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| Convergys to Provide Starbucks with HR Services | |||||||||||||
| Convergys Corporation, a provider of customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced a multi-year contract with Starbucks Coffee Company to provide global human resources business process services, beginning with Starbucks North American operations. Under terms of the contract, Convergys will provide human resource (HR) administration and payroll services for Starbucks partners in the United States and Canada, along with benefits services for Starbucks partners in Canada. The goal is to help Starbucks build a single global platform for HR services to support Starbucks' rapid global expansion. | |||||||||||||
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Jul-30-2007
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| Social Networking Enters HR World with Mentor Scout 2.0 | |||||||||||||
| Mentor Scout, a division of Nobscot Corporation, has released a new edition of its talent management software that adds broad social networking capabilities designed to help nurture and retain the 75 million Generation Y/Millennial workers currently entering the workforce. The program is the first to use social networking tools --- a vital part of everyday life for younger people today --- to promote employee interaction, collaboration, recognition and self-expression. Mentor Scout’s new Talent Networking Edition enables employees to create MySpace-style profiles about their professional and personal lives as a means of engaging them with the organization. The social networking functions are arranged in tabs such as “Projects” (for posting information about current work projects, challenges or ideas); “Applause” (for praise or thank-yous from colleagues); “Favorites” (for listing preferences on issues such as websites, books, blogs, classes, lunch spots and productivity tools); and “Get Togethers” (for arranging social meetings). | |||||||||||||
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Jul-30-2007
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| TriNet Acquires HR Outsourcing Provider John Parry & Alexander | |||||||||||||
| TriNet Group Inc, a nationwide provider of human resource (HR) outsourcing services for small and medium-sized companies, has announced the next stage of its growth and expansion strategy through the acquisition of the business of John Parry & Alexander (JPA), an HR outsourcing and consulting services company based in Walnut Creek, California. All executives and employees from JPA have become full-time team members of TriNet. Specific terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. | |||||||||||||
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Jul-30-2007
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| IBM Rules Govern Workers in Virtual Worlds | |||||||||||||
| Anything pretty much goes in online virtual worlds. Increasingly though, these online zones like "Second Life" are also becoming places where commerce is happening. Big companies such as IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. use these graphics-rich sites to conduct meetings among far-flung employees and to show customers graphical representations of ideas and products. Now, in hopes of capturing the power of this new platform while avoiding potentially embarrassing incidents, IBM is taking the unusual step of establishing official guidelines for its more than 5,000 employees who inhabit "Second Life" and other online universes. [Source: MSNBC] | |||||||||||||
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Jul-30-2007
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| Workstream Launches On-Demand Solutions for Mid-Market Businesses | |||||||||||||
| Workstream Inc., a provider of on-demand compensation, performance, and talent management solutions, has announced three new on-demand solutions -- Workstream Recruitment Professional, Workstream Performance Professional and Workstream Development Professional -- for mid-sized businesses. Traditionally, a large enterprise solution provider, Workstream is now broadening its product line to aggressively target companies with between 100 and 2,500 employees. The new Workstream solutions address a long-ignored need among mid-market companies for on-demand human capital management solutions that can be deployed quickly and work immediately out-of-the-box. | |||||||||||||
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Jul-05-2007
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