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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Additionally, merchants appreciate that keeping installments on an existing card simplifies returns and other back-office processes.
— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 24 June 2024
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