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“Personnel Director has successfully dragged our HR Deptartment from the stone age to the 21st Century. I’m most impressed that such an effective package can be so cost effective, I have spent many months searching for the catch & can't say I've found it.”
Gareth Brown, HR Manager, Baker Hughes.
Baker Atlas, part of the Baker Hughes Group, is an Oilfield Service Company providing geophysical measurements and data analysis services to oil and gas companies throughout the world. Baker Atlas has a diverse workforce of approximately 4,500 employees with more than 1,500 of these employees located in the "Eastern Hemisphere" throughout Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Gareth Brown, HR Manager for Baker Atlas Eastern Hemisphere, was actively involved in the company’s worldwide initiative to select a standard HR package for 25,000 employees worldwide. Gareth and the other HR managers chose Personnel Director, the Vizual Business Tools enterprise level HR administration solution. Personnel Director is currently operating in two sites and will be rolled out to another 15 sites worldwide before the end of the year.
Why choose Personnel Director? Of utmost importance was ease-of-use. According to Gareth, “the team found the system extremely intuitive, straightforward and user friendly. Non-IT experts were able to use the system almost immediately with minimum training. The software is easy to customize helping end users specify data or terminology, importing and exporting data is much easier than with our previous software. Technically it does ‘exactly what it says on the box’. I am most impressed that such an effective package can be so cost-effective - I have spent many months searching for the catch and can't say I've found it!”
In the short period following the implementation of Personnel Director, Baker Atlas has already seen numerous benefits. “For the first time ever, we have accurate data on our workforce. Our employees feel very comfortable knowing that the HR department has their up-to-date data and is working efficiently. Furthermore, we have been able to successfully introduce grading & salary into our management system, and can now efficiently keep important employee records on a company-wide, global basis. Finally, we have saved countless hours of work by using Personnel Director and functioning as one company instead of many people repeating the same work in our different markets. Personnel Director has taken us out of the stone age and brought us into the 21st century!”
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