Snelling Staffing Services today announced the success of their paperless payroll initiative. By replacing paper paychecks with a payroll card and electronic pay options, Snelling will provide all of their employees with greater convenience, security and reduced costs in accessing pay.
"Our business is based on having a talented, available workforce, so it is critical for us to provide added benefits to attract and retain quality workers," stated Roger Rohus, VP, Payroll and Billing Services, Snelling Staffing Services. "The Ecount Payroll Choices Program will enable us to pay all of our workers electronically and paperlessly, removing the need for employees to come to the office to pick up their checks, ensuring the security and safety of funds with zero liability protection, eliminating check cashing fees and guaranteeing pay on-time, every time."
Ecount, a Citi company, provides Snelling with the Payroll Choices Program, which provides organizations with the tools to convert their employee base to 100 percent paperless and electronic payroll. A cornerstone of the program is the Ecount Payroll Card, a prepaid Visa® card, that enables organizations to eliminate paper check management, and the high cost and hassles associated with them. In addition, Ecount provides electronic paystubs, compliance tools and easy technology integration (read: no technology investment), together with a strategy and team of consultative experts to help businesses achieve their corporate objectives.
Most organizations are looking for ways to trim unnecessary costs from their budget -- and migrating payroll from a paper-based, inefficient, manual process to a streamlined, paperless payroll is a great way to reduce avoidable expenditures. For organizations with a less-than-optimal direct deposit adoption rate, the Ecount Payroll Choices Program has quickly become the answer to their payroll problems enabling companies to provide desirable options to employees, while still effectively achieving a paperless and electronic payroll.
"Snelling, like all of our clients, relies on their workforce for their business," stated Matt Gillin, CEO of Ecount. "With the Payroll Choices Program, corporations are able to provide a real benefit to their employees, while improving their overall operations. By eliminating paper from their payroll processing, our clients are achieving cost savings of up to 75 percent, streamlining operations, eliminating the on-site payday 'fire drill' and providing a better payday experience for their employees."
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Resolve Staffing
Resolve Staffing
Founded in 1998, Resolve Staffing provides outsourced human resource services across the United States. The company offers a range of supplemental staffing and outsourced solutions, including professional employer organization services and solutions for temporary, temporary-to-hire, or direct hire staffing in the medical, truck driver, clerical, office administration, customer service, professional, and light industrial categories.
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Resolve Staffing operates 70 offices in 20 states, including a large presence in Ohio, Florida, and the Inland Empire of California. Resolve's new brand name will be Select Staffing(SM), while Resolve's PEO business will operate under the brand Employee Leasing Services.
Founded in 1998, Resolve Staffing provides outsourced human resource services across the United States. The company offers a range of supplemental staffing and outsourced solutions, including professional employer organization services and solutions for temporary, temporary-to-hire, or direct hire staffing in the medical, truck driver, clerical, office administration, customer service, professional, and light industrial categories.
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Resolve Staffing operates 70 offices in 20 states, including a large presence in Ohio, Florida, and the Inland Empire of California. Resolve's new brand name will be Select Staffing(SM), while Resolve's PEO business will operate under the brand Employee Leasing Services.
Select Staffing
Select Staffing Expansion
Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1985, The Select Family of Staffing Companies is one of the nation's fastest-growing, full-service staffing companies. The company operates as Select Staffing(SM), SelectRemedy(TM), Remedy® Intelligent Staffing, RemX® Financial Staffing, RemX® IT Staffing, RemX® OfficeStaff, and other national brands. Select Staffing(SM) offers premier workforce management services, including recruiting and screening professional job candidates, payroll and time attendance management, on-site supervision, proactive safety programs, and specialty staffing solutions, to a wide variety of client companies, including manufacturing, industrial, clerical, administrative, accounting, finance, information technology, and professional services.
Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1985, The Select Family of Staffing Companies is one of the nation's fastest-growing, full-service staffing companies. The company operates as Select Staffing(SM), SelectRemedy(TM), Remedy® Intelligent Staffing, RemX® Financial Staffing, RemX® IT Staffing, RemX® OfficeStaff, and other national brands. Select Staffing(SM) offers premier workforce management services, including recruiting and screening professional job candidates, payroll and time attendance management, on-site supervision, proactive safety programs, and specialty staffing solutions, to a wide variety of client companies, including manufacturing, industrial, clerical, administrative, accounting, finance, information technology, and professional services.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Axium Bankruptcy
Managed Staffing, a national provider of vendor managed services, announced today that it has established a Transition Services Team (TST) to provide a seamless transition model for companies and employees affected by the sudden closing of Ensemble Chimes Global, an Axium International Company. Chimes Global closed after it filed bankruptcy on January 10th. It was a leader in contingency labor management and payroll services. The unexpected closing left a number of companies and employees without paychecks or payroll services and has placed millions of dollars in payroll deposits and tax monies in limbo.
