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First: "ZTE is not planning any lay-offs this year...we can expect a graduate hiring spree."
1. Weasel-wording.
(a) Perhaps the ZTE's press department ("we") isn't planning any layoffs, but the upper execs may be doing so.
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Great article. Thanks… never heard of CN Lester before, but now I intend to go look into their work.
Wonderful article, and CN is possibly the most talented person I know
Go CN!!
I am of one degree of separation with zie lol =D.
Tremendous interview, CN is quite courageous!
And kudos to Pink News for highlighting the experiences of non-binary identified trans* and genderqueer people through this article.
Nice one CN :-) CN is truly talented (Nice one Paris too) :-)
Grateful for this – as is said in the article, there's still so little opportunity to read actual transfolk talking about their lives and experiences, rather than being the discussed side-show.
Excellent and illuminating interview: CS seems grounded and together. The kind of person I would love to meet and befriend.
Seen CN performing in RVT on Tuesday 8. March. Impressive and cool.
Interesting interview and article…
Thanks for that.
Great article, its so rare to see anything on genderqueer people in the media, and most people don't even know that genderqueers exist. Well done Pink News for publishing this, and to CN Lester for sharing their views.
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A wonderful interview. If only more people spoke up, and even more people shut up.
Amazing article, and really helpful for me.
I don't know how to identify myself.
I feel more comfortable saying I am bisexual, but to say I refuse to identify myself as fully male, fully female, or fully transgender…that's tough.
I like the German idea of 'Neuterum'. Gender neutral. I just like to forget about gender full stop and f*ck it off – just be me.
I like to sing any vocal voice category, operatic gender role, really – if only I felt it were ok to do so. the only ones I can't do, yet, are low tenor and below, and high soprano. Should I advertise as a high tenor on my CV…? I almost could.
I have been afraid of the classical music industry for a long time. Yet it is so refreshing to read you write about it containing the misfits of society. I was so afraid to come out at the conservatoire, which is stupid because the percentage of gay men in the performing arts industry must be so much higher than in other more masculine industries.
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I absolutly love being left-handed. Kids come up to me and their like "Wow, you're left-handed?" and I'm like "Yeah." and they go "Righties are always right." and I go "there's a reason why only a few people of left-handed. Its because they're special and have a special part to play in the world, unlike you (I just think that last part though)"
by Dovepawrocks on 5/18/2012 2:37:50 PM
Im a lefty and proud! im the most creative person in my family,when I was in regular school people were always saying im a really good friend and advice giver etc.Lefties rock!
by Super8FanGirl98 on 3/30/2012 3:51:15 PM
I know someone who ids ambidextrous, and my nana is a lefty, and the only person in my family that's a lefty!!
by happyone123 on 3/4/2012 12:27:09 PM
I'm ambidextrous and left handed naturally sooooo I am VERY special!!!
by phoebeloren00 on 2/9/2012 8:59:29 PM
I'm a righty, I'm okay with it but you lefties have a huge advantage, when you write in your binders the 3-rings don't get in your way, righties have to deal with it, lefties are lucky, not that I don't like being a righty oh and btw, again you lefties are lucky, you all have something naturally in common with Justin Bieber!!!!!!...okay now I'm jealous, lol
by clem10 on 1/21/2012 10:45:43 PM
I am a lefty and I am unique
by Ej410 on 1/13/2012 4:14:42 PM
im a leftie, yay!!!!
by hermionelover on 1/6/2012 8:47:56 PM
im a twin and im a righty but my sister is a leftie... and she is sorta ambidextrous.. because she broke her left wrist 4 years ago.
by icegal on 12/31/2011 10:06:36 AM
there's 80-some kids in my class and between 10 and 20 of them are lefties. i'm not...
by the_last_ninja on 12/27/2011 12:43:05 PM
lefty!! ya! my dads a lefty too and he says most famous artists are left handed, he was so geed he was offered a job by dc comics!!
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Rsskilarn, High Priest and second hand to Tlatoani
"Evil" often infests swamp. This tree thrives when the other plants wither under the presence of true Evil. However, this is not an evil plant, but a land healing one as nature attempts to reclaim its own.
