Barclay Grayson is an established presence in the Portland real estate industry who oversees diverse property development and management activities. Active in the Portland professional community, Barclay Grayson is an attendee of Meet the Money, which brings together hotel financing and investment executives as well as follows leading trends in his industry.

A recent article in Hotel News Now brought focus to pathways for optimal employee utilization within a hospitality industry on pause. As mandated lockdowns have cause hotels worldwide to shutter, lost revenues are balanced with opportunities to streamline and improve operations.

Within a near-term recovery scenario of between three to six months, operators and owners must carefully weigh costs associated with redundancies, in retaining idle workers, and future costs associated with training and recruiting new workers. With employee goodwill, another factor, maintaining workers on board can make sense, particularly in situations where state or federal aid provides an anchor.

For savvy business operators, a situation of shutdown presents a chance to evaluate staffing strategies. When business reopens, cross-training, clustering, flexible models, and outsourcing may be employed as ways of optimizing operations and this can present long term benefits.