Coople expands to Manchester from 12 March to meet rising demand for flexible work
The North West is experiencing increasing labour shortages, while businesses across the UK face critical regulatory changes, including new minimum wages and the increase in National Insurance contributions. Fast growing cities like Manchester have a high demand for flexible staffing solutions to address these challenges. Staffing platform, Coople, is expanding to Manchester starting 12th March to support local businesses during these turbulent times and enhance job opportunities for flexible workers in the area.
Coople, a leading staffing platform, enables companies to build pools of skilled hospitality, retail, logistics or call centre workers that can be deployed when they’re needed, delivering total flexibility, without compromising on quality, in the most cost-efficient way.
Coople’s team, led by CEO Hadi Moussa, front row right, are excited to expand to Manchester and begin supporting the businesses in the city and surrounding areas. Senior New Business Manager Sam Biggins, front row left, will be leading the expansion.
Sam Biggins, Senior New Business Manager at Coople, will be leading the expansion:
“I am delighted to be leading Coople’s expansion into Manchester. I come from the city myself and I’m excited to show local businesses how our innovative platform can give them full control over staffing, filling any open positions quickly and easily with North West talent."
Why Manchester?
As one of the UK's fastest growing and most liveable cities, Manchester's city centre economy has been predicted to be worth more than £ 6bn manually by 2025 and is attracting a lot of news business investment. At the same time, the city is plagued by staff shortages and high turnover, especially in the hospitality sector.
Hadi Moussa, CEO of Coople, comments:
“Our platform is designed to help businesses grow skilled teams in a flexible and cost-efficient way. We already helped thousands of clients to do this successfully and we see great potential in partnering with retail, hospitality, logistics and call centre businesses in Manchester at this critical time.”
What makes Coople different?
Coople’s platform enables clients to build their own pools of trusted flexible workers who know their business. Digital CVs and ratings make it easy to find the best candidates, who can then be added to favourite pools to be hired again and again. This approach gives clients full control over quality while building loyalty over time which minimises risk and overhead costs for hiring and training.
At the same time, it gives consistency to workers who become part of a team, feel valued and have great work experiences, all while keeping their schedule flexible. The Coople Jobs App helps the community of 'Cooplers' find flexible work that suits their availability and safeguards their workers' rights.
For businesses, this compliance is important as incoming regulatory changes, such as the increase in National Insurance contributions, require strict compliance. Coople directly employs all its workers, ensuring that minimum wage, holiday pay and all social charges are paid correctly.
Coople enables companies to fill shifts within hours and there is no minimum shift length, which allows clients to use their pools flexibly. With the cost per worker hour rising from April, ramping team sizes up or down quickly will become an increasingly important strategy for managing staff costs. Its unique approach allows businesses to do this without compromising staff quality.
Rufus Hood, General Manager UK at Coople, adds:
“Manchester is one of the fastest growing cities in the UK. With high demand across retail, hospitality, and logistics flexible staffing is not just convenient but essential for success. Our expansion will provide businesses with instant access to high-quality, pre-vetted workers, giving people more control and opportunity in their careers, and helping businesses accelerate that growth.
“With Coople, customers can build high-quality flexible teams while optimising their staffing costs and hiring workers in compliance with new regulations. Our platform was built to give full flexibility. Customers can build and manage teams of trusted workers who know their businesses inside out. They can ramp up or down quickly, without disrupting their existing teams and only pay for the hours needed.
“This expansion is a commitment. We are bringing energy, passion, and our expertise to Manchester, working to empower businesses, create more job opportunities, and redefine workforce flexibility. This is part of our global purpose to empower human connection through flexible work."
Coople was founded in Switzerland in 2009 and has been operating in the UK since 2016 More than 1 million workers are registered with Coople in the UK and Switzerland.