On the muddy banks of the river deltas and the swamps they wait to wrap their prey in their crushing embrace.That is how they got their name.
...among the items identified was a dolphin-shaped bathtub of marble and porcelain, a winged-back, high-chair of teak and velvet studded with fire opals, the gear-thing contraption from the dungeon-laboratory of Dr. Bezemot, the oil portrait of the rubicund Madame Orundilde Tarwygg, and a strange item known only as the Last Candle.


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Russell Kirk's notion of conservatism rejects the ideological purity of some present practitioners. It stands for the concept of moral order and confidence expressed in the U.S. Constitution...
Russell Kirk's landmark book, The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot, was published 60 years ago.
TIME magazine devoted its entire book section to The Conservative Mind, which Kirk had originally written in 1952 as his doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland. Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Kenyon College, reviewed the book in The New York Times and called it ³brilliant, even eloquent.²
In contrast to the philosopher Descartes: I feel, therefore I am.
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that each human being has a more or less identical range of emotions. This is not so.
Just as each human individual is physically unique while fitting into a general physical shape (that usually, but not always, includes four limbs and an adult size of between 1.5 and 2.5 metres) so, too, the range and intensity of emotions felt by human beings varies from one individual to another.
"The list of people agreeing that drug abuse is a public health problem keeps getting longer and more prestigious. Does any thinking person still believe the drug war is working?" asked Major Neill Franklin (Ret.), executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Eliminating drug use is not possible and prohibition leads to mass incarceration, human rights abuses, a degradation of fundamental rights, corruption and violence.
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At Salem Spirit Of Life our main purpose is to help any and all who ask to find their spiritual truth, regardless of race gender, sexual orientation background or other church affiliations.
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Salem Spirit of Life was founded in February 2008 – holding our first public Worship Service on Easter Sunday in the basement of the MAPs Credit Union.
Life offers us choices and we cannot always know absolute outcomes.
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The divine energy of transcendental consciousness heals our nervous system of stresses, or karma, that we've accumulated in the past.
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Perhaps because it conflicts with two different ways in which we know the world. We know intuitively we are immortal beings, an essence deep within us is eternal. Our sense perceptions, though, tell us we die and cease to exist. We see that the person we knew is gone. The body lying there is not them at all.
Most people who seek forgiveness are scared of being held accountable for their behaviour. Most people who offer forgiveness are scared of holding people accountable for their behaviour.
Certain religious traditions, including Christianity, emphasise the importance of forgiveness. I want to explain why forgiveness is misconceived and, therefore, a bad idea.
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All five starters scored in double figures for top-seeded Delaware (24-9), which will play William & Mary matchup in Monday's championship game. Jarvis Threatt stuffed the stat sheet with 19 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and four steals, Devon Saddler tallied 16 points and nine assists, while Carl Baptiste and Kyle Anderson netted 14 and 10 points, respectively.
For fifth-seeded Northeastern (11-21), Scott Eatherton logged 20 points and eight rebounds and Reggie Spencer came off the bench to register 18 points and eight boards.
Delaware built up a 14-point lead less than eight minutes into the game, but it led by just two, 39-37, heading into intermission. The Blue Hens shot 44.8 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes, compared to 40 percent for the Huskies.
After briefly falling behind early in the second half, the Blue Hens pulled away with a 35-10 run that lasted more than 10 minutes.
Delaware scored 20 points off of 15 Northeastern turnovers.
There was quite a bit of hitting on the field at Milan Puskar Stadium last weekend, but almost as much action took place in the streets just outside in the hours following West Virginia's upset of visiting Baylor.
Jamie McMurray claimed the pole for the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 -- the first race in the Eliminator Round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship -- by beating Joey Logano in Friday's qualifying at Martinsville Speedway.
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Nagarajegowda sets sights on Rio 2016
Indian high jumper wants to bring back gold for his country at next Paralympics
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- Silver medalist India's Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda makes a jump in the men's high jump F42 classification final during the athletics competition at the 2012 Paralympics, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in London.
Dubai: He was born on the same day India became a Republic. No wonder, Girisha Nagarajegowda feels that extra tinge of patriotism when it comes to his country.
