Reinvent how you hire horticulture labour

We make it simple and affordable to hire experienced horticulture staff for temporary and casual needs.

Vinomofo
Koala
Quay
Youfoodz
The Relocation Company

Australia’s best pool of horticulture workers

We partner with the NGIV, Tafes and Universities to continuously recruit the best talent into our growing labour pool. We currently have 2,100 screened, experienced, and work-ready staff available for hire.

  • Production assistant
  • Dispatch
  • Deflasking
  • Tissue culture
  • Mother stock
  • Potting
  • Sowing line
  • Machine operators
  • Admin assistants

Why hire with Sidekicker

Hands off onboarding

All staff pass our rigorous screening process, which takes the admin off your hands and ensures staff arrive on-site qualified, safe, and ready to work.

15% pass rate

Scale up quickly & easily

Our hiring platform allows you to respond in real-time to fluctuating demands–ensuring you stay flexible yet well supported throughout the year.

Average time to fill shifts <1hr

More reliable & productive staff

Workers are rated & reviewed after every shift–allowing you to choose the best staff based on past performance at businesses like yours.

Workers must maintain a 4/5 star rating

We simplify processes & reduce costs

We combine our team and innovative technology to make temporary staffing work for you.

Hire however & whenever it suits you

Easily request staff online, by phone or email. Requests are instantly matched with available and qualified staff.

We make compliance easy & transparent

Digital compliance systems give you security that everyone who works for you is qualified and safe to work, and being paid correctly.

Control who works for your business

If desired, select your staff using staff profiles that show experience and ratings & reviews from other businesses.

Work with the same staff you trust

Smart Talent Pools make it easy to allocate your preferred staff to jobs, driving continuity of workers and greatly improving productivity and output.

Simple & integrated timesheeting systems

Digital time capture systems save you time, enable us to record real-time data on hours and costs, and can integrate with your existing WMS.

Unparalleled insights with real-time reporting

Gain visibility into labour hours and costs in real time. See how any or all of your sites are performing and measure against budgeted hours or output.

Easily order staff online. Your orders are instantly sent to available, compliant and qualified staff, making our fill times the fastest in the industry.
Digital compliance systems give you security that everyone who works for you is qualified and safe to work, and being paid correctly.
Control who works for your business with access to online profiles with experience, past performance and ratings & reviews from other businesses.
Drive retention and continuity of your favourite workers - customers have increased retention by as much as 70%.
Digital time capture systems save you time, enable us to record real-time data on hours and costs, and can integrate with your existing WMS.
Gain visibility into labour hours and costs in real time. See how any or all of your sites are performing and measure against budgeted hours or output.

We work with nurseries of all sizes–from national suppliers to local growers, and provide all labour requirements–from ad hoc needs to ongoing workforces of 100+

Join leading businesses reinventing how they hire

- Matt Mansfield, Owner & Director - Mansfield’s Propagation

Sidekicker gives us so much flexibility.

The attitude of staff is so good, and their ability to pick up tasks quickly ensures we maintain high productivity. We can also control who works for us and easily rehire the same staff over and over.

If we as an industry can retain a trained casual labour pool with Sidekicker–with staff working across multiple nurseries all with different peaks and troughs–we have a great opportunity to get further ahead as an industry.

- Raelene Trimble, Director, Faceys Nursery

Sidekicker offers an amazingly innovative staffing solution that brings the latest technology to nurseries big and small, and is creating a great opportunity for our industry to have access to a pool of shared nursery labour hire.

Sidekicker is incredibly easy to use–giving you access to reliable and experienced team members who are on call even at the last minute.

Less time spent on recruitment gives you more time to spend on your business.

- David Reid, Nursery & Garden Institute of Victoria

We are delighted to welcome Sidekicker into our highly valued Industry Partnership Program.

NGIV sees our partners as extensions of ourselves—they carry out plans for the greater benefit and sustainability of the horticultural industry.

We would not be able to provide the level of service and member benefits that we currently do without Sidekicker’s support. We encourage all NGIV members and supporters to get behind our new industry partner.

- Sharon White, HR Manager, Ball Australia

Sidekicker brings a new way of hiring that gives us flexibility and control, and makes it so simple to hire great candidates with the experience and skills we need.

We love that by hiring experienced horticulture staff with Sidekicker we’re supporting a thriving casual workforce across the industry.

The support we have received from the Sidekicker team has also been amazing – we’re very happy!

Mansfield’s Propagation Nursery
Linen House
Linen House
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