How to Use back-office in a Sentence

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• The big story India has long been thought of as the world’s back-office, while its Asian counterpart China claimed the title of global factory powerhouse.
  — Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
• Time for back-office analysts to find a new career path?
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The jobs most affected would be those with back-office functions, such as human resources.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
• Cloud has also lowered back-office costs, improved margins, and boosted morale among the nurses.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 14 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• FedEx is looking to lay off thousands of workers across its back-office and commercial teams in Europe, the delivery giant said in a statement on Wednesday.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 12 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Senior Banijay sources think at least £230M of cost could have been stripped out of All3Media by smashing together similar labels and consolidating back-office services.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 June 2024
• 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
• Its own stablecoin or deposit token would probably not be consumer-facing, but rather for performing back-office functions, with a set of approved counterparties.
  — Crystal Kim, Axios, 18 July 2024
• Another large bank uses task mining to find and fix hidden inefficiencies in its back-office operations.
  — Don Schuerman, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Or a field team may use a certain software to input labor and materials, while the back-office accounting team uses completely different software to turn labor and material costs into invoices.
  — Mark Schwartz, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Those likely represent back-office positions such as receptionists, schedulers and HR associates, Pollak says.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In addition to the restructuring, Mayer said Candle is also undertaking a number of cost-efficiency initiatives in addition to the restructuring, including combining certain back-office functions.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 July 2024
• 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
• American corporations buy powerful back-office computers made by Chinese companies.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024