Hands-on partnership provides a complete end-to-end workforce scheduling solution to reduce absenteeism and ensure health and safety compliance

London UK - 10th January 2008 Leading international shiftwork research and consulting firm, CIRCADIAN™, announced today a strategic partnership with Rostima, a global leader in Enterprise Workforce Management solutions, to provide the most comprehensive workforce scheduling solution for shiftwork and 24/7 operations. The combined expertise of both companies will help increase productivity and health and safety compliance of a 24/7 workforce using open, flexible technologies which enable organisations to match staff resources to workload.

The partnership enables Rostima and CIRCADIAN to offer an end-to-end workforce management solution. By combining the research, consultancy knowledge and experience of CIRCADIAN with the scheduling software expertise at Rostima, customers now have one complete solution for assessing, planning, solving and maintaining their workforce scheduling. CIRCADIAN will research, design and help implement optimum shift patterns for client operations and these will be uploaded into Rostima’s enterprise plus software. This enables shift managers to effectively administer the workforce, updating the software with specifics such as an individual’s shift and overtime preferences, skill sets and company health and safety requirements.

Managers and employees alike benefit from these value-added consulting programs, employee shiftwork lifestyle training, and other shiftwork interventions. Coupled with configurable software which establishes the optimised shift pattern schedule, unprecedented insight is provided from operating managers on how to schedule their staff most efficiently and how to maintain and monitor their schedule’s performance.

As experts in shift management CIRCADIAN’s customer base is made up of more than half of the Fortune 500. CIRCADIAN's specialists are experts in operations management, human resources, fatigue management, occupational health and safety, and sleep disorders. Their consultants provide comprehensive shiftwork training and education programs to shiftworkers and help organisations match shift schedules to operational requirements and employee needs to achieve win-win outcomes. The end result is lower costs and a healthier and more productive workforce.

Rostima is defining the way organisations approach labour scheduling through the use of software. Rostima’s flagship software - Rostima enterprise plus - incorporates workforce planning, optimised scheduling, time & attendance and employee self-service functionality. Rostima’s software solution helps organisations optimise their labour schedules by matching workload to staff resources, thereby increasing operational efficiency, reducing labour costs, improving staff retention and enhancing service levels.

Steve Moore, CEO, Rostima commented, “This strategic partnership unites Rostima’s best-in-class solution with CIRCADIAN, the leading shift-work research and consulting firm and enables our customers to manage their businesses and their staff more effectively.” He continues, “By combining research into the optimum shift pattern and software that has built-in fatigue management capability, we can assist in employee health and safety and aid organisations in operating the most efficient working patterns possible.”

Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CIRCADIAN’s CEO, commented, “By partnering with Rostima, CIRCADIAN is making it easier for our customers to adopt and maintain the optimum shift patterns that we design. This hands-on business partnership with Rostima means that we can offer our customers an end-to-end workforce management solution which helps them identify how to manage their shift patterns more efficiently and offers solutions to scheduling difficulties as and when they arise”.

About CIRCADIAN™
CIRCADIAN™ is the global leader in providing 24/7 workforce performance and safety solutions for businesses that operate around the clock.  Through a unique combination of consulting expertise, research, software tools and informative publications, CIRCADIAN helps organizations in the 24-hour economy optimize employee performance and reduce the inherent risks and costs of their extended hours operations.

Working from offices in North America, Europe and Asia, CIRCADIAN experts help their clients better compete in the global 24/7 economy. CIRCADIAN’s core expertise is the staffing, scheduling, training and risk management of their client’s most vital asset – their 24/7 workforce. Founded in 1983 CIRCADIAN has led the development of innovative new technologies and tools to enable employees to successfully adapt to today’s high performance workplaces.

www.circadian.com

About Rostima
Established in 1996, Rostima is a leader in Enterprise Workforce Management solutions. The open, flexible technologies developed by Rostima enable organisations to optimise their labour schedules by matching workload to staff resources thereby increasing operational efficiency, reducing labour costs, improving staff retention and enhancing service levels.

Today, Rostima is defining the way organisations approach labour scheduling. Our flagship software Rostima enterprise plus incorporates workforce planning, optimised scheduling, time & attendance and employee self-service functionality, it has been selected by many large and medium-sized organisations in the transport, logistics, airport services, hospitality and retail sectors.

www.rostima.com

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