Nineteen people on the floor in seventeen hours
An urgent project raised at the end of the day. In the morning two teams were standing on the floor — one for unloading, one for co-packing.
Wrocław · recurring cooperation since autumn 2025
The situation
This client does not keep a permanent crew and does not want to pay for one all year round. They work in waves: a container arrives, a shipment has to be made ready, a stocktake comes up. They can raise a request for the next day — and then they need one answer: yes or no. Because that answer decides whether the warehouse starts in the morning or stands still.
How it went
A request at the end of the day
A short, urgent project: 19 people for the next morning. Not one profile but two — and that was the harder part of the task, harder than the headcount itself.
Two teams, two different trades
Men for unloading containers: physical work, at the pace set by the delivery schedule. Women — most of the team — for value-added services: labelling, assembling sets, repacking and checking goods before dispatch. That is the part where the product gains value before it reaches the end customer. We recruited for both profiles in parallel, because “warehouse worker” is not one single job.
Seventeen hours
That is how long it took from the request to the moment the full crew was standing on the floor. In that time: selecting people for two different scopes, confirming every single person individually, commutes, paperwork and the list handed over to the client before the start.
And the same at every wave
Container unloading: request at 10:44, staffing confirmed at 14:09, work from the next morning. A Saturday stocktake: 10 people for one day, confirmed 48 minutes after the email. A week of co-packing: request at 10:02, and by 12:15 the assignment was up and running.
What came out of it
- You pay for the hours actually worked — not for a declared headcount.
- We check the hour records on our side. If there is a discrepancy against the attendance list, we report it ourselves, before it reaches the invoice.
- Between waves you pay nothing. You come back when you have a project — not because you signed up for a volume.
Honestly about the context: This is a record of specific assignments at one client: work that requires no formal licences, a site with good public transport links, and in the later waves partly people who already knew the place. We do not sell this as a guaranteed response time — for roles that require licences, UDT-certified forklift operators for example, we talk in days, and we say so in the first conversation.
The figures and sequences above come from our correspondence with clients and from our project records. We do not give company names — we are bound by confidentiality clauses, and we publish full named stories only with the client’s written consent. Would you like to verify any of these sequences? We will ask the client for a reference call with you.