees.

annual savings
compared to a staffing model based on a pay and bill rate
$ 0 K
production to plan
0 %
higher retention rate
of CPU teams vs. hourly workers
0 %

Performance Management FAQs

What is Cost-Per-Unit?

It is a model where instead of billing for the labor hours worked, Staffmark bills by the unit produced. With this program, our partners achieve cost containment which can be used to accurately budget labor costs and to price out additional business opportunities. As we identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities, the impact and return on investment are easily measured and can be reflected in potential reductions in the cost-per-unit bill rates.

It is an hourly staffing alternative that uses a tiered pay/bill rate where qualified employees can earn incentives based on their performance to defined standards for a work cell/operation. Cost reductions from increased performance are shared with the employees as incentive pay and with the customer as their labor costs per unit is reduced. Leadership can also be supplied to micromanage the work cell/operation for our partners and help develop and validate production standards where needed.
The credentials of our team are second to none and we are the only national staffing firm with a staff of industrial engineers to build these models. Our team has extensive experience in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 5S, with several members who are PMP and GSD certified.

High-touch work environments are an ideal candidate for our performance management models, such as:

  • Kitting or hand work
  • Packaging
  • Pallet builds and assembly
  • Display builds
  • Case labeling
  • Sub assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Returns processing
  • Picking operations
  • Manual unload/load

Your goals are our goals. We partner with you to create an optimal, efficient operation while addressing:

  • Production efficiencies
  • Quality of employees
  • Turnover
  • Employee productivity
  • Labor costs
  • Training costs
  • Temporary employee management
  • Vendor accountability

Performance Management FAQs

What is Cost-Per-Unit?

It is a model where instead of billing for the labor hours worked, Staffmark bills by the unit produced. With this program, our partners achieve cost containment which can be used to accurately budget labor costs and to price out additional business opportunities. As we identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities, the impact and return on investment are easily measured and can be reflected in potential reductions in the cost-per-unit bill rates.

It is an hourly staffing alternative that uses a tiered pay/bill rate where qualified employees can earn incentives based on their performance to defined standards for a work cell/operation. Cost reductions from increased performance are shared with the employees as incentive pay and with the customer as their labor costs per unit is reduced. Leadership can also be supplied to micromanage the work cell/operation for our partners and help develop and validate production standards where needed.
The credentials of our team are second to none and we are the only national staffing firm with a staff of industrial engineers to build these models. Our team has extensive experience in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 5S, with several members who are PMP and GSD certified.

High-touch work environments are an ideal candidate for our performance management models, such as:

  • Kitting or hand work
  • Packaging
  • Pallet builds and assembly
  • Display builds
  • Case labeling
  • Sub assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Returns processing
  • Picking operations
  • Manual unload/load

Your goals are our goals. We partner with you to create an optimal, efficient operation while addressing:

  • Production efficiencies
  • Quality of employees
  • Turnover
  • Employee productivity
  • Labor costs
  • Training costs
  • Temporary employee management
  • Vendor accountability

Hear from a Few of our

Our Customers

– Justin L.
Read More
“Staffmark has invested a significant amount of time in building a great partnership with us. A pay for performance model helps to accurately pay for the work that is getting completed. Over time this makes both Staffmark and the customer more efficient and profitable.”
– Rudy R.
Read More
“The Staffmark team has not changed in several years, and it is a benefit to have partners that know our business so intimately.”
– Diego Z.
Read More
“I really appreciate how friendly the team is and how approachable they are. It's easy for me to reach out to them for my staffing solutions. It's remarkable how accessible they have made themselves, even after hours. The team provides quality and quick responses to our needs, and they really go the extra mile for you until your needs are fulfilled!”

Hear from a Few of our

Our Customers

– Justin L.
Read More
“Staffmark has invested a significant amount of time in building a great partnership with us. A pay for performance model helps to accurately pay for the work that is getting completed. Over time this makes both Staffmark and the customer more efficient and profitable.”
– Rudy R.
Read More
“The Staffmark team has not changed in several years, and it is a benefit to have partners that know our business so intimately.”
– Diego Z.
Read More
“I really appreciate how friendly the team is and how approachable they are. It's easy for me to reach out to them for my staffing solutions. It's remarkable how accessible they have made themselves, even after hours. The team provides quality and quick responses to our needs, and they really go the extra mile for you until your needs are fulfilled!”

Ready for a Performance Boost?

Discover how our tailored solutions can streamline your operations and significantly improve employee retention.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Ready for a Performance Boost?

Discover how our tailored solutions can streamline your operations and significantly improve employee retention.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

This site uses cookies

This site uses cookies to analyze traffic and to optimize your experience.

This site uses cookies

This site uses cookies to analyze traffic and to optimize your experience.