Ikon Solutions Asia, Inc.

REMOTE WORKFORCE

Blue Prism | September 28, 2021

Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), a leading provider of banking and wealth management services, is advancing its intelligent automation strategy with the use of Blue Prism's® digital workforce, enabling the business to address key strategic objectives to improve customer experience, employee satisfaction and productivity. When selecting an automation platform to help drive its digital transformation journey, BIL recognized Blue Prism's strong audit capab...

Microsoft | March 10, 2020

Microsoft will continue to pay vendor hourly service providers as Seattle-area office employees work from home during novel coronavirus spread in the area, it announced March 5. The company has a reduced need for the hourly workers who support its campuses in Puget Sound and northern California, including cafe staffers, shuttle bus drivers and on-site tech and AV workers. However, Microsoft pledged to provide regular pay for these workers "regardless of whether their full services are neede...

SHRM | March 10, 2020

An extra 35,000 H-2B temporary-worker visas will be made available to employers for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2020, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The H-2B guest-worker program, capped annually at 66,000 visas split evenly between the fall/winter and spring/summer seasons, is relied upon by the landscaping, hospitality and construction industries, among others. This marks the fourth year in a row that DHS has released additional H-2B visas in response to pressu...

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

VONQ | December 14, 2021

Recruitology and VONQ announced today that Recruitology's job distribution service is now available for VONQ clients in North America. Employers on VONQ will be able to easily distribute their jobs with one click to hundreds of job sites in various industries including healthcare, hospitality, construction, manufacturing and education. They will also be able to target diverse audiences, entry-level talent, and local job seekers through Recruitology's proprietary network of partner job bo...