The latest from PARiM
Workforce management ideas and product announcements
How to make meeting the ACS accreditation criteria for security companies easier
Looking in from the outside, the ACS Accreditation process seems like a useful and necessary scheme. Yet, having undergone many audits in my time, the whole audit process to check paperwork, numbers, systems and procedures can seem daunting and the preparation for it be quite time consuming. Currently there isn’t much way around the files and files of paper required to be prepared for checking, and let’s face it - there’s not many of us who diligently prepare all this sort of paperwork 100% as we go along!
Do you have employees who have a different holiday allowance from other staff members?
In addition to setting the default annual holiday allowance in your Account Settings, there’s also the option to apply an individual allowance.
Make Managing Remote Employees Easier
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a vast corporation with offices and departments scattered around the globe or a small business with some employees that occasionally work out of the office or remotely. You will still have to grapple with the challenge of making remote teams work as effectively or efficiently as people working all in the same place.
UK local authorities turning to older temporary workers to deliver services
Staffing Industry Analysts, the global advisor on contingent work, has published an article that states that according to the latest Comensura Government Index, during the financial year of April 2013 to March 2014, temporary labour usage in local authorities and other public bodies increased by +2.7%. This suggests that local authorities are continuing to use temporary labour to provide greater workforce flexibility in delivering
Have you ever worried about whether the employee you're assigning to a shift has all the necessary qualifications?
The new compatibility check on Schedule view lets you know right away if anything is missing or wrong when assigning a shift to a staff member.
Are you a larger company with branches in several places or want to define different divisions?
We’ve now got a departments feature designed for cases just like that! You can find the new section and add departments on your Account Settings page, right under the FAQ section.
Something awesome is cooking!
Our team members have been exceptionally excited lately - a few months ago Paul, one of our developers, officially started building something that had been on our minds for quite a while - the PARiM mobile application! We’ve been on the edge of our seats for a while, and after a lot of hard work we are happy to announce that the release of the beta version of our mobile app is just around the corner!
Latest big improvements to PARiM - data import and multiple department structure
We’ve got some exciting news this week – yesterday evening we released yet another new version of PARiM featuring some awesome new tools and a few design changes as well. Here’s what’s new!
Do you have shifts that need covering over and over again at a specific time or a staff member who always has the same shifts?
Instead of creating a new shift every week for the same thing, you can create a pattern of shifts!
How to get selected as a temporary workforce provider
If you are a recruitment agency and you supply temporary staff to larger companies - how are they assessing you? Here are a few key points that we think you should keep in mind when organizing your business.
How to eliminate the technological barrier?
Technology has moved so fast and come so far in the last 30 years. Many years ago I used to be the finance director of a company that cleaned 30,000 telephone boxes in the U.K. Now you are hard pressed to find any. I also remember punch cards and computers the size of rooms whirring rhythmically. These days the speed at which developments take place and technology moves can create a fear in some - not everyone can embrace or welcome the latest gadget. So in some people there is a psychological barrier or a reluctance to try out or put the effort into learning, something that could save them time and change their working lives for the
5 mistakes we make when hiring new people
Choosing the right people to bring on board is one of the most important decisions you have to make. Yet, way too many employers still trip up on the same typical things when searching for that one and only. We recently read a great article on Forbes about the top five hiring mistakes every startup makes - and loved it - so we decided to add our own
4 great articles on customer service you should follow
Here at PARiM, our client is our everything, and in addition to building software, we are also constantly learning how to deliver even faster, friendlier and overall excellent customer support. We found a few articles that represent our own principles and views on everything related to client support quite well, and what we’ll do is link you to them and also point out a few key ideas we especially agree with. He
Staff portals in workforce management software can help work-life balance
Nowadays everyone is more focused on a good work-life balance. This can put a strain on an employer because you have to maximise your company’s staffing resources in order to achieve your corporate Key Performance Outcomes whilst meeting the expectations of your employees.
PARiM turns one!
That’s right - the very first version of PARiM was finished exactly one year ago! To celebrate our anniversary, we have put together a short historical overview to remind ourselves and our friends how we got started and relive the immense progress and everything we’ve achieved during the past year.
New version of PARiM is up and running!
We’re happy to announce that yet another new version of PARiM is up and running!
What have we been up to?
Do you feel like we’ve been off the radar a bit during the last few months? Well, maybe just a little. But only because we’ve been working extra hard to come back with a bunch of great news!
PARiM released a new version with an advanced upload facility for documents
Now all PARiM users can upload and manage documents. Company administrators can upload all the necessary documents to the system and specify who can read and download the files. Administrator is able to specify whether the file is site specific, is it for the certain staff member to read or a client document. Staff and clients can log in to PARiM and see all t
Manage your company assets (mobiles, laptops, unifors etc.) with PARiM
With PARiM Assets Management your are able to keep track of your organisation assets: mobile phones, computers, uniforms etc. Once new things have been arrived to stock, insert items to PARiM and never lose track of them.
PARiM broke the record in UK government start-up loan history
Founders of PARiM, Riko Muttik and Risto Urb, pitched their idea at the start-up loan panel two weeks ago and they were more than successful. Since the beginning of 2012 more than 2,000 businesses have been approved for funding. Riko and Risto broke the record with their software project PARiM in March and got the biggest fund approved so far in the start-up