Functional
-
Does Kronos own Kronos HR?
.
I’m posting this because I’m fairly ticked off about a “conversation” I had with someone on another bulletin board. During this conversation (with many other people) I expressed some…
-
Offshoring as Outsourcing
.
Offshoring is a huge topic these days, and as it impacts HR and I can tie it to outsourcing, I’ll write about it. If you are curious, here are…
-
Single sourcing HRO?
.
What’s up with HRO vendors revisited. As sort of a follow-up to my last post on HR Consultancies, here’s an interesting article about HRO and the wisdom of single…
-
Implementation glitches and huge clients
.
Apparently Fidelity’s benefit administration services division screwed up 22,000 GM employees and retirees who no longer have benefits (temporarily). Now, I don’t usually comment on benefits administration, but as…
-
HRO prices going down for small business
.
This Inc. article is a nice review of costs of HRO for smaller businesses. Although I really don’t focus on small business, it’s difficult to provide economies of scale…
-
Mellon HRMS Survey for 2005 – Immature HRO Industry
.
Again, here’s another somewhat self serving HRMS survey, but Mellon actually surveyed a couple hundred HR and finance professionals, so it looks pretty good and objective. Also, Mellon was…
-
Aon’s self serving press release and ROI
.
I promise I will do a post on ROI in the near future. This is a bit of a rant about consutling company studies that are publisehd in trade…
-
Sarbanes Oxley and a case for Outsourcing
.
Thought I’d take a minute to comment on Deloitte’s top 10 problems for financial reporting in 2005. See it here Note that the top 2 items are very HR…
-
Watson Wyatt weighs in on Bush’s Social Security plan
.
In an unexpectedly objective move for an actuarial service, Watson Wyatt released oppositionary opinions on W’s private accounts for Socual Security, one for and one against. Unexpected for me…
-
Pensions vs. 401(k)?
.
http://www.benefitnews.com/retire/detail.cfm?id=7267 With continuing problems around 401(k), are pensions really dead? Consumers are increasingly aware of problems investing for retirement income. Between employees not having any sophistication or investing savvy,…
-
Mellon HRO purchased by ACS???
.
ACS Deal For Mellon Unit Shows HR Outsourcing’s On A Roll My first thought was “who the heck is ACS?” Word on the street was that Watson Wyatt was…
-
What’s up with HRO vendors?
.
The human resource outsourcing industry may be the fastest growth segment of BPO. However, the US HRO (HR BPO) market is in complete dissaray. Nobody has the entire service…