Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Small businesses historically have not had equal opportunity in outsourcing because they didn’t have enough employees to make it financially feasible. Now there is a comprehensive suite of HR services available to companies of all sizes, including those with 1-75 employees.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
When Circuit City spun off CarMax, the car retailer had no HR department. CarMax had to decide whether it should gear up PeopleSoft and keep the function in-house or outsource. Outsourcing won because of the supplier’s depth of functions in addition to the cost savings.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Neither a banking software glitch nor an international blackout kept Ceridian Canada’s payroll customers from receiving their paychecks.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Payroll becomes the central focus of human resources outsourcing. This saves trees because paper forms become a thing of the past.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Employees get a sinking feeling when they look at their paychecks and they’re wrong! If they believe the payroll department didn’t calculate their overtime properly or deducted too much for their health insurance, the first thing they do is reach for the telephone. Then, the payroll staff has to drop everything and reconstruct what happened to determine if they were paid the proper amount.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Outsourcing suppliers are responsive in a crisis. Forty-five minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Compaq executives were on the phone, putting together a triage of support for its eight financial clients with Recover-All contracts as well as its many other customers headquartered in the twin towers. Tom Simmons, vice president of Compaq Managed Services in Stowe, Massachusetts, says within three hours Compaq had organized a crisis center routing telephone questions to Colorado Springs and opened a walk-in facility near Madison Square Garden manned by its Northeast sales team. A crisis Web site was online that night.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Outsourcing was the right course for Meadowbrook Golf. The Lakeland, Florida company owns, leases or manages 100 golf courses in 16 states; during the summer the employee roster swells to 3,500. Payroll and tax filing took two days to complete every pay period.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Responding to the need to address simultaneous and often rapid changes in the business environment, Nortel Networks a global leader in telephony, data, e-Business, and wireless solutions for the Internet has turned to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for business process outsourcing (BPO) services.
Richard Lister
On January 1, 1999, eleven member countries of the European Union (EU) will adopt the Euro as their common currency. This move has complex implications for outsourcing in Europe. It will affect existing and new contracts and, more fundamentally, have an impact on the market structure.
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