How to Use back-office in a Sentence
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Time for back-office analysts to find a new career path?
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
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The jobs most affected would be those with back-office functions, such as human resources.
—Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
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Cloud has also lowered back-office costs, improved margins, and boosted morale among the nurses.
—John Kell, Fortune, 14 July 2023
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State Street will begin providing its back-office services to clients that want to invest in carbon credits.
—Amrith Ramkumar, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
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The travel industry remains short-staffed, and particularly for the back-office jobs that require a lot of training.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
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Inventory is a little older there, and a lot of it was based around call center and back-office operations, McShane said.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
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Another 30% are hybrid, and the remaining 10% are fully remote—mostly back-office workers, by Bloom’s count.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
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And yet most generative AI adoption up to this point has been focused on back-office tasks, like customer service chatbots, AI copilots, or speeding up coding.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
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After decades working in back-office jobs at Oregon factories, followed by years running bars and taverns, Barnes saw an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with something new.
—Mike Rogoway, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
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In Texas, a greater portion of the employee base is made up of back-office operations like engineering, customer service and loan processing.
—Shelly Hagan, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
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National accounts do not, for example, separate out R & D, design, sales and marketing, and back-office services from the physical production of goods.
—Susan Lund, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
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Another large bank uses task mining to find and fix hidden inefficiencies in its back-office operations.
—Don Schuerman, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
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Innovation like this cannot happen without integrating the complete suite of applications from sales to service to marketing and advertising, and from front-office to back-office.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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Angela Johnson, executive vice president with K-Star said office buildings that had previously been a call center or back-office use can be more difficult to lease to another office user.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
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How compatible are your back-office systems with modern technology, and what are the costs to maintain the integration links that create compatibility?
—James Messer, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Under the plan unveiled Tuesday, staff working on product safety and engineering standards will be combined into a single team, and back-office functions, such as finance, legal and human resources, will also be brought together.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
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The move will mostly impact workers in corporate, back-office, and technology roles, with those in retail or customer care positions remaining unaffected.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2023
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But there is no public documentation confirming that For All of Us raised that much — or more — because the entity relies on what’s called a fiscal sponsor to manage back-office operations like financial accounting and reporting.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
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Those likely represent back-office positions such as receptionists, schedulers and HR associates, Pollak says.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Despite some gloomy predictions for it last year, blockchain remains a viable consideration to drive process efficiency, from back-office deductions and reconciliations to order management.
—John Hergert, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Founded in 2005 as a kind of facilitator for tax-exempt organizations and charitable donors, Arabella provides back-office functions for nonprofits, including legal advice, human resources, accounting and the like.
—Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 4 June 2024
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Some charter schools pay significant percentages of their revenue directly to outside organizations to provide software, back-office services, enrichment or other aspects of their operations.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
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Process Automation Automating manual and repetitive elements of back-office processes will continue to drive efficiency and transformation in 2024.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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American corporations buy powerful back-office computers made by Chinese companies.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
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This change would affect back-office functions like human resources, initially targeting more clerical work like generating employment verification letters or moving employees between departments, Krishna said.
—Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 2 May 2023
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Financial services firms see opportunities to improve customer communications, back-office operations and portfolio management.
—David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
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