Currently in my second week working nights in picking, and my trainer told me to start fast and it’ll make the rest of the night “easier” on my rate. At the start of our shift and at the end of our lunch break, we have a quick floor meeting and they tell us the units per hour rate we should be averaging. Today, for example, it was 73. I assume this is something they’re monitoring—but my question is, if the units per hour rate is fluctuating throughout the night/shift, which one are they looking at? Between clocking in to the time I took my lunch break, I hit 83 units per hour at one point. After lunch to my first break, the highest I hit was only 69 one hour and then 73 the next. Do they take the highest? Do they look at the average of the entire shift? I’m so confused about how they measure your productivity. Is it even about the picking rate at all, or is it about the total units you do the whole shift?
Any clarification would be helpful because my hiring group was nearly 100 people, so there wasn’t really an opportunity to ask questions before they threw us out onto the floor. Thanks!!