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!

In addition to setting the default annual holiday allowance in your Account Settings, there’s also the option to apply an individual allowance.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

Instead of creating a new shift every week for the same thing, you can create a pattern of shifts!

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.

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

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

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.

We’re happy to announce that yet another new version of PARiM is up and running!

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!