Nobody saw it coming. This has left a huge hole in the market for thousands of employees whose payroll was dependent on Chimes," said Ron Abell, Executive Vice President of Managed Staffing. "Our TST is set up to reach out to companies and individuals who have been impacted by the Chimes event, and to help them minimize the disruption in their workforce staffing and payroll operations."
Those companies affected still have payroll and tax liability obligations, and Managed Staffing is positioned to assume immediate responsibility of all 1099's, contract administration and payroll functions. Managed Staffing also offers competitive benefits, vendor-neutral solutions and a comprehensive suite of contingent workforce solutions.
Nobody saw it coming. This has left a huge hole in the market for thousands of employees whose payroll was dependent on Chimes," said Ron Abell, Executive Vice President of Managed Staffing. "Our TST is set up to reach out to companies and individuals who have been impacted by the Chimes event, and to help them minimize the disruption in their workforce staffing and payroll operations."
Those companies affected still have payroll and tax liability obligations, and Managed Staffing is positioned to assume immediate responsibility of all 1099's, contract administration and payroll functions. Managed Staffing also offers competitive benefits, vendor-neutral solutions and a comprehensive suite of contingent workforce solutions.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Labor Consultant India
Alp Management Consultants
is a professionally managed labor consultant India and HR consultancy firm headquartered in Bangalore. We have the right combination of state of the art infrastructure and efficient manpower to handle the most complex HR requirements of any business, irrespective of the size of the company. We have extensive experience of functioning as a labor consultant India for different companies from the IT, ITES, consumer, industrial, finance, and healthcare industries
is a professionally managed labor consultant India and HR consultancy firm headquartered in Bangalore. We have the right combination of state of the art infrastructure and efficient manpower to handle the most complex HR requirements of any business, irrespective of the size of the company. We have extensive experience of functioning as a labor consultant India for different companies from the IT, ITES, consumer, industrial, finance, and healthcare industries
Saturday, January 19, 2008
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East will take place on June 23-24, 2008 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York.
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East brings together the best minds in the business to New York for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today. As Zapthink analyst Jason Bloomberg has noted, "SOA involves rethinking how the business leverages IT in many various ways." Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East and learn from more than 100 speakers about how SOA is transforming business--and the way IT and business managers think about their businesses, processes, and technology.
The colocation of SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East and Virtualization Conference & Expo delivers the most relevant content to IT and business. Conference attendees will be able to choose from four great tracks at this year's event. Mix and match all you want, or slot into your favorite topic for the duration! The tracks include:
• Web 2.0/AJAX and SOA • Interop Standards and Services• Real-World SOA• SOA Technology• Virtualization• Specially Selected Hot Topics
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East brings together the best minds in the business to New York for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today. As Zapthink analyst Jason Bloomberg has noted, "SOA involves rethinking how the business leverages IT in many various ways." Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East and learn from more than 100 speakers about how SOA is transforming business--and the way IT and business managers think about their businesses, processes, and technology.
The colocation of SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East and Virtualization Conference & Expo delivers the most relevant content to IT and business. Conference attendees will be able to choose from four great tracks at this year's event. Mix and match all you want, or slot into your favorite topic for the duration! The tracks include:
• Web 2.0/AJAX and SOA • Interop Standards and Services• Real-World SOA• SOA Technology• Virtualization• Specially Selected Hot Topics
SOA Solution From RedPrairie
RedPrairie announced that The Finish Line will implement RedPrairie’s Workforce Management application, with future plans to implement RedPrairie’s Execution Management application. The Finish Line looks to improve customer and associate satisfaction while increasing the efficiency and accuracy of its labor schedules and labor cost tracking.
“We selected RedPrairie because it is proven in our industry, and it provides the most highly integrated, end-to-end solution for managing the operations of our stores,” said Finish Line Sr. Vice President of Information Systems, Roger Underwood. “RedPrairie has extensive capabilities in workforce management, due to their ability to integrate their execution management application. Once we are fully implemented with both applications, we will be better able to forecast our labor and project execution needs to achieve highly accurate labor coverage to match the need in our stores.”
RedPrairie’s time and attendance solution allows retailers to closely monitor labor hours and costs as they are incurred. Key capabilities of the application include time clock integration with posted schedules, enabling automatic employee punch validation; actionable alerts to notify managers of potential issues, such as employees approaching overtime; and automated payroll closing.