And then there are former Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's motivational words on "every Indian nurturing a dream for his country".
"I was born to excel for my country. What has happened in the past belongs to the past. It is the future that inspires me to give off my best for India," Nagarajegowda told Gulf News on a brief tour to Dubai along with his coach Satyanarayana where he addressed students of the JSS International School in Al Barsha late last week.
Born on January 26, 1988 with an impairment on his left leg, the Bangalore lad shot into the limelight when he clinched a silver medal in the men's high jump — the only one for the 10-member Indian squad at this summer's London Paralympics Games.
"I don't really think of what I have achieved. That is past for me. What I need now is focus on the future and ensure I get a gold medal at the next Games in Rio de Janeiro," he said.
First taste of success
Nagarajegowda's entry into sports was more by coincidence than something that was pre-planned. His first taste of success came when he won a prize at the state-level sports meet in Dharwad, Karnataka when he competed with normal sportsmen. That gave him a taste to dream the bigger dream and set him up in pursuit of his ambition of flying the Indian flag high.
His first achievement at the international level came when he won a bronze at the Junior World Championships for the Disabled in Ireland in 2006 after which he took another bronze medal at the Mysore University sports meet. This was followed by a gold medal at the national high jump championship followed by another two gold medals at athletic meets in Kuwait and Malaysia.
"I was decided on what I wanted to do, and now after this silver medal in London, I am certain I want a full-time career in sports," he added.
One of the effects of his Paralympics medal is the awareness of the Paralympic Movement in India. "And I am certain our squad will go up to 50 athletes [compared to only 10 athletes in London] for Rio," Nagarajegowda said.
On his part, Nagarajegowda has already commenced his preparations with Rio 2016 in mind, although he has the IPC World Championships in Paris next year, followed by the Asian Games in Incheong, South Korea in 2014.
"It's just one training session in the morning at the moment, but slowly I will shift to my normal schedule by December," Nagarajegowda said.
"The other competitions along the way are meant to help me tune myself towards the bigger goal. The dream is to come back with a gold medal for India from Brazil in four years' time," he added.
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For the prisoners at San Quentin State Prison, life-sentences are the reality of every day life. It is not often that prisoners get the opportunity to use alternative medicine to deal with common ailments they encounter behind bars such as, depression, anxiety and pain.
Dr. George Goodman and His Legacy to Logan University
Those who knew him called him a revered leader, a visionary and one of chiropractic's biggest advocates. George A. Goodman, DC, Logan University's sixth and longest-serving president, passed away on Sept. 9. He was 70 years old.
Sports Science: What's in That Drink?
Athletes frequently ask me what the best liquid is to drink during exercise – water or a sports drink? Water provides the necessary hydration, but unfortunately, it lacks the key nutrients to aid in performance and recovery.
The Tao of Gender
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Uncle Sam Needs You (Part 2)
Where chiropractic care has been used in the military health services, it has been deemed very successful.
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By now, most of you have probably heard that the American Heart Association recently published a statement regarding the association between cervical dissection (CD) and cervical manipulative therapy (CMT).
The Case for Immunization
As long as I have been a chiropractor, I have seen many in this profession oppose vaccinations. Indeed, it has often been taken as a "given" that to be a principled chiropractor requires a curmudgeon's willingness to hold aloft that banner of opposition.
The Wonders of Light Therapy: An Interview with Wes Burwell
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The pelvis can be considered a ring that can misalign on the sacrum rotating around the long axis. The following is a description of an adjustment that helps to correct sacroiliac rotation around the long axis.
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Lime Jello on Morphine
Taste is in the eyes... actually the mouth... of the beholder. My food preferences have changed, lightening from the food of my youth. My parents loved heavy eastern European cuisine and I loved it as a child. Now I enjoy leaner, healthier whole foods.
Essential Orthopedic Testing: Tests That Involve Standing on One Leg
Since these tests have a common mechanism of performance (standing on one leg), there are differential diagnostic concerns during testing. The tests cannot be completely isolated from each other for performance.
