Erik Fjellborg, CEO and founder, tells me he founded Quinyx after having worked one summer at McDonald's where he recognised the issue of workforce management hands-on, spotting that his manager was constantly on the phone trying to piece together the employee schedule.
Though it is still in beta, Colony is hopeful that its collaborative network will drive the future of workforce management.
The most significant action they can take is to offer subsidized flu shots, says Joyce Maroney, director of the Workforce Institute at Kronos, a provider of workforce management software.
Joyce Maroney, director of the Workforce Institute at Kronos, a provider of workforce management software, says this kind of networking is essential: "If you're strictly relying on sending resumes to open positions you find on the Internet, that's the path of least resistance".
For example, sub-optimal human resources information systems hamper efforts to determine the adequacy of training and efficiency of workforce management in many tuberculosis control programs.
He presents the results of a realist evaluation of the role of workforce management in well-performing healthcare organisations and identified some mechanisms underlying the better performance of these well-performing hospitals.
