Springer (employee)
Springers are mostly employees without a dedicated workplace (in terms of space or time), whose task it is to relieve other employees for a short time at regular or irregular intervals, to support them or for short-term special tasks (e.g. special sales stands in retail) and other personnel bottlenecks (through Illness, weakness or sudden increased workload).
Particularly in the case of synchronized production lines, the failure of just one employee endangers the process along the entire line. On the other hand, a certain amount of distribution time is unavoidable. Replacements must be made available for these times, some of which are unpredictable in their location. Springers are usually particularly qualified employees because they have to master a large number of jobs. The jumper must not be confused with a workstation that can be provided , for example, during job rotation , where one of the system employees always takes his due recovery time .
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