The Hidden Line Item: What the Data Says About Absence, Overtime, and the Real Cost of Uncertainty on the Manufacturing Floor

Every plant has a number nobody's tracking closely enough: what unplanned absence and last-minute overtime actually cost, per shift, per year. It's not a training problem or a morale problem, it's a line item, and it's bigger than most finance and ops teams realize. Devin Frosheiser, Director of Industry Strategy & Community at TeamSense and host of the Talk Real Shift podcast, walks through what the data says about the true cost of workforce unpredictability, including the involuntary turnover hiding inside attendance policies themselves, and what manufacturers are doing to close the gap between what they're budgeting for and what they're actually losing.