]po[ Human Resources Module

The ]po[ HR module bundles a range of services around employees and freelancers. The HR services include:

All of these services have been developed under the paradigms of "employee self service" and "extended company".

Employee Self Service Paradigm

... means that employees (and freelancers) should get in charge of managing HR processes themsef wherever possible, leading to reduced administration costs and increased service.

Extended Company Paradigm

The availability of the Internet reduces the imporance of location and physical presence. As a result "virtual teams" emerge with members from different corporate offices or even freelancers and offshore participants. This virtualization requires external talent to work together with the employees and customer staff.

Unified Employee File

The "employee file" brings together all information about an employee such as:

Access to these information requires a number of "privileges" which can be flexilby assigned to employees and employee groups.

Additionally, there is special "public" information that allows an employee to present himself to the public. This public information is indexed by the ]po[ search engine.

Employee Payroll Information

Payroll captures all costs derived from staff employees. Payroll information is being used by the Timesheet Management module to calculate the real costs of employee participation in projects.

However, ]project-open[ normally doesn't generate payroll documentation, because these documents vary too much between countries and companies.

Travel Costs

This modules allows employees to take care themselves of travel expenses. Please see the description of this functionality in the finance module.

"Portraits" and Distributed Offices

]project-open[ improves the collaboration between employees in distributed offices by providing corporate "news" and a "portrait component" that facilitate communication within the company. These measures increase the knowledge about the members of distributed offices and lowers communication barriers.

The component shows a different employee every time the ]project-open[ homepage is reloaded.

Freelance Skill Database

The freelance skill database contains a list of freelancers together with their skills, contact and contracting information . This database is useful if your organization relies heavily participation of freelancers and contract worker, such as translation agencies and certain IT organizations.

Skill Claim
Eco High 
Com Medium
Law High
Loc High
Tec-Gen Medium
  A sample freelace skill:
Subject area specialization in
the translation sector.

Freelance Recruiting "Pipeline"

The recruiting pipeline is a configurable sequence of steps during the recruitment process of freelancers and contract workers, particularly useful for translation agencies and certain IT organizations.

Knowledge Management

Please see the description of the KM module.

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