Commingling Money: 12 Questions for the ACA About the CHAMP / NCLAF Merger
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Communication 101: Please Explain Yourself!
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Jingei Diagnosis: An Effective and Powerful Diagnostic
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Exploring the Therapeutic Value of CranioSacral Therapy
By John Upledger, DO, OMM
Throughout the course of human history, great discoveries frequently have met with resistance before acceptance. Today, we take for granted that the world is round. Yet people in the 15th century not only believed the world was flat, but that anyone who sailed beyond its limits would vanish off the edge of the earth.
The exploration of the human body has proven no different.While no one questions the value of the cardiovascular and respiratory rhythms in modern medicine, there was a time when their very existence was debated worldwide. Even now, medical approaches to these systems are as varied as medical practitioners themselves.
For more than 30 years, I have been a proponent of using the rhythm of a different body system to evaluate and improve health and well-being. I have dedicated my life to teaching the therapeutic value of the craniosacral system to health care professionals worldwide, physicians and nonphysicians alike. How can many different types of practitioners benefit from understanding one physiological system? And what evidence supports the value of therapy focused on this system? Please allow me to explain.
While the craniosacral system has only been scientifically defined within the last three decades, it has existed since the beginning of time as we know it in every human being and animal possessing a brain and spinal cord. Forming in the womb and functioning until death, it extends from the bones of the skull, face and mouth (the cranium) through a system of fluid hydraulics and membranes to the lower end of the spine (the sacrum). Because the craniosacral system surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord, restrictions in its membranes can directly affect all aspects of central nervous system performance, from motor function to emotions. Fortunately, such problems can be detected and corrected by a skilled therapist using simple methods of palpation.
The History of CranioSacral Therapy
The roots of CranioSacral Therapy date back to the early 1900s, when William Sutherland, DO, was struck by the unusual idea that the bones of the skull were structured to allow for movement. For more than 20 years, he explored this concept, performing makeshift experiments on himself with helmet-like devices designed to impose variable pressures on different parts of his head. His wife then recorded personality changes he displayed in response to different pressure applications.
In the early 1930s, Sutherland published the first article about his work in the Minnesota Osteopathic Journal under a pseudonym. Based on his experiments, he developed a system of examination and treatment for the bones of the skull that today is known as cranial osteopathy. With some patient success, Sutherland organized a small group of osteopaths who studied cranial work with him. Because so little was known about how it worked, and the results at times seemed miraculous, his system acquired an understandably esoteric reputation.
Personally, I knew very little of this history when I observed the rhythmic movement of the craniosacral system firsthand in 1970. I was assisting a surgery on a man named Delbert and had only one job to do: hold the membrane that surrounds the spinal cord still while the surgeon removed a calcium deposit from its surface. As simple as it sounds, I couldn't do it. The membrane kept pulsing at a rate of about eight beats per minute, which didn't correspond to his breathing or heart rate, both of which were being monitored. Delbert made it through surgery, and I discovered that the pulsing motion I witnessed was new to all of the doctors there, not just me. We didn't know it at the time, but what we were seeing was the rhythm of cerebrospinal fluid pumping through the craniosacral system. The system itself hadn't even been named yet.
A few years later, I attended a workshop on cranial osteopathy developed by Dr. Sutherland. The course focused primarily on the bones of the skull and the fact that they weren't fused as doctors had been taught in medical schools, where anatomy was studied using embalmed and calcified cadavers. Instead, Sutherland's material demonstrated that skull bones continue to move throughout life. While this phenomenon has since been widely documented (see references for examples), widespread acceptance has typically been a slower evolution.
So here we were at the seminar, all palpating the motion of the bones, when people started asking about this rhythm they were feeling. That's when I realized I had seen the driving force behind these pulsations during Delbert's surgery. I put that episode together with what I was feeling now with my own hands. They seemed linked, yet no one knew how. That lack of information enticed me to continue developing my palpation skills and experiment with different methods of connecting with the rhythm of the craniosacral system. Yet instead of focusing on the skull bones as Sutherland and other cranial osteopaths had, I was continually drawn to work with the membranes of the system itself.
