WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT,EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
TrueBlue | December 20, 2022
TrueBlue is honored to be named to the National Association for Business Resources (NABR) list of Best and Brightest Companies to Work For both in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. The program identifies and honors companies that deliver exceptional human resource practices and an impressive commitment to their employees.
"Our employees are our greatest asset, and we are committed to making our company a place where they can advance and thrive, We are proud to be among this year's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For and will use this opportunity to further our employee-first culture."
-Steve Cooper, CEO of TrueBlue
With over 20 years of experience conducting the Best and Brightest competitions, the NABR has identified Human Resources best practices and benchmarks for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards. Applicants are scored on categories including compensation, benefits and wellness programs; employee engagement and retention; employee achievement and recognition; diversity, equity and inclusion; work-life balance; and leadership, strategy, and company performance. The 2022 winning companies were assessed by an independent firm, against a number of key measures relative to other nationally recognized winners.
The regional program announces winners across six regions—Charlotte, Denver, Miami, Nashville, New York and the Pacific Northwest—annually. This year, the program received 630 nominations, and named 91 winners.
The national program names winners throughout the year in spring, summer, fall and winter. The winter Best and Brightest program honored 61 winning organizations from across the country out of 400 nominations.
About TrueBlue
TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. In 2021, TrueBlue connected approximately 615,000 people with work. Its PeopleReady segment offers on-demand, industrial staffing, PeopleManagement offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing and commercial driver services, and PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed service provider (MSP) solutions to a wide variety of industries.
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HR ANALYTICS
Visier | November 21, 2022
Visier, the globally recognized leader in people analytics and workforce solutions for people-powered business, today announced the launch of Alpine by Visier, a new Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Visier, and the first open innovation platform that makes it easy to compose, enrich, and scale powerful people focused analytic applications.
"People data is complex, messy and often lacks context, Alpine by Visier gives organizations the power to build, embed and deploy enterprise-class people analytic applications faster, more securely and more reliably by tapping into the full stack of people analytic capabilities that power over 25,000 organizations today."
-Dave Weisbeck, Chief Strategy Officer at Visier
Visier also announced Alpine Summit, the company's first annual developers conference. This gathering of innovators, architects, and technologists will be held Dec 6-9, 2023 in Vancouver, BC., the location of Visier's founding, and a region whose snow-capped mountains inspired the name Alpine.
Developers and organizations that build on Alpine are able to access a portfolio of modular services that can be consumed programmatically and embedded into third-party applications and workflows. In addition to powering Visier People, these platform capabilities are also the foundation for embedded analytic solutions provided by vendors like Paycor, Cegid, Insperity, and others. Alpine by Visier will broaden the reach of these platform services to other SaaS companies, systems integrators, and developers who want to build custom solutions atop Visier and/or consume individual services to augment or extend existing applications and workflows.
Visier allows us to bring enterprise-class infrastructure to Paycor Analytics and provides a robust solution that enables data insights tailored to HR, benchmarking, predictive analytics and more, exceeding any other solution on the market, said Ryan Bergstrom, Chief Product Officer at Paycor.
Organizations utilizing Alpine by Visier leverage over 12 years of innovation in building the most widely adopted people analytics solution on the planet. Benefits include:
The most complete people intelligence PaaS: Build and bring to market enterprise-class people applications faster by embedding a powerful array of platform services.
The only open platform for composing, scaling, and embedding people apps: Improve a workflow by embedding a single chart, or build a whole people-centric application with a powerful full stack IDE.
The best people data available for enriching applications: Use benchmarks, skills ontologies and AI-driven predictions to bolster your applications.
There is no shortage of problems to be solved with work, workforce, and workplace data in business today, That's why we're excited about our thriving alliance with Visier, and specifically, the innovative solutions that can be built atop the Alpine platform,said Marc Solow, Managing Director, Human Capital Analytics and Insights Solutions Practice Leader at Deloitte.
Alpine by Visier empowers teams and developers to focus on innovating for growth and differentiation. It provides the foundation upon which they can quickly build an enterprise-class application or functionality that scales, is easy to deploy, and is embeddable anywhere.
Five key services of Alpine by Visier include capabilities to:
Compose powerful people applications with the most complete people-centric services and APIs. Forecast, plan, analyze, visualize, share, secure, and capture people-centric stories and decisions in your application.
Enrich applications with new people data, harmonize across datasets, and standardize existing data. Understand what good looks like by bringing the benchmark benefits of over 15M continuously updated employee records to your application.
Model the nuance of how people engage, develop, and progress by integrating people data from anywhere into the most powerful people-data modeling engine. From describing a hiring workflow to defining inclusion and belonging, gain the advantages of modeling meant for the real world complexities of people.
Scale, secure, and manage sensitive people data throughout its lifecycle. The world's only complete lifecycle management for secure, multi-user development with metadata merging and integrated promotion to production support.
Extend or embed the world's most powerful and widely used people analytics application - Visier People. Access a single API, or build your own application from the ground up, or gain the speed and simplicity advantages by simply extending Visier People.
About Visier
Visier is the recognized global leader in people analytics, providing on-demand answers to people-powered businesses. Behind every great brand, product, or idea is the Human Truth, and the Visier People Cloud reveals the fundamental questions and actionable truths capable of elevating your employees—and your business—to new heights. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, Visier has over 25,000 customers in 75 countries around the world, including enterprises like BASF, Bridgestone, Electronic Arts, McKesson, MerckKGaA, Uber, and more. Visier is headquartered in Vancouver, BC with offices and team members worldwide.
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HR ANALYTICS,EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
PrestigePEO | January 06, 2023
USA’s leading professional employer organization (PEO), PrestigePEO, recently announced the acquisition of Advantage Personnel Resources, LLC. APR is a PEO that offers various human resources services, employee benefits, payroll management, and workers' compensation 24/7/365 to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
APR helps small business owners with a team of experienced professionals with considerable HR and business administration skills. APR is well-positioned within PrestigePEO's expanding family of brands due to its company operating expertise, a clear awareness of SMBs' needs, and a robust PEO broker network.
PrestigePEO and APR offer a range of valuable HR and benefits options to health insurance brokers for their clients. PrestigePEO and APR will continue to form new alliances within the broker community.
With the acquisition of APR, PrestigePEO will be able to focus even more on helping SMBs in the southern states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Additionally, PrestigePEO offers APR and its clients’ access to a wide range of services, including employee benefits from national insurance carriers, 401k alternatives, specialized HR support teams, and other possibilities thanks to its comprehensive state-of-the-art technology and processes.
About PrestigePEO
PrestigePEO enables small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) to streamline HR by providing comprehensive support for managing employee benefits, processing payroll, monitoring employee compliance, and more. PrestigePEO delivers a broad range of HR services and solutions to assist SMBs reduce administrative tasks, manage crucial HR operations, and lower employee benefit cost by combining the power of sector-leading customer service with advanced technological options.
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