Back in the days when father knew best and Donna Reed was in the kitchen, most workers had full-time jobs. Today, more and more companies are adding contingent (anyone who is not full time) labor to the mix to get the most out of their talent. In some cases, the current contingent workforce is typically [...]
Ceridian had 14 HRO service centers in Scotland. Now it has four. Hear how this consolidation helped both the service providers and its buyers.
You’d think with today’s record unemployment it would be easy to fill jobs. Not so for jobs in sales or those requiring tech skills. Today it’s taking longer to fill them and employers have to make more offers to get a taker. Jim McCoy explains why.
Elliot Clark discusses the increased interest in global solutions and the bundling of permanent and contingent labor.
Tim Geisert of Kenexa discuss what mature outsourcing buyers are looking for in today’s RPO.
Outsourcing Excellence Award – Best Global Services: Carillion PLC and Accenture Carillion PLC is a leading support services company. It operates in a highly competitive industry where achieving its margin targets demands a rigorous approach to controlling costs and delivering profitable growth. Carillion’s disparate processes and underlying systems were a potential obstacle to that growth. [...]
Every company that relies on a large workforce has one thing in common – the desire to acquire and manage workers in a way that provides the most value without hurting the bottom line. But usually that is where the similarities end. Most companies have unique goals, objectives and challenges of varying complexities that require [...]
Antex International is a leading payroll and HR administration service provider in Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean region. AI has offices and in-country-based knowledge experts supporting services in 11 countries in the EMEA region. Antex International is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and was founded in 2005 by the Italian-based group Fis Antex as a [...]
The universal complaint about human resources outsourcing in general and RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) in particular has been that few if any service providers have both a local and global reach. It has been difficult to provide best-of-breed services in every location on the globe an outsourcing buyer may need. “RPO buyers have searched for [...]
Zalaris is a leading pan-Nordic provider of innovative and cost-effective HR Outsourcing (HRO), HR technology and HR consulting services to large Nordic and international customers. Our smartHR solution powered by SAP HR includes a full service range of comprehensive personnel administrative processes including payroll, employee help desk, talent management and analytics. As an SAP BPO [...]
For most companies, the desire to reduce costs or improve efficiencies (or more likely, both) drives the decision to explore Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) options. However, cost and efficacy issues aside, risk management is one of the most important (and perhaps least understood) value-adds of the RPO arrangement, especially when the definition of risk includes [...]
HR outsourcing went through a shake-out over the past two years due to the continual issues around scope and other challenges that buyers and service providers encountered over the past decade. The dust has settled from the revamping efforts, but there are new challenges on the horizon. Here’s what your company needs to know for [...]
Which industries will experience a surge in outsourcing in the next few years, and what risks will buyers of those services face? Are there business processes or functions that will begin turning to outsourcing in the next two to five years? What value opportunities and risks will they bring? In what geographic regions will companies [...]
Xchanging is one of the largest and fastest growing business processors. With a wide range of multinational customers in 42 countries and employing over 8,000 people, we are a truly global company. Our aim is simply to provide business processing services better, cheaper and faster. Xchanging provides procurement, accounting, human resources and technology services across [...]
As GE’s Jack Welch states, mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. In studying outsourcing relationships through Outsourcing Center’s annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards program since 1996, Outsourcing Center has aggregated and analyzed the lessons learned – mistakes and successes – by hundreds of buyers and providers of outsourcing services. These lessons learned [...]
In studying outsourcing relationships through Outsourcing Center’s annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards program since 1996, Outsourcing Center has aggregated and analyzed the lessons learned – mistakes and successes – by hundreds of buyers of outsourcing services. These 100 lessons learned focus on issues related to each phase in the outsourcing life cycle – provider selection, contract [...]
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