One thing that makes TempWorks unique

As you walk into the TempWorks office you will see something which you don't see at most companies. Most companies have art work or posters of some sort on the walls. You will notice a picture of each of our employees on the wall. Not a professional portrait, but one which has been hand drawn.

The person in the picture is Gregg Dourgarian, CEO of TempWorks.

Happy Anniversary, Sarmad!

Yesterday was the first anniversary for Sarmad Abbas at TempWorks. Sarmad is currently working in our support department.

Sarmad is a graduate of Minnesota State University: Mankato. He graduated with a degree in computer engineering.

Congratulations Sarmad! Thanks for all of your hard work over the last year.

TempWorks Time Clocks are cutting costs at Penmac Personnel Services

Penmac Personnel Services has certainly taken one of our newest products and run with it. John Penny, Russ Andrews, and Mark Gullet from Penmac have all been instrumental in installing 15 of TempWorks Time Clocks out at their customers in the last nine months.

"The TempWorks Time Clock is a big step forward in the weakest area of staffing - getting accurate data into the system for payroll processing."

Mark Gullett, Penmac Personnel Services

I spoke with Mark earlier this week and he said he needed four additional clocks for a few other customers.

TempWorks Time Clocks are seamlessly integrated with our Employee and Customer WebCenter portals to provide real-time data for Penmac Personnel Serivces' employees and customers. This data is also processed by the Penmac's accounting staff who know their payroll and billing will be 100% accurate as there is no importing of data.

Penmac Personnel Services has been a customer of TempWorks since 2005. They are a premier supplier of staffing and human resource services that has been placing talented people in the right positions for 20 years. Over a half-million people have walked through Penmac’s doors seeking employment, education and career training. More than 600 business clients depend upon Penmac every day to keep their businesses productive and competitive.

Penmac is a certified, woman-owned business that operates 35 offices in five states. The firm was named as one of the Top 50 organizations for Diversity by DiversityBusiness.com.

TempWorks Enterprise...any color under the rainbow

Recently the TempWorks sales and training departments have been very busy showing off the new look TempWorks Enterprise. Each TempWorks Enterprise user has the ability to choose any color for the background of their application. Our customers and prospects continue to say great things about the email integration, favorites, ease of navigation, and searching capabilities. But the comments I continue to hear the most about is how it looks. Yes, even in staffing software, looks matter.

I know I haven't talked enough about the TempWorks development team. They all do a phenomenal job. Our customers, prospects, and competition are noticing all of your hard work.

Thanks Mike

I just wanted to take a moment to thank Mike Nigon for all of his work and dedication to TempWorks. Mike has decided to take a position with another company. Mike has worked for our team for just under three years, most recently as our assistant support center manager.

I have enjoyed working with Mike over the years. Our customers have also had a lot of good things to say about Mike during my customer visits. Mike, we certainly wish you the best the future has to offer.

TempWorks Sales Team

This week our sales team was all able to meet all in the same place. Rich Peterson, who lives in Georgia, was at the TempWorks corporate office to spend some time with the sales team (and the rest of our staff).

Rich Peterson has been part of the TempWorks sales team for almost four years. He has been in the staffing industry for over ten years. He is our Regional Sales Manager for southern half of the United States.

Casey Kraus is another one of our Sales Managers. He has been working for TempWorks for about two years and currently manages the northern states. Many of our customers and prospect have commented on Casey's enthusiasm and energy.

Mark Baratto is our Executive Vice President and he assists our sales team on a daily basis. Mark is very passionate about helping others. He started working for TempWorks in 2004. He left for a little while, and then returned back to our team about six months ago. Welcome back, Mark.

TempWorks congratulates Lofton Staffing on their 30 year anniversary

TempWorks would like to join in the celebration of Lofton Staffing who is celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year.

Lofton Staffing has many offices in Louisiana and Texas. They serve many industries including: financial, legal, medical, industrial, oil and gas, as well as security.

Lofton has been a customer of TempWorks for over ten years. They utilize almost all of our products including the TempWorks WebCenter, DocCenter, and Disaster Recovery to name a few.

They have a great team. I especially have enjoyed working with their President, Bart Lofton, and their TempWorks super-users, Leah Viator and Greg Stenberg. I have had the pleasure of working with Lofton for the past 10 years as they were one of my first software installations at TempWorks.

Congratulations Lofton Staffing on all of your past success. TempWorks wishes you all the best the future has to offer.

Reminder: Better and faster communication with your customers happens by using the Phone

Email, text messages, pictures, facebook, twitter, and internet all at your fingertips. Any time of the day or night. We live in an information age, which is awesome. I love the freedom it provides.

I am posting as a reminder that sometimes just using your phone to make a call, especially to your customers, is the best form of communication.

I see this more and more frequently. People are hiding behind their email. They continue to banter in these long email conversations back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, you get the idea. Just pick up the phone, please.

A few highlights at TempWorks in February

February saw TempWorks hit the road. David Dourgarian, Casey Kraus, and Cory Hintz were visiting customers and prospects on the east coast and Midwest. David continues to be very instrumental in bringing in business for our payroll processing and funding division.

TempWorks formed a new partnership with Trak-1. Trak-1 is a nation-wide provider of background checks. TempWorks is very excited about this new service we will be able to provide. We will continue to keep our customers informed about this partnership. Nice job Rich Peterson and Mark Baratto for putting this together.

A few other highlights:

• Our development team continues to work on our Enterprise product.
• Our TempWorks select customers were updated to our latest software release
  
• Our implementation team continues to work on new installations and upgrades.
  
• Sairah Tran, Alisha Arnold, and Melanie Kramer have been working overtime discussing advantages of our new product upgrades with our customers.
  
• Our tax department has been in contact with all of our customers regarding the new stimulus package tax updates.
• Gregg Dourgarian continues to work on helping our customers rethink the whole client/candidate relationship with a Marketing 2.0 approach to inbound marketing, search engine optimization, amongst other things. You can check out one of his Staffing Talk blog discussions about it here.
  
• Anniversaries for Kevin Prow and Dan Brandel.
• TempWorks welcomes Colin Stoerzinger and Laura Baratto to our team.
  

Another travel essential

Last month I had written about a couple travel essentials. The things I mentioned all had to do with electronics. This one is the suitcase.

Yesterday I had stopped by the Men's Wearhouse to pick up a couple things for the staffing industry's executive forum which is happening in Miami in a couple weeks. I was introduced to the SkyRoll bag which allows a business traveler the ability to roll up suits so they don't wrinkle as much. I am looking forward to trying it out.