Polycultural Immigrant & Community Service Selects HR Systems Strategies

Patrick — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:43:34 +0000

POLYCULTURAL IMMIGRANT & COMMUNITY SERVICE SELECTS HR SYSTEMS STRATEGIES

Social services agency chooses info:HR HRIS application to reduce the cost and effort of HR administration

Toronto, ON, February 21, 2013 - Following a thorough and very competitive analysis, Polycultural Immigrant & Community Services (PICS) has selected info:HR from HR Systems Strategies (HRSS) as their HRIS system.

PICS is a non-profit, community-based agency assisting newcomers in the settlement and integration process. PICS provides services across the Greater Toronto Area.

“PICS is a dynamic and service-focused multicultural and multiracial organization that works with all immigrant communities in its seven locations across the GTA.” stated Slavek Suszek, Director of Finance and Administration at PICS.

“In assessing solutions from both Canadian- and US-based HR software vendors, we looked primarily for HR software that would integrate with our accounting package, upgrade our HR functionality, and bring efficiencies by adding employee self-serve option and electronic timecard processing.”

Andy Staniewski, President of HRSS added, “We are thrilled to welcome PICS to our info:HR client base. PICS is doing amazing work with the local communities and we are happy to assist their efforts by streamlining their HR processes.”

Polycultural Immigrant & Community Services (PICS) is a non-profit community based agency assisting newcomers in the settlement and integration process. PICS provides services across the Greater Toronto Area.

PICS reflects the cultural diversity of the Greater Toronto Area as it provides services in English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Croatian, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Punjabi, Pushtu, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Ukrainian and Urdu.

PICS serves clients in more than 30 languages in six different campus locations across the GTA (Greater Toronto Area).

HR Systems Strategies Inc. (HRSS) develops, implements, and maintains info:HR, a robust, general-purpose Human Resources Information System (HRIS). info:HR provides clients at over 300 organizations in 12 countries worldwide with user-friendly, robust and adaptable software solutions for today’s human capital resource management challenges. The core info:HR HRIS software system integrates with web modules to provide employee / manager self serve and online time-sheet entry capabilities.

The info:HR HRIS software also interfaces with other operational systems such as payroll and time and attendance. info:HR is an easy-to-use, cost-effective and adaptable HRIS software solution for today’s human capital resource management challenges. HRIS customers range from under 50 to over 10,000 employees in single and multiple locations across North America and around the world.

HRSS helps Human Resources organizations improve their HR operations and keep their total operating costs down. Small/medium businesses, not for profits, governments, healthcare organizations and others throughout Canada are reducing the cost and effort of HR administration by using info:HR.

For more information, please contact Andy Staniewski at 416-599-4747 or Patrick Batty (pmbmediaWORKS) at 519 804-3683.

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