Recently, when addressing a group of business owners, I asked them to share their greatest business challenges. Not surprisingly, the responses were immediate and ranged from issues of marketing and time management, to staffing and finances. We had a short discussion and soon realised...
More and more people every day are looking for ways of working from home. Working from home has never been so popular and the choice of types of employment seems endless. You might decide to start your own home based business and work long hours to achieve a dream of...
Like most women, you're probably juggling many balls at once. Most likely you have a job, whether it's inside or outside the home, as well as volunteer and family-related responsibilities. The problem is, with 24 hours in a day, eight or more of which are spent in your pajamas, it's...
Remember when you got your first job and realized one movie ticket was equal to one hour of work or that a pair of shoes was an entire workday? Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped looking at our paychecks as units of time and started focusing on how...
Under tech target policy employees set their own hours and take all the vacation they want. There are no set policies mandating working hours or detailing sick, personal, or vacation days. Open-leave sounds great in theory. But how do you make it work? The first, and perhaps most difficult, step...
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. (NasdaqCM: CKSW), the leading provider of mobile workforce management and service optimization solutions, today announced that it will release its second quarter 2008 financial results on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 during pre-market hours. The release will be followed...
HARRODSBURG, Ky. -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, will be transferring additional production to its plant here from its Camdenton, Missouri, facility, one of those U.S.-based operations the company intends to close over an 18- to 24-month period. With the new...
New paper from The Workforce Institute([TM]) unlocks the secrets of effective hourly hiring CHICAGO -- Many employers are unsuccessful in their efforts to attract quality frontline workers and retain them long enough to realize a return on their investment. With the high turnover rates among hourly workers, hiring...
Kronos([R]) customers hire the best using Workforce Acquisition([TM]) CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- More than 60 percent of the U.S. workforce is made up of hourly workers, amongst whom turnover rates can be as high as 80-100 percent. This dynamic is increasingly driving organizations with a high percentage of field-based...
WorkforceLogic Inc. has released the 2008 version of its flagship HR software and services platform--WorkforceLogic Version 6.5. This software package is designed to help employers plan and man age complex projects and related staffing requirements. The 2008 version provides users a comprehensive software platform for HR departments to plan, develop...
Emissions Reduced: Reduced Global Warming Emissions 20 Percent Per Chip Since 2004 Teachers Trained: More than 5 Million, in 40 Countries Hours Volunteered: 550,000 (by 38 Percent of Employees) Water Reclaimed: More than 3 Billion Gallons Waste Recycled: More than 80 Percent...
New paper from The Workforce Institute[TM] explores differences in hourly employees; provides recommendations for talent management strategies CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- More than 60 percent of the United States workforce is employed in hourly work, with this workforce predicted to grow even larger over the coming years. Despite the...
DALLAS, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Titanium Metals Corporation TIMET announced that the hourly production and maintenance workforce and the hourly clerical and technical workforce at its titanium mill products facility in Toronto, Ohio ratified a new, three-year labor agreement terminating July 1, 2011. The new agreement provides...
Booth # 625 - Ensim Corporation, the leadingprovider of user provisioning and access control software, today announcedthat it will demonstrate its latest web-based Active Directory managementtools for its Unify Enterprise platform at this week's Microsoft ManagementSummit 2008 in Las Vegas. Ensim Unify, which self-installs in less than one hour and...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- During National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 20-26, we honor the more than nearly 2000 medical laboratory professionals across in Minnesota who perform and interpret lab tests that save lives and keep people healthy. But Clinical Laboratory Technicians CLT and Clinical Laboratory Scientists CLS...
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- AMECO, a unit of Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR), providing integrated equipment and tool solutions to government and industry, announced today that its global workforce of more than 1,800 employees has achieved 20 million safe work hours from March 1, 2001 to March 17, 2008, with no lost-time injuries....
Enwisen ,the leader in on-demand workforce communications solutions, today announcedthat Alegent Health, the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcaresystem in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa, has selected and gone live withEnwisen's AnswerSource Onboarding solution -- a leadingonboarding orchestration technology that automates the three key componentsof onboarding: task management, forms management and...
New Paper Explores the Role of Frontline Managers in Retaining Hourly Workers CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Organizations of all sizes struggle with how to retain their best hourly employees, but frequently overlook the critical role that a frontline manager plays in the process. A new white paper from The...
BUCHAREST AFP — Negotiations remained stalled Friday between management and unions as a strike for better wages at the French-owned Romanian car plant Dacia brought production down to a trickle. The management of Dacia, owned by the French carmaker Renault, refused to budge until the unions called off...
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