According to Kim Eaton, RedPrairie’s Executive Vice President, Field Operations, Americas, “Our solutions run in over 30,000 retail locations, scheduling and prioritizing the work of over one million employees each week.”
Eaton continued, “With visibility and responsiveness to real-time consumer demand, RedPrairie is the only solution provider that delivers a fully integrated workforce management suite that optimizes all task and traffic-driven labor needs. Ultimately, retailers are able to improve their business by capitalizing on revenue opportunities and aligning labor dollars to the right priorities.”
“We selected RedPrairie because it is proven in our industry, and it provides the most highly integrated, end-to-end solution for managing the operations of our stores,” said Finish Line Sr. Vice President of Information Systems, Roger Underwood. “RedPrairie has extensive capabilities in workforce management, due to their ability to integrate their execution management application. Once we are fully implemented with both applications, we will be better able to forecast our labor and project execution needs to achieve highly accurate labor coverage to match the need in our stores.”
RedPrairie’s time and attendance solution allows retailers to closely monitor labor hours and costs as they are incurred. Key capabilities of the application include time clock integration with posted schedules, enabling automatic employee punch validation; actionable alerts to notify managers of potential issues, such as employees approaching overtime; and automated payroll closing.
According to Kim Eaton, RedPrairie’s Executive Vice President, Field Operations, Americas, “Our solutions run in over 30,000 retail locations, scheduling and prioritizing the work of over one million employees each week.”
Eaton continued, “With visibility and responsiveness to real-time consumer demand, RedPrairie is the only solution provider that delivers a fully integrated workforce management suite that optimizes all task and traffic-driven labor needs. Ultimately, retailers are able to improve their business by capitalizing on revenue opportunities and aligning labor dollars to the right priorities.”
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Many workers have sophisticated skills and some companies budget for temps
Demand for specialized skills
Companies are increasingly demanding more specialized skills from temporary workers. It’s not enough for warehouse workers to be able to lift – they have to be able to handle inventory and complete data entry – and receptionists have to know Microsoft Word and Excel at the least, Schneiderman said.
Businesses are recognizing they can hire highly skilled project professionals through staffing services in specialized areas like finance, information technology and administrative support.
“People call us because they figure we have people with higher skill levels,” she said. “If they wanted mediocre workers, they’d hire anyone off the street.”
In an attempt to increase the skill set of many under-qualified workers, Kelly Services offers a free computer skills tutorial for its workers. WorkSource also has skills training.
“We don’t want to just put people in our database,” Schneiderman said. “We want to put them to work and increase their skills so they can earn more money and get better placements.”
Beam said many workers are coming to staffing services with more sophisticated computer skills. Some have experience with PageMaker and InDesign, where basic computer skills used to cut it.
Schneiderman said there have been layoffs in Southwest Washington this year, which has increased some of the skill sets being funneled into staffing services.
Hot temp sectors include manufacturing, office staff and accountants.
As the forecasted skills shortage grows nearer, these companies should be prepared to compete harder for these higher skilled workers. But a temporary workforce that is presenting itself, perhaps for the first time in such force, is retirees.
The pool may grow substantially in the next few years as active boomers who may not be ready to stop working completely continue to retire.
Nisenfeld expects to see continued strength in the temporary market in the coming months. She also expects there will be some loosening of the labor market, but it will be offset by retirements and regular exits from the workforce.
“Some companies are going to have to rethink what they’re doing to recruit because it’s so competitive for good employees,” Schneiderman said. “They can’t compete with low, low salaries.”
Nisenfeld said she wouldn’t be surprised if most companies budget for temporary help – the SWWDC does.
“It’s a great way to handle unforeseen tasks and backed up workflow,” she said. “It’s a regular cost of doing business.”
Companies are increasingly demanding more specialized skills from temporary workers. It’s not enough for warehouse workers to be able to lift – they have to be able to handle inventory and complete data entry – and receptionists have to know Microsoft Word and Excel at the least, Schneiderman said.
Businesses are recognizing they can hire highly skilled project professionals through staffing services in specialized areas like finance, information technology and administrative support.
“People call us because they figure we have people with higher skill levels,” she said. “If they wanted mediocre workers, they’d hire anyone off the street.”
In an attempt to increase the skill set of many under-qualified workers, Kelly Services offers a free computer skills tutorial for its workers. WorkSource also has skills training.
“We don’t want to just put people in our database,” Schneiderman said. “We want to put them to work and increase their skills so they can earn more money and get better placements.”
Beam said many workers are coming to staffing services with more sophisticated computer skills. Some have experience with PageMaker and InDesign, where basic computer skills used to cut it.
Schneiderman said there have been layoffs in Southwest Washington this year, which has increased some of the skill sets being funneled into staffing services.
