The 225 locations that perform payroll tasks and other processes for clients will be cut to 180.
By moving shift planning to the cloud, along with related HR, communication and payroll tasks, managers save time and money, while Brondum says employees are "more satisfied because they have full overview of their shifts, swap-requests, pay slips, messages and colleagues -– right on their smart phone".
They are also buying into the global trend toward outsourcing corporate tasks like payroll administration, product testing and manufacturing.
Oracle offered $19.50 a share for PeopleSoft last month to secure its No. 2 ranking behind SAP in sales of software for business tasks like payroll and accounting.
His Black Umbrella business cards say "Director of Operations," but Ms. Hooper said he mostly helps with administrative tasks like payroll.
PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., has repeatedly said that a merger with Oracle would seriously reduce competition in the market for specialized business software that automates tasks like payroll, accounting and inventory management.
SAP, which makes software to manage tasks like payroll for 18,000 customers including Nestlé and the United States Department of Defense, said license revenue, a measure of business growth, fell 23percentto to 496 million euros ($491 million) in the second quarter.
Outsourcing firms can take up various tasks, from payroll to benefits to recruiting, to free up a client to focus on its strengths, said Don Weinstein, senior vice president for product management at ADP, a large H.R. outsourcing firm.
And affordable cloud accounting programs, such as Wave and Xero, are simplifying tedious payroll and book-keeping tasks.
The pilot and the co-pilot were "leased"to Air Ambulance from DecisionPEO, a St .Petersburg, Fla .temp outfit that handles payroll, personnel and other tasks.
Each one spawns volumes of related regulations as well as periodic amendments—a boon for firms that support payroll, withholding or personnel tasks.
