Talent Acquisition
Hire in days, not weeks. Pubs' median time-to-hire is 10 days — top operators do it in under 7, before strong candidates accept elsewhere.
Workforce Management + On-the-Ground Labour Consultancy, Built for Pubs
labour hours paid over schedule, every single week
new hires gone before day 90 — all cost, no return
saved per site, per week — within weeks of starting
Source: The Harri Pub Report · Q1 2026 platform data
From April 2026, every hour matters more. Precision — not lower wages — is the lever.
New National Living Wage — and the 18–20 rate up 8.5% to £10.85.
added to hospitality's wage bill this year, plus NI and rates rises.
average hospitality staff turnover — vs 34% across the UK economy.
pub schedule accuracy fell faster than any other concept last year.
Labour is your biggest controllable cost. Most pubs are absorbing 8–10% more hours than they schedule — the cost of a 61st site on a 60-site estate.
The Harri Pub Report Q1 2026 · UKHospitality · CIPD 2026
Everything a pub needs to hire, schedule, manage and pay its people — radically simplified.
Hire in days, not weeks. Pubs' median time-to-hire is 10 days — top operators do it in under 7, before strong candidates accept elsewhere.
Demand-based forecasting and scheduling. Automated forecasts with simple manual override, Guided Hours, and rotas built from your own templates — up to 98% forecast accuracy.
Digital onboarding, right-to-work and compliance handled. New starters are day-one ready — clear schedule, correct first pay run.
Fully managed end-to-end: starters, leavers, HMRC submissions and an accountancy pack. A dedicated payroll specialist, not a ticket queue.
Start where it pays fastest: WFM + Labour Consultancy as one package. The other pillars click in whenever you're ready.
The software finds the opportunity. People who have run pubs linking Tech to Team - so the system pays the business.
Every publican meets their consultant before go-live. Context, credibility, zero cold starts.
On-site, watching a live service. A structured 9-metric labour conversation — not an audit.
Findings shared with your ops manager within 48 hours. Constructive, data-led, relationship intact.
Return visits, training and calibration. Progress tracked visit-on-visit from a growing report library.
Not from IT. Not from head office. Every visit produces a site report — and every report builds your estate picture.
Measured across 5,579 UK pubs — the gap between average and top-quartile operators.
saved per site per week from clock-in discipline alone — typically 30 unplanned hours stopped
top-quartile forecast error vs the rest — worth tens of thousands per site, per year
the annual cost of turnover on a single 20-person site — top operators cut it in half
90-day retention for top performers, vs under 60% at the bottom — fewer holes to backfill
of weekly rota-building time handed back to managers — 3.7 hours back on the floor
more revenue per labour hour where schedules are trusted and published early
Source: The Harri Pub Report · Q1 2026 platform data, 5,579 UK pub locations
A 30-minute benchmarking call. Your numbers against 5,579 UK pubs. No obligation.
Your estate vs the top quartile
One pub, one live service, one report
You'll know the size of the prize before you commit