Functional
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HR Market Health & Vendor Updates
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This info is now old (May 17), but I always find it interesting to see how vendors are doing. HRmarketer.blogspot.com has a quarterly review of some trends. Here are…
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Outsourcing and Strategic HR
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Andrew wrote a nice piece about outsourcers and how they have to change their “look” in order to succeed in the future. To quote him, Business service providers need…
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HR Technology News notes
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I just got done saying how nobody out there in HRO could really implement international payroll in a single platform. There are exceptions out there of course, but I…
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing
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I’m not totally sure what the difference is between RPO and hiring a headhunter. Perhaps there is more technology invloved, but a headhunter does many of the same functions….
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One more thing about labor management systems
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One more thing about labor management systems: It will really help you with your wage and hour compliance.
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Time & Labor Management and tracking your key EE metrics
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You know, I never talk much about labor management (because payroll and timekeeping is boring), but here’s a great example. If we take a quick inventory of our major…
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Talent, Outsourcing, and MSS
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Since my last post was on talent, I thought I’d see if I could tie it back into systems somehow. As we continuously look at talent in both retention…
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Global Payroll Outsourcing
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One of the major irritations to multinational companies attempting to manage their employees through a single database is the inability to outsource payroll to a single provider. Instead, if…
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HRO and non-cost decision drivers
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First of all, if you have never looked here – check out Cap Gemeni’s library. So Cap Gemeni comes out with a survey that organizations looking to outsource really…
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Outsourcing is failing the large employer market
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There’s quite a bit of Deloitte research out there on outsourcing in general. Much of it points to the positive impact of outsourcing, and a recent study notes outsourcing’s…
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Benefit compliance and vendors part 2
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Single sourcing, or using multiple vendors? Let’s take 401(k), where you might have Fidelity doing the recordkeeping and account administration (stock investments). This seems like the fox guarding the…
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Benefit compliance and vendors
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I’ll be on a benefits kick today. I visited an organization that allows it’s broker access to the employee base in order to sell voluntary benefit plans. Due to…
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SAP and HRO platforms
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A few weeks ago I stated I thought SAP would end up being the default HRMS platform for HRO/BPO vendors. Looks like they have started the ball rolling. Instead…
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IBM’s inability to capitalize on HRO
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Well, maybe tier inability to capitalize on IT services and BPO in general seem to have tripped up the entire stock market, and especially the U.S. market. IBM has…
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HRO executives expect consolidation
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All the major HRO players are saying their sales pipelines are full. The problem is that competition is making the revenues per employee per year drop substantially, and margins…
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Oh My God!!! Payroll Outsourcing
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Ultimate is not the best payroll outsourcer. In fact, do they even really qualify for this category? Let’s talk Paychex, ADP and Ceridian. Now these are outsourcers. What’s the…
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BrassRing and staffing HRO
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I thought it would be a cool thing to spotlight either vendor services or software functionality every now and then. Generally I won’t look at “the normal stuff” but…
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Outsourcing employment verifications with Talx
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Every time I go visit clients to think about new HRMS systems, one of the topics that comes up most often (functionally) is how software can automate all the…
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HR Budget Funding
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Surprise surprise!! This article begins by stating that HR is often the last department to get funding for technology and process automation. However, this historical trend seems to be…
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Terrorism, telecommuting, and technology
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In a freakish twist, some government officials are promoting telecommuting as a possible cornerstone of security in the face of terrorist threats. It seems that in the even of…