Queensland rethinks shared services

Queensland Health, the Department of Education and Training and one other organisation will share responsibility for delivering the US' IT following an external review of its shared services model, states IT News.

The state government accepted all recommendations of PricewaterhouseCoopers' review of its whole-of-Government IT provider CorpTech.

The review was commissioned in the aftermath of an over-time, over-budget Queensland Health payroll implementation that was blamed for more than 35 000 payroll anomalies.

Looking to manage all 300 000 employees across its entire enterprise, the US Department of Veterans Affairs has selected a workforce management solution from Kronos, the company revealed in a press release, according to TMC Net

Systems Made Simple, a service-disabled veteran-owned IT service provider, was the main contractor for this project and Kronos partnered as a sub-contractor to further offer value-added technical services to the department.

As part of its department-wide financial and payroll modernisation and centralisation programme, the Department of Veterans Affairs selected SMS and the Kronos webTA solution.

Professionals trained to use HR software when dealing with the workforce might have a long road ahead of them as the psychological effects of the government's Comprehensive Spending Review promise to stick around for a long time, says Sage.

This is according to industry body the Institute for Employment Study, commenting on figures recently released by the Forum of Private Business.

The study performed by the forum - which works to identify and resolve issues in the private sector workforce and jobs market - revealed that many individuals are anxious about their positions.