Hot temp sectors include manufacturing, office staff and accountants.
As the forecasted skills shortage grows nearer, these companies should be prepared to compete harder for these higher skilled workers. But a temporary workforce that is presenting itself, perhaps for the first time in such force, is retirees.
The pool may grow substantially in the next few years as active boomers who may not be ready to stop working completely continue to retire.
Nisenfeld expects to see continued strength in the temporary market in the coming months. She also expects there will be some loosening of the labor market, but it will be offset by retirements and regular exits from the workforce.
“Some companies are going to have to rethink what they’re doing to recruit because it’s so competitive for good employees,” Schneiderman said. “They can’t compete with low, low salaries.”
Nisenfeld said she wouldn’t be surprised if most companies budget for temporary help – the SWWDC does.
“It’s a great way to handle unforeseen tasks and backed up workflow,” she said. “It’s a regular cost of doing business.”
Temporary workforce gains strength
Once viewed as a stopgap measure, the use of temporary workers is now included in the long-term planning efforts of many companies.
In a national study, more than 70 percent of executives polled said they rely on the staffing practice and include a place for it in their overall human resource budgets.
The study, which was commissioned by California-based OfficeTeam and conducted by an independent research firm, included interviews with 150 senior executives at the nation’s 1,000 largest companies.
Locally, one staffing service has seen its placement of temporary workers increase by a third in the past year because of increased demand by area companies
In a national study, more than 70 percent of executives polled said they rely on the staffing practice and include a place for it in their overall human resource budgets.
The study, which was commissioned by California-based OfficeTeam and conducted by an independent research firm, included interviews with 150 senior executives at the nation’s 1,000 largest companies.
Locally, one staffing service has seen its placement of temporary workers increase by a third in the past year because of increased demand by area companies
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
SMART Workforce Management Solutions
A leading provider of solutions for workforce management for over twenty years, SMART has helped some of the world's most successful companies maximise the performance, productivity and value of their people. In turn, this has enabled our customers to achieve a sustainable reduction in their people costs of up to 10%.
Delivering a complete solution, from time and attendance to workforce scheduling and from development to installation to customer support, our customers enjoy a more flexible working environment and an improved work-life balance for their greatest asset – their workforce.
SMART Workforce Management Solutions:
Manage complex shifts and annualised hours
Right size staff instantly to meet fluctuating demands
Cut absenteeism and recruitment costs
End spiralling overtime and see productivity climb
Improve employee relationships with powerful self-service
Implement flexible working and create business agility
Customers Include: Ocado, Gist, Habitat, Jaguar, JCB, NHS, Mandarin Oriental, Sainsbury's, Swissport, Trailfinders, Tussauds Group and Greater Manchester Fire.
SMART Technology
SMART's integrated solutions for workforce management provide efficient people management anywhere in the world. Developed using microsoft.NET technology, our zero-footprint web solutions are flexible, reliable, scalable and easy to implement. Whether fully installed on site, delivered as a managed or hosted service, the architecture enables you to focus on the specific areas of priority, and reconfigure the system at will to meet new challenges such as changes to Working Time Regulations. SMART systems enable planning, data capture and authorisation anywhere and everywhere you need it. Web-based advanced self-service, touch-screen kiosks and mobile activation via phone and PDA, ensure that employees can use the system even if they don't have PC access. Zero footprint SMART Web Technology ensures that no desktop installation or downloading of components, applets or software are required. It also ensures low network installation costs across all SMART solution modules and even lower maintenance/upgrade overheads in the future.
Customers
Our customers include some of the world's best known organisations, and our solutions and expertise extend to cover a broad range of industries including, Aviation, Logistics, Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Hospitality, Government and Healthcare.
Professional Support
SMART's focus and dedication to end-to-end customer support ensures that you enjoy maximum benefit with minimal cost of ownership. SMART delivers a comprehensive range of services, including; Project management, Implementation, Business Consulting, Training, Technology Support and more. This ensures that we future-proof your investment and provide a workforce solution that will meet your needs today and into the future.
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Delivering a complete solution, from time and attendance to workforce scheduling and from development to installation to customer support, our customers enjoy a more flexible working environment and an improved work-life balance for their greatest asset – their workforce.
SMART Workforce Management Solutions:
Manage complex shifts and annualised hours
Right size staff instantly to meet fluctuating demands
Cut absenteeism and recruitment costs
End spiralling overtime and see productivity climb
Improve employee relationships with powerful self-service
Implement flexible working and create business agility
Customers Include: Ocado, Gist, Habitat, Jaguar, JCB, NHS, Mandarin Oriental, Sainsbury's, Swissport, Trailfinders, Tussauds Group and Greater Manchester Fire.
