South Florida Employees Reduce Work Hours by 15% to Care for ParentsWritten by Olga Brunner
Seventeen percent (17%) of caregivers quit their jobs to provide care for aging family members, and another 15% reduce their work hours to assist their loved ones. This shocking loss of employee productivity is hitting South Florida businesses very hard as more Boomers have senior parents who require caregiving.The impact of Elder Care issues on corporate America will continue to grow as our elderly population increases: •Employees juggling job responsibilities with care giving are a reality in workplace of today and future. Workers are torn between demands of their job and ability to provide quality care to their relative. •One out of three American workers is also managing care of an older relative. •Loss of productivity resulting from time off to care for an aging relative is estimated at $6100 per employee per year. •Caregiver stress accounts for a 27% increase in use of company health insurance benefits. To stop this workforce hemorrhaging South Florida companies are looking for methods to provide assistance in caregiving to employees to keep them on job and productive, while being sensitive to needs of employee.
| | PRONTO North America ERP FaxMail Provides Professional DocumentsWritten by Thomas Cutler
The ability to fax or e-mail any PRONTO-Xi document or report directly to customers, suppliers, colleagues directly from ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system dramatically improves productivity. According to Tom Verzi, Director of Marketing for Minnesota-based ERP leader, “FaxMail immediately drives cost savings with large reductions in communication and administration costs.”The PRONTO-Xi FaxMail solution, including a flexible document transmission management system, allows manufacturers and distributors ability to monitor status of every fax and e-mail sent. It becomes an indispensable tool for any manufacturing, distribution, service, or retail concern where fast, hassle-free communication is central to business operation. The Key Benefits of PRONTO-Xi FaxMail: •Reduce Postage Costs •Reduce Faxing costs •Reduce Labor costs in folding, addressing, and posting documents •Reduce time spend at fax machine •Highly professional-looking documents, incorporating logs and other layout elements •Easy to use as printing within PRONTO-Xi A PRONTO-Xi user of FaxMail noted that it has eliminated need for staff to mail out 1500 statements per month and approximately 200 invoices per day. This is has reduced postage costs significantly and saved at least five working days per moth in staff folding envelopes.
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