This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog looks again at the Financial Management part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide.

It’s now been almost a couple of years since the very first version of PARiM workforce management software was launched.

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog looks at the Financial Management part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide.

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog looks at the COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog continues to look at the PROCESSES part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide and deals with the detail of this section.

In this series of nine blogs I am attempting to simplify and suggest ways to help your company meet the requirements as laid out in the Self Assessment Workbook Guide. In my opinion the more companies achieve and maintain ACS Accreditation the better. The guide details what you, your company, your staff and clients need to do in order for

There are many security companies in the U.K and many start up each year. Through the SIA the UK Government is rightly keen that the security industry be regulated and security companies be encouraged to seek accreditation and affirmation that their systems and procedures are suitable to provide a recognisable and reliable security service to individual

What are an SMEs fixed assets? Fixed assets are assets that are purchased by a business for use within that business and can include land, machines, office equipment, trademarks, tablets, pcs, mobile phones and uniforms.

Last week I wrote about some of the challenges facing Start Ups and SME’s and in this blog I would like to continue with another one of the key issues they face. The time required for the strategic planning and why you, as a Startup or SME should make it a priority.

As the founder or director of a start up or a SME, there are many challenges and demands on your time especially if you are expanding. You are often the key person within the business the fulcrum around which the business and staff pivot, the glue that keeps it all together and paradoxically the oil that smoothes its operation from service delivery to staff management. It can be a very difficult and demanding task even if you have a solid dependable lieutenant by your side, capable of eating administration tasks for breakfas

Employees can set themselves unavailable for any period of time by going to their shift calendar in the staff portal, clicking on a day in it and setting the dates of the unavailability.

Workforce management in layman’s terms is the task of managing or handling your employees, staff or workforce. That’s managing their hours, the tasks they do, the scheduling of both of these, their overall workload, their allocation to specific jobs, tasks or shifts and the communication with them.

You can add expenses to shifts. Here’s how:

According to Staffing Industry Analysts and the latest Comensura Government Index, during April 2013 to March 2014, temporary labour usage in local authorities and other public bodies increased by a total of +2.7%. The increase shows that local authorities are continuously more eager to use temporary workforce to provide greater labour fl

When uploading new documents on your documents page, you can make them relevant or visible to either all staff or specific employees.

Love them or hate them, paper timesheets have been used by companies for years and years despite the many problems and challenges to overcome when dealing with them.

On most pages, there is a list of staff members on the left hand side of the screen. To get to a user’s profile fast, double click on their name in the list and it will instantly take you there!

Yesterday evening we released another exciting new feature we’ve been working on - the staff availability calendar!

Managing a company with a flexible workforce requires expertise, knowledge, patience and good communication skills and adds another level of complexity and administration that needs to be coped with. With the new flexible working hours legislation we look at the challenges and ways to minimise any administrative hassle when staff scheduling.

Last weekend we released yet another new version of PARiM along with some very exciting new features and updates. Let’s have a closer look at what’s different!