Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Outsourcing HR 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 …
J Ben Trowbridge
Midsized businesses frequently have the same challenges that larger organizations have. At some point, they have to standardize their internal services, like HR, in order to scale or control costs. Enter outsourcing benefits. Outsourcing the build and then taking it back after some time (Build Operate & Transfer) or by outsourcing the operations in an …
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Renewals are the big news in human resources outsourcing. Mohammed Haque, Vice President & Head of Enterprise Solutions Service practice at Genpact, estimates about $40 billion in contracts will come up for renewal from 2010-2012. How buyers go about renewals is about to change. Buyers are becoming “much more aggressive in going out and getting …
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
HRO and talent management processes are taking some dramatic turns. Here are the insights you need to know about what’s happening with the value proposition in both of these areas and how decision-making needs to be altered going forward.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity firm, is operating in today’s uncertain financial markets. Instead of doing strategic work, the CFO found he lost whole days dealing with employee problems, since he was also responsible for HR, too. Outsourcing to ADP TotalSource not only saved time but also gave the firm’s employees more benefits, which became a great recruiting tool.
John Harney, Business Writer
When the government agencies award a contract to IT vendors, they expect them to ramp up staff in a hurry. But carrying staff to potentially service a big contract is as cost-prohibitive as maintaining a large human resources department. That was the challenge for EMCO Technologies, a small Louisiana IT company. It hired Administaff to pick up the HR load so it could land more federal contracts and expand nationally.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
ABB Inc., a technology manufacturer, grew by acquisitions. In 1995 ABB wanted to create a single culture with centralized processes and policies. It decided the best way to do this was outsource. Its first step: centralizing its 401(k) plan. Today, 13 years later, ABB has outsourced many of its HR processes to its original supplier: Fidelity HR Services.
John Harney, Business Writer
Three executives, including the president, performed HR tasks when U.S. Energy Services was a small company. When the employee roster exceeded 50 people, it was time to outsource HR. Even though the costs remained the same, the company is getting five times the benefits.
John Harney, Business Writer
Charmant’s existing payroll software was outmoded, hard to use, and not integrated into its time and attendance system, which created challenges for the eyewear distributor’s two-person human resources department. The HR manager staked his job on an outsourcing solution . . . which worked.
John Harney, Business Writer
BTIG, an outsourcing brokerage firm, offers high-priced traders to smaller hedge funds and family-owned funds–customers who otherwise could not afford them. To maintain high-priced staff, BTIG needs to give them the same level of benefits their peers are enjoying. Outsourcing to Gevity allowed it to do this and help the company grow, too.
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