News of my work spread, and in 1975 the Osteopathic College of Michigan State University invited me to lead the world's first task force to study and verify (or debunk) the mobility of cranial sutures and bones. It was an exhilarating time. For the next five years, I led a team of anatomists, physiologists, biophysicists and bioengineers, all testing the potential for performing therapy on the craniosacral system.
Together we conducted research, much of it published, that formed the basis for the modality I went on to develop and name CranioSacral Therapy. Yet we continued to take a different approach than the osteopaths who came before us. Again, instead of focusing on the bones of the cranium, we were working with the fluids and membranes of the system within the skull and spinal canal. By blazing this new path, we finally were able to explain the function of the craniosacral system. We then went on to demonstrate how it could be used to assess and relieve numerous health problems involving the brain and spinal cord.
How CranioSacral Therapy Is Performed
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, noninvasive approach to whole-body health. Generally using about 5 grams of pressure (roughly the weight of a nickel), the practitioner evaluates the craniosacral system by testing for the ease of motion and rhythm of cerebrospinal fluid. Simple manual techniques are then used to release restrictions in fasciae, membranes and any other tissues that influence the craniosacral system.
Experienced clinicians are able to feel the craniosacral motion anywhere on an individual's fully-clothed body. Valuable information can quickly be gained by palpating the rhythm for rate, amplitude, symmetry and quality. Lack of symmetry, for instance, can help localize a pathological problem that might relate to musculoskeletal dysfunctions, inflammatory responses, adhesions, trauma, surgical scars, vascular accidents and many other conditions. As the asymmetry is eliminated and normal symmetrical craniosacral motion is restored, the problem is often resolved or in the process of being resolved.
Consider, too, that fascia is a slightly mobile sheath of connective tissue that runs continuously from head to toe, surrounding every somatic and visceral structure in the body. This fascial system is in constant motion, corresponding to the craniosacral rhythm by both direct connections and common osseous anchorings. With this in mind, it's easy to see how loss of tissue mobility in one area can be used to trace the location of the disease process that caused the original lack of mobility.
Ultimately, CranioSacral Therapy focuses on solving physiological problems at their source by using the individual's inherent self-corrective mechanisms. It has been shown over and over again, in thousands of cases, that it enhances general health, reduces accumulated stress, strengthens central nervous system function and improves resistance to disease.
I encourage you to continue to explore this therapy's potential for improving health, well-being and quality of life. Let your proof be in your results. And if you're faced with skepticism for your efforts, take heart. You might well be ahead of your time.
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The Indian retail sector has finally realised the importance of work-force management solution and its effectiveness. Back-end logistics have always been considered a major challenge in India. This is where the likes of Kronos have enabled retailers like Croma in India to function efficiently with their expertise in handling the work force. EFYTimes spoke to James Thomas, country head, Kronos India, as he elaborates on the varied technicalities of the brands profile and highlights the importance of effective management solutions.
What is Kronos all about and how many retail clients do you have across the globe?
Kronos is synonymous to operational HR. We have been in this business for more than 35 years and the retail sector contributes around 20 to 22 percent to our global revenue. More than 50 to 60 of the top 100 retailers have implemented our solutions.
Tell us about the latest workforce management solutions that you have deployed at Croma?
Workforce management is a single solution. There can be different dimensions to how you manage people. So what you see in time and absence are two dimensions, there are also other dimensions. When someone walks into a Croma Store, for instance, it's a high-touch environment, where customer experience really makes a difference. First layer is regarding footfall - who walks in, what he buys. We refer to this as the potential conversion rate.
Now if he walks in to buy a 32 inch screen but goes out with a 64 inch screen, that's what is called an average transaction size going up.
These are critical measures of customer experience. Companies need the right kind of employees at the right time, at the right place. It is important that employees are properly trained and they spend more customer facing time. So time is one dimension. Second is employee absence- where employees take leave and don't even bother to inform the employer. It can be detrimental to the business. The third dimension, which is the most critical is scheduling. We help businesses manage all these dimensions effectively.
Could you define the entire process of work force management in detail?
