Hiring Holiday Help
 November, 2009 - Retailers are ramping up hiring to ensure there are enough associates on the selling floor when crowds of holiday shoppers converge on their stores. A "do-more-with-less" theme permeates as companies look to optimize labor and execute at the store level with good customer service.
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New Technology, Same Bad Habits
October 15, 2009 - Introducing new technology to a company is often like a game of Jenga. The popular game starts off with a tall, stable pillar constructed of hardwood blocks. As players remove blocks from the bottom of the structure and place them on the top, the entire pillar increasingly becomes unstable. Ultimately, if you remove the wrong block, or place it in the wrong position on top, the whole pillar comes tumbling down.
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KUHF Business News
Monday AM October 12th, 2009 - Flu-related absenteeism can happen whether the worker falls sick or stays at home to care for family members who are sick. Employers can take steps to prepare for increased absenteeism, as Ed Mayberry reports.
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Planning Ahead For Flu Pandemic Investor’s Business Daily
October 9, 2009 -- Workforce management consultant Axsium Group says absenteeism will be a central issue as companies wrestle with a potential swine flu outbreak this fall and winter.
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The Balanced Labor Model
September 3, 2009 - A consensus is growing among organizations across a variety of industries that, in these trying economic times, effective management of labor will be the most important factor for measuring success.
Labor ranks among the highest costs of doing business. According to Forrester Research, retailers spend between 10 and 15 percent of total sales on labor. Health-care sector labor costs can account for more than 50 percent of total operating costs.
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The Power of the People
June, 2009 - Small business; big bang. Some small businesses seem destined to stay just that way while others grow up fast. While myriad factors influence success, experts say in most cases, it’s people – and how you manage them – who make the biggest difference. Just five years ago, Tim Lett launched a consultancy to tap into what he felt was an underserviced niche in the workforce management software arena.
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VNSNY Bids Goodbye to Bubbles
June 18, 2009 - How do you keep track of 5,000 people, most of them working out in the field? The Visiting Nurse Service of New York just completed implementation of a $1 million workforce management system to help coordinate its huge nursing staff. VNSNY is the first big New York customer for Axsium Group, a workforce management consulting firm that launched a health care unit in April.
Read more at Crain’s Health Pulse
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