PEO Blog in Industry News

Hawaii businesses are focusing more on money-generating activity

As the island economy has begun to falter, outsourcing is one aspect of the business community that is gearing up for a boom.

Although outsourcing has been a trend among Hawaii’s businesses since pre 9/11, it’s beginning to pick up steam. As the challenges to making money mount in Hawaii’s current economy, a growing number of Hawaii companies and small businesses have decided to outsource human resource functions or any other service that is not core to their product delivery.

Hired Greenwood-based Tilson HR PEO to conduct initial screening interviews for perspective employees.

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. - Wayne County’s newest major employer, Really Cool Foods, will be accepting on-line applications for full-time positions starting Monday, July 28.

Really Cool Foods is a fast-growing innovator in the field of fresh-prepared organic and natural food. The company is nearing completion of a 79,000 square foot processing and distribution facility at Cambridge City. Really Cool Foods will be hiring for 140 positions. The company is planning to expand in phases over the next several years.

Exploding health-care costs have been small businesses’ biggest problem for years. And it’s not getting any better. More than half of the 365 small businesses that the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) surveyed in late November said that their premiums rose by as much as 10 percent in 2007 year. One-fifth said they saw increases of 11 percent or more.

Los Angeles HR Consulting firm CPEhr, and Junior Achievement, a non-profit organization, hosted a Job Shadow Day for 30 high-students from Downtown Business Magnets High School. Job shadow Day includes HR topics such as labor law, interviewing techniques and more.

Los Angeles, CA—Los Angeles HR Consulting firm CPEhr, and Junior Achievement, a non-profit organization, hosted a Job Shadow Day for 30 high-students from Downtown Business Magnets High School.

Site Offers Complimentary White Paper on HR Efficiencies

DALLAS—Odyssey OneSource, a Texas-based human resources outsourcing and consulting firm, recently launched its new HR Audits Website. The site offers Odyssey’s strategic “audit” methodology designed to improve a company’s HR functions.

“HRaudits.com enables us to focus on providing interested companies a specific service, geared towards assessing a company’s current state of HR health,” says Britt Wirt, Director of Sales and Marketing. “Our overall goal is to help clients grow their business through a full range of strategic human resource administration and management solutions. HR Audits.com is the first step companies can take to find out more about our services. At the conclusion of the audit process, clients will fully recognize, all of the areas of concern and potential areas for improvement within their HR department.”