How to select an HR SaaS provider
The impact of the changing economic environment on the HR function has been significant and led to many legislative and regulatory changes. But it has also resulted in a shift in staff expectations and the employee/employer relationship, all of which have necessitated a review of HR business processes. Such a revamp means that it may […]
Colt saves £300,000 on recruitment costs by consolidating systems
Colt Technology Services has saved £300,000 on recruitment costs alone this year by replacing a hotchpotch of recruitment systems with a single Software-as-a-Service-based offering. Telecoms and IT services specialist Colt operates in 13 countries and is expanding rapidly. Because it is currently hiring about 600 new staff a year, the company was keen to apply […]
Virgin Media provides customer service-style Employee Services
Virgin Media has taken a leaf out of customer services’ book by centralising its HR, payroll and benefits units into a single Employee Services division in a bid to provide staff with a more consistent experience. The telecoms supplier brought the three previously separate teams together so that they could pool resources and share expertise […]
SuccessFactors to expand beyond traditional HCM base
"In good companies, CEOs recognise the power of the people they have and the power that HR can bring to the table. If the CEO doesn’t respect what HR can bring to the table and sees it as a transactional function, well, we can try to bridge the gap. We try to ‘up-level’ HR to […]
RBS pay details exposed in Hays email
Recruitment specialist Hays has launched an internal investigation after one of its employees forwarded on an email revealing the pay of thousands of contractors who work for the Royal Bank of Scotland. According to Sky News, the message, which disclosed the pay of about 3,000 contract and temporary staff employed in areas such as HR […]
UK IT workforce at its biggest ever
More people than ever before are now employed in ICT, unless they work in the public sector, which is seeing an overall relative decline, reports our sister site, www.publictechnology.net. According to just-released data from ICT sector skills body e-skills UK, www.e-skills.com/bulletin, on the state of demand and supply of ICT labour and skills in the […]
BA and Oracle launch social media-based recruitment campaigns
British Airways and Oracle are both using social media as key planks of new recruitment drives that are being described as among their biggest ever. The UK’s flag carrier airline is using YouTube to promote three new hiring schemes that will comprise its biggest pilot recruitment drive in 10 years. It plans to […]
Analysis: How should the HR software industry respond to the changing HR environment?
In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of pressure being placed on organisations’ HR department by the board, and with HR legislation flying out of Downing Street at an alarming rate, software providers have been forced to develop technology that meets client requirements in a constantly changing environment. HR technology […]
What a performance! Talent and technology
As the competition for talent hots up, companies must get the link between performance and reward spot on, says Stuart Hearn, Commercial Director at Vaado Software. Rewarding employees correctly based on how they perform is a tricky area for companies, but if they get it wrong then productivity and motivation levels can nose-dive. Nothing is […]
How should the HR software industry respond to the changing HR environment and rise in HR legislation?
In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of pressure being placed on organisations’ HR department by the board, and with HR legislation flying out of Downing Street at an alarming rate, software providers have been forced to develop technology that meets client requirements in a constantly changing environment. HR technology […]
Recruitment to go
Everything today points to the mobile channel playing a leading role in recruitment. The technology, phones and uncompromising demands of Generation Y have aligned to create the ideal conditions. All that’s needed now is for the recruitment industry to broaden its vision of what’s possible, says Helen Griffiths, Business Development Manager, Oxygen8 Communications. For all […]
Women in technical roles get training funding
The science Sector Skills Council has set up a £213,000 training pot to help UK employers finance the training and development of female staff, with the aim of increasing representation in non-traditional technical roles. The creation of the fund, which will see beneficiaries receive a maximum training grant of £600 per person, follows Cogent’s successful […]
The success factors: goal setting, execution tools and performance feedback
A study has found that companies which set and align goals, vary performance feedback and use tools effectively to increase business execution see higher stock returns and grow more quickly than those who don’t. The research, which was undertaken with data on goal setting, alignment, and system usage characteristics in 153 of SuccessFactors publicly […]
Classroom based learning still favoured
In spite of a wealth of technology-based learning and development tools being adopted, classroom-based learning remains the most popular training format. According to a survey undertaken among 2,500 employees at companies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain by learning and development provider Cegos Group, nine out of 10 still receive training in a […]
Facing the challenge of business transformation – Societe Generale
Luz Helena Rojas is an elegant, vivacious woman who stepped before the SuccessConnect audience with a bold smile and a joke to open her presentation about how she has implemented a new HRIS to help achieve the key business aim of a global company in an extremely challenging atmosphere and sector: the French bank, Societe […]
Engineering and science skills priced at a premium
A huge 43% of employers are now finding it difficult to recruit workers with science, technology, engineering and maths skills and so are increasingly paying premium rates for such expertise, according to the CBI. But the employer lobby group’s ‘Education and Skills’ survey of 566 organisations undertaken with the national UK qualifications awarding body EDI […]
US tech giants sued for wage fixing and anti-poaching agreements
A raft of US tech and film giants, including Apple, Google and Pixar, have been sued for anti-competitive behaviour after allegedly undertaking employee wage-fixing and agreeing not to poach each other’s staff. The move follows a probe by the US Department of Justice last year, which resulted in the firms, which also include Lucasfilm, Intel […]
What’s holding back women in business?
Marion Stewart considers the challenges women have faced and continue to face in business and whether quotas will help create more diversity in sectors such as her own – IT. The government review – challenging the status quoThe subject of getting more women in executive positions in British businesses following Lord Davies’ report, Women on […]
SuccessFactors purchases Plateau for $290m
SuccessFactors has purchased Software-as-a-Service-based learning management system provider Plateau for $290 million in cash and stock in a bid to build out its talent management system and compete more effectively with on-premise vendors. The acquisition will be integrated with Jambok’s SaaS-based social video learning system, which SuccessFactors acquired in March, as well as its own […]
HR at a crossroads: can we collaborate to improve business execution?
Successful organisations need strategic HR people working with IT people to create systems that empower the alignment of workforces through a combination of goals, targets, pay for performance, reviews and effective communication of strategy. That’s the theory anyway. The reality – as exposed by a new study from Cloud Computing firm SuccessFactors and services giant […]
