5 Reasons to Integrate…
5 Reasons to Integrate Your Org Chart into Your Intranet by Chris Meyers. Increasingly more mobile, and distributed, today's workforce is spread across offices and time zones, making it more difficult for people to connect with each other like they used to. The days of tapping someone on the [...]
Making Sense of Your Data
Making Sense of your HR Data with Org Charts If your organisation is like most, your HR relevant data is stored across multiple locations. The advantage of a good organisational and planning software is that you can pull all of it into one chart. Data is transformed into something [...]
Organisational Structure
3 Basic Types of Organisational Structure With the growth of any company the reporting structure must change. Three common systems of hierarchy have emerged among the companies we work with. We’ve listed them below with a brief explanation: 1. Functional A functional structure is simply one that divides a [...]
Using Org Charts to Power Success
Using Org Charts to Power Success A ubiquitous fixture of almost every company’s HR or administration department the organisational chart, or org chart as they are commonly known, are implemented with varying degrees of success. HR personnel often struggle with general purpose diagramming tools like Visio and PowerPoint and [...]
Understanding Turnover Rate
Understanding and Improving Turnover Rate A central challenge for the HR department of any organisation is to understand and optimise the turnover rate of employees. The costs involved is losing good employees are just too high to ignore. Managing churn goes beyond simply calculating the turnover rate and trying [...]
South West Business Expo
OfficeWork Software Presenting at the South West Business Expo 20th November Learn how Organisational Charting and Workforce Planning software lets you better manage and gain insights about your business. Close to 260 exhibitors and 3000 people are expected to attend the South West Business Expo on Wednesday 20th November 2019 at [...]
Origin of the Org Chart
Origin of the Organization Chart as a Tool of Business Management Joe Kolinger, Founder and CTO of OfficeWork Software, explores how through necessity the first organizational charts came to be and how they shaped business management today. Organizational charts today have a mixed reputation. While companies need them they [...]
Talent Hoarding
United Kingdom unemployment has dipped to the historically low level of 3.8 percent in 2019. A range of challenges come with this favorable employment environment including worker quality, job satisfaction and employee retention. In the competition for workers, companies can become so desperate for help that they neglect employee development. [...]
Data Integrity in HR Projects
HR Data Integrity for Organizational Change Projects OfficeWork Software has provided workforce planning and organisational change solutions for clients globally for over 15 years. We have worked on many different initiatives: mergers, spin-offs, delayering, downsizing and gearing for rapid growth. We have observed a persistent pattern of data integrity [...]
Gender Equality in the Workplace
Gender Equality in the Workplace A 2018 study by the Office for National Statistics showed that women currently make approximately 80% of men’s median hourly wage in the UK—the gender pay gap in 2018 was 17.9%. The same studies reveal that, in more skilled jobs, that gap is even [...]
