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The current economic uncertainty has prompted both private and public sectors to review operational costs, efficiency, governance and risk and ask the question 'how can we do this better and more cost effectively?'
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One of the biggest headaches faced by business leaders in an uncertain economy is managing the people they employ.
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With the latest unemployment figure declared as 1.97 million, the highest in 10 years, and with that figure predicted to rise significantly, there’s no doubt that the UK is in the grip of what is likely to be a long and painful recession. For companies across all sectors, this inevitably means that the competition for the lion’s share of shrinking markets becomes harder to achieve. Differentiation will be in terms of talent retention, products, services and, of course, costs.
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The Office for National Statistics (“ONS”) has selected the Capita Group Plc (“Capita”) to recruit and train all the temporary ONS workers who will work as field staff for the 2011 Census of Population and Housing in England and Wales and to administer their pay. The contract will be worth around £25 million over two and a half years.
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Southampton City Council has used HR & payroll outsourcing as a means to introduce innovations such as employee self-service while improving its own service delivery. Read the Conspectus.com interview with Jackie Standen, HR Director from Southampton City Council.
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