Extended Summer Holiday, Soaring Sickness and National Staffing Shortages Creates the Perfect September Storm

With an estimated 50% more holiday to take in 2021 than 2020, the average UK employee still has 17 days of leave to book this year September sees a 53% increase of week-long holiday bookings on pre-pandemic 2019 in the midst of resourcing crisis The Logistics and Delivery industry is overworked, with 35% less leave than the national average as it approaches the festive season, and sickness rates 139% higher than average Nottingham, UK, 23rd September 2021: Data from global absence management provider, Edays has shed light on the perfect…

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Navenio raises £9m for hospital workforce AI platform

– Navenio’s efficiency-boosting technology doubles team throughput in critical environments like hospitals – Infrastructure-free technology provides ‘right person, right time, right place’ localisation service indoors, where GPS doesn’t work – Technology critical for patient flow challenge as hospitals re-open for ‘business as usual’ post the Covid-19 peak The healthcare scale-up behind a location-based platform which has been shown to double team throughput, today announced £9m in series A funding. Navenio, a spin-out of Oxford University, provides infrastructure-free indoor location solutions, the equivalent of GPS for use indoors, to power a…

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AI-powered gig economy startup celebrates 1 million hours of work

London, UK – 3rd June 2019. Four years since its first shift, flexible workforce platform, Catapult, is celebrating 1 million hours worked by its experienced retail and hospitality staff. The milestone was reached by Sherehan Abdelmoti, a retail and events-trained candidate, during her shift at Clarks’ Marble Arch store on Oxford Street. Abdelmoti, who joined the platform in September 2018, has worked a total of 219 shifts with Catapult, 186 of those with Clarks. Catapult co-founder, Oli Johnson, said: “The traditional part-time job falls short on its main promise to…

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Spectralink Drives Mobile Workforce Productivity with the Introduction of Versity Enterprise Smartphones

Purpose-built for enterprises, Versity features best in class voice and data quality, application integration and durability with a consumer smartphone look and feel LONDON, UK – March 7, 2018 – Spectralink (https://www.spectralink.com), a leader in enterprise mobility solutions, today announced the introduction of the Versity enterprise smartphone. Versity empowers users with a next-generation mobility solution featuring superior voice quality, broad application integration and proven reliability in a slim, durable, lightweight device. Enterprise mobility solutions serve as a catalyst for driving business optimization initiatives such as workforce productivity and increased customer…

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Paradigm Housing Delivers Digital Transformation with LANSA’s Low-Code Development Platform

St. Albans, UK – June 6, 2017 – LANSA today announced that its customer, Paradigm Housing, has delivered the next phase of its Digital Transformation Programme – a Customer Portal and a mobile workforce solution – using LANSA’s Low-Code Development Platform. These elements form part of a broader Digital Transformation drive towards customer self-service, efficiency improvements and costs reduction. These latest additions integrate tightly with Paradigm’s existing housing management system, also built using LANSA. By choosing to build in-house, using LANSA’s single-language solution, Paradigm has been able to create the…

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