Microsoft’s Bizspark site featues HR Locker as startup of the day today. This is a fantastic promotion for HR Locker helping us to reach a truly global audience. We’re delighted, even if the audio and video is a bit patchy
I posted on the HR Locker blog that the Bizspark team are genuinely fantastic [...]
Assemblypoint secured seed funding to improve products and enter new markets.
According to Article 3 of the Electronic Signature Law of China (2004):
“The parties concerned may agree to use or not to use electronic signature or data message in such documentations as contracts and other documents, receipts and vouchers in civil activities.
The legal effect of a document, with regard to which the parties concerned have agreed [...]
The National Employment Rights Authority released its quarterly report yesterday. It conducted 18,273 calls, interviews, and inspections of Irish employers. Here are the summary results…
I’ve heard of some strange clauses appearing in contracts of employment. I’m going to try to keep a list of them on this blog. Here’s the starting point:
We’re in the process of porting AssemblyPoint to Windows Azure. Why? It allows a small Web company to scale massively without incurring large costs at the early stages. Additionally, it improves security and data integrity. In essence it removes most of the headaches associated with hosting.
The good news is that the process, so far, has [...]
Low cost, easy to use Web apps have created a sea change in how small businesses operate. In case there is any lingering doubt, consider the following: Freshbooks.com, an online invoicing, time tracking and expense service has signed up over 1,000,000 users since launch in 2004. 37signals, a provider of online collaboration tools has signed [...]
We’ve just gone live with our first public beta. Sign up is by request via our web site. We’re in the process of putting our first public customers live. It’s an exciting time and the feedback has been very positive. We’re looking to add more customers especially in the United States for our 60 day [...]
The average numbers of sick, or absentee, days for an employee in Ireland is 6 per year, according to ISME. That equates to about 1.1m sick days per year in the SME sector alone and costs employers about €1 billion. Apparently, employers reckon 83% of unauthorised absences are bogus.
After six months of development we finally launched our first beta of AssemblyPoint. It’s currently in beta with a large Japanese games company’s London subsidiary. They’re using it to track contractor hours, and manage staff holidays, absences and annual leave requests.
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