For Kronos, workforce management is all about real time 360 degree view around these dimensions, which make things happen in a retail store. How well are you managing the customers, how well you are doing your business, what is the customer experience you are offering- all these aspects are inter-related to the 360 degree view on how engaged are your employees in achieving these objectives.
These days with companies opening multiple stores, store managers actually run the stores like CEO. It is pretty much a decentralised store operation that you will find at every retail outlet. The manager takes care of the entire show right from the time employees come, their absence, placing them at the right places, and managing the sales. Hence, he is mostly consumed in all these operations, which ultimately means that he does not even spend 5 per cent of his time in meeting customers. He is glued to the back office, figuring these things out. What Kronos has done in the first phase at Croma is that we have tried to simplify this process in two ways. One is to ensure that Croma across the country, which today has 15 locations and 75 stores has a centralised view to what's going on across the country.
Not only for these current stores, but as they add more stores it is extended to them as well- it is like plug and play of getting visibility of what's going on from peoples dimension perspective.
Then, centralising the entire dimension of people management even at the operational store front.
You have been talking about dimensions. Can you enlighten us about the processes involved?
The first dimension is automation to gain a centralised view so that things can be planned better, whether it's the operations team, HR leadership or the business leadership itself. They have a much better view because people in the stores are the ones who make the difference. They are the people who are meeting customers and making the sales happen.
The second dimension, which currently we are enabling, is to get some basic level of scheduling in. The basic level of scheduling is to get a simple pattern based schedule or how the shifts run so that you have a view on people's movement.
Placing the right people at the right time has a lot of other constraints too, which happens in the second phase of what we call retail optimisation. At this point in time we have not gone into optimisation.
We want to get the first building blocks ready so it's a basic scheduling in terms of knowing how they are today placing people at the basic level- both at the employee level and at the store level. From store manager upwards, they can very easily, in a few minutes, schedule and view these things and change the schedules accordingly.
Once these things are connected, it slashes the need for manual reconciliation and consolidation where people end up spending a lot of time sitting in front of papers and excel sheets to review. With our intervention, there is minimum manual intervention on a daily basis and reconciliation and approval happens in real time, so that you are not left with pending piled data at the end of the month.
How does Croma benefit from this entire mechanism?
This makes for centralised visibility and simplified processes. Functions take much lesser time enabling better customer handling experiences for employees with customers. Our next phase would be optimisation.
So when does the next phase start?
We are already in talks with the company about moving onto the next phase. This phase we talked about is already in place at the Croma stores live.
In India, the retail sector is not yet exposed to this sort of solution. Companies are still in their early phase. Moreover, Indian employees are also not used to these sort of things, which actually help them. Employees need time to get used to the change.
One thing I would like to highlight is its also about employment engagement and the technology aspect around this in terms of how we are enabling engagement in the new-age workforce.
Today, a worker who comes into a retail store and works is possibly a 20 year old or 25 year old. He wants to be informed about every minute information available. So, the way he works, he does not have the patience to call-up helpline or wait for the information to come to him. Employees nowadays look for instant engagement and Kronos today, with these sort of solutions is increasing that level of instant engagement. It enables them to know things with a click.
When you talk about workforce management, is this one solution, wherein you can pick and choose the kind of modules that are relevant to a business?
We are in the human capital management domain. It is all about managing people in a better manner. So in that space, one part of the solution addresses the historical point of view of employees, which means, we have the entire background of each and every employee working with the company. So the entire area of core employee data is stored in historical applications, which are a part of the process.
There are applications like payroll, which churns out the pay-slip for you. They do computation on your monthly working data.
The real-time operational dimension, which happens everyday in a retail store is what workforce management all about.
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IFA 2014: LG Launches 34-Inches Curved Monitor
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IFA 2014: Intel Launches First Core M Range Of Processors
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MWC 2014: Tablet Lets People Feel Textures On Its Screen
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MWC 2014: 4K Android Tablet Games To Kill Consoles, iPad
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MWC 2014: This Vodafone Backpack Helps Get Network In Disaster Situations
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MWC 2014: Wilocity Chipset To Bring 'Lightening' Speed To Mobile Phones
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MWC 2014: Samsung Introduces Octacore, Hexacore Chipsets
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