The Holiday Conflict: The Clash Between Reunion and Delivery
The Spring Festival is the most important family reunion holiday in China. For factory workers, a year of hard work is for returning home early to reunite with family. For companies, the pressure to deliver orders before the holiday is imminent, requiring guaranteed production continuity. This conflict of needs triggers an annual pre-holiday labor-management tug-of-war. Companies want to retain staff to maintain production; employees want to return home for reunion. Even with various retention incentives, employees often feel torn between wanting to go home and fearing they will disrupt work, which affects their sense of belonging and makes it hard to guarantee production efficiency.
The Material Handling Department’s Acute Pressure
Material handling positions are labor-intensive with a very high proportion of non-local workers, who have the strongest desire to return home before the holiday. Many transport workers leave early to secure travel tickets, causing positions to become vacant ahead of time. Those who stay are often distracted and less efficient, leading to more mistakes. To retain people, companies are forced to continually increase incentives, raise overtime pay, and offer holiday bonuses, yet they still struggle to deter employees’ desire to leave. This often results in the awkward situation of “significant investment in benefits without corresponding production efficiency.” In more severe cases, some employees choose to resign temporarily to go home, resulting in low return rates after the holiday and creating greater pressure for resuming production.
Reeman AMR Robots: Enabling a Win-Win Outcome
The introduction of Reeman AMR transport robots breaks this conflict of needs, creating a win-win situation where “employees can reunite with peace of mind, and companies can maintain steady production.” Serving as a “steel handler,” it shoulders the pre-holiday material handling burden. One unit can replace several skilled workers, operating 24/7 without interruption, arriving on demand, and accurately and efficiently completing various transport tasks, completely eliminating dependence on manual labor. With robots as the backbone, companies no longer need to pressure handlers to stay. They can calmly arrange for employees to leave early for their reunions. This reduces spending on retention incentives while demonstrating the company’s humanistic care, strengthening employees’ sense of belonging and loyalty, and improving post-holiday return rates.
Demonstrating Corporate Warmth Through Technology
For employees, Reeman AMRs eliminate the dilemma between reunion and work. They can enjoy their holiday without anxiety over pre-holiday overtime or worrying about disrupting production. For companies, the robots reliably secure the pre-holiday handling process, ensuring efficient production line operation and on-time order delivery, without the distress of labor shortages. This model of using intelligent equipment to balance labor and management needs not only solves pre-holiday production and delivery challenges but also conveys corporate warmth. It allows manufacturing plants to protect their operational results at year’s end while uniting their teams, achieving sustainable development.