SMART Technology
SMART's integrated solutions for workforce management provide efficient people management anywhere in the world. Developed using microsoft.NET technology, our zero-footprint web solutions are flexible, reliable, scalable and easy to implement. Whether fully installed on site, delivered as a managed or hosted service, the architecture enables you to focus on the specific areas of priority, and reconfigure the system at will to meet new challenges such as changes to Working Time Regulations. SMART systems enable planning, data capture and authorisation anywhere and everywhere you need it. Web-based advanced self-service, touch-screen kiosks and mobile activation via phone and PDA, ensure that employees can use the system even if they don't have PC access. Zero footprint SMART Web Technology ensures that no desktop installation or downloading of components, applets or software are required. It also ensures low network installation costs across all SMART solution modules and even lower maintenance/upgrade overheads in the future.
Customers
Our customers include some of the world's best known organisations, and our solutions and expertise extend to cover a broad range of industries including, Aviation, Logistics, Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Hospitality, Government and Healthcare.
Professional Support
SMART's focus and dedication to end-to-end customer support ensures that you enjoy maximum benefit with minimal cost of ownership. SMART delivers a comprehensive range of services, including; Project management, Implementation, Business Consulting, Training, Technology Support and more. This ensures that we future-proof your investment and provide a workforce solution that will meet your needs today and into the future.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Risks of not moving towards outsourcing, specifically Smart-Sourcing.
In many ways, we only need to look to the U.S. automotive industry to answer that question. In manufacturing, those industries that delayed or simply ignored the move to off shoring paid and continue to pay a heavy price. Change in any industry is painful, especially when the industry is accustomed to premier stature. The only thing more painful, in the long run, is ignoring the change. We need to face the challenge and opportunity of globalization with a retooling of our educational systems and our workforce. For those individuals, organizations and nations who resist the future will be uncompromising in passing judgment on their inability to keep pace.
Technologies part in the Enterprise Process of Smart-sourcing
Smart-Sourcing is a business decision but, like so many business decisions in today's organizations, you cannot separate the business from the underlying technology. Doing so would be like a pilot trying to maneuver a plane without understanding the limits and capabilities of the aircraft. What's most important to keep in mind when considering how technology fits in is to look carefully at the ways in which the organization doing the Smart-Sourcing and the provider of the Smart-Sourcing link their technologies in order to achieve agility and accelerate innovation? It's fairly easy to have someone else perform a process, but not so easy to make sure that process continues to keep pace with every other aspect of your business after it's been outsourced. Smart-Sourcing requires greater synchronization and coordination of processes that may reside with multiple partners. That is primarily a technology challenge.
Smart-sourcing Dependence on Intelligent Knowledge of a Company's Core Competency
Simply put, you cannot smart-source without an explicit and well understood definition of a company’s core competency because you will not have a solid foundation for partnering on what is non-core. It is amazing how often a senior exec at an organization will be stumped by the question of core competency. Far too many people define a core competency as a product or service. Core competencies are rooted much deeper in an organization's culture, brand, and behaviors than any product or service. Understanding your core competency is essential if you are to identify where you should focus your energy and resources. It is also key in accepting those things that detract from, dilute or otherwise compete for your resources.
Once a company understands its core competency, it should proceed in the following manner.
Knowing what you are best at is a start. But then you need to objectively understand the metrics of performance in both your core and non-core areas. In a Smart-Sourcing analysis, you will actually rate your processes on two dimensions: from core to none- core; and then from high performance to low performance. The result will be a set of four categories of process, those that you Optimize, Reengineer, Outsource and Offshore. This is a rigorous process that takes much of the guesswork out of an outsourcing and off shoring decision by making it objective and methodical. As amazing as it may seem, to date most outsourcing and off shoring decisions have involved much more seat-of-the-pants and intuitive decision making than methodology. Smart-Sourcing is about moving the decision from art form to science
Once a company understands its core competency, it should proceed in the following manner.
Knowing what you are best at is a start. But then you need to objectively understand the metrics of performance in both your core and non-core areas. In a Smart-Sourcing analysis, you will actually rate your processes on two dimensions: from core to none- core; and then from high performance to low performance. The result will be a set of four categories of process, those that you Optimize, Reengineer, Outsource and Offshore. This is a rigorous process that takes much of the guesswork out of an outsourcing and off shoring decision by making it objective and methodical. As amazing as it may seem, to date most outsourcing and off shoring decisions have involved much more seat-of-the-pants and intuitive decision making than methodology. Smart-Sourcing is about moving the decision from art form to science
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