Yesterday we completed the stage of subscription for our shares, after which we already know that the funds from the IPO will let us implement the goal of the share issue. Closing the subscription of shares is a historical moment for our Company. After 13 years of joint effort we managed to make the first Polish Company from a HR sector enter The Warsaw Stock Exchange. With the acquisition of IT Kontrakt we will also enter a new sector of business and we will be able to offer services related to IT outsourcing. The new services will be provided to a wide range of customers in Poland as well as on the foreign markets, especially in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

Chairman of the Management Board

All details of IPO you can see at http://www.workservice.com/index.php/investor_relations

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Work Service Russia has become a member of Association of European Business. As a part of Work Service Capital Group, which offices and represantatives are all ove East and West Europe, we are fair and proudly become a new member.

Mr. Robert Knights commented this happening: «…it`s a big step for Work Service Russia to be involved in such a great Association. I would like to thanks the Committee, who was taken a decision about our membership, and, personnal dr. Frank Schauff».

The AEB is an independent non-commercial association funded by membership and sponsorship. AEB membership is made up of enterprises and entrepreneurs from the member states of the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which have business activities with and/or in the Russian Federation. These members form the AEB General Assembly (GA), which determines the overall strategy and policies of the association. The AEB was established in 1995 on the initiative of several European companies registered in the Russian Federation, Ambassadors of EU member states and the Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the Russian Federation.

Marketing department of Work Service Russia informs you about membership of Work Service in a first Russian job-fair online.

This event happened at 16th of February 2012. Platform for job-fair online was created via www.rabota-mail.ru and www.hh.ru

Work Service`s stand was at the first floor. Our team of recruiters had a lot of interesting chat-interviews and video-interviews. More than 300 candidates from Moscow and Moscow region, St.Pete and Nizhnyi Novdorod was at Work Service`s stand.

Job-fair online – is a first step to future technologies at HR-market. Just imagine: no payments for rent for government, no building the structions – all design-concept will be at one designer`s lap-top!

Work Service company is open to take part in new job-fairs online, we are ready to become a part of future.

Компания Work Service объявляет об открытии новых  региональных представительств в Калуге, Санкт-Петербруге и Нижнем Новгороде. На сегодняшний день Work Service насчитывает 4 региональных представительства на территории России.

Согласно планам компании новые офисы в первую очередь займутся развитием аутсорсингового направления. Отдельное направление работы будет посвящено изучению рынка непосредственно данных регионов РФ.

Как информирует пресс - служба Work Service: «Создание региональных центров Work Service преследует вполне определенные цели – представить региональному рынку конкурентные решения и услуги нашей компании. Сегодня обеспечить отличный сервис клиентам и высокий уровень работы, по-моему мнению, сможет только крупная международная компания, такая как Work Service. Причин здесь несколько: огромный опыт работы и возможность оперативной работы всей команды за счет актиной взаимосвязи подразделений. В планах компании открытие новых представительств на территории РФ»

Калуга
Адрес: 248016, Калуга, ул. Ленина д.51, офис 117

Санкт-Петербруг
Адрес: 196084, Санкт-Петербург, Смолеская улица, дом 33 литера А, офис 306

Нижний Новгород
Адрес: г. Нижний Новгород, пр. Гагарина, д. 27, 2 этаж, офис 209

В июле 2011 года компания Work Service начала работу над аутсорсинговым проектом для компании Tegola. В настаящее время принято решение о дополнительном наборе кандидатов из Орехово-Зуево, а так же набор сотрудников из Егорьевска, которым с июля 2011 года предоставлен бесплатный корпоративный транспорт.

Dear visitors, applicants and prospective candidates are welcome to visit our regional offices in

Kaluga

248016, Kaluga, Lenina strt 51, office 117

St Petersburg

 196084, St.Petersburg, Smolenskaya strt, 33bld litera A, of. 306

 For connection to our offices in Serpukhov, Nizhny Novgorod,  Kazan, Klin,  or Avtoframos ( Moscow) please contact our Moscow office on tel no +7 (495) 662-10-68

HR and Outsourcing
PASSPORT is starting a series on business practices in Russia. In this first article, we take a look at outsourcing HR.
John Harrison, photos Alina Ganenko

Outsourcing staffing and personnel may sound like an expensive option for a developing business, in fact for any business. So why are companies here taking up this option in increasing numbers? Because outsourcing HR needs is based on a business model well suited to the Russian market; basically it works. If you have, say, a call centre of about 100 staff who you pay a monthly salary to, you pay all the payroll costs, carry out all the banking procedures, and take care of all the tax issues. Fine, but these procedures are not straightforward here in Russia. There are six taxes and contributions to be paid for each employee, for example contributions to the social fund, income tax payment and pension fund payments. The accountant has to handle all of these issues, and tax regulations here are extremely complex; a situation found in many countries which inherited the Soviet Union’s administrative system. The chief accountant in a Russian company sometimes enjoys a very superior status, as his or her interpretation of the law, or laws can have a very serious effect on operations. Russian companies and the people who manage them have grown up with the system, they know how to handle it, somehow, and they get by one way or the other. We, foreigners don’t, and in many cases don’t want to do things in that way.

So how does the outsourcing company do it? It’s all in the contract that they write with employees. That’s what they do, they find solutions that allow the client to have the flexibility that they need with their human resources, and they make sure that the employee is hired on those terms. The advantages are not just on the employer’s side. The outsourcer, especially if it is a big company like Work Service can offer that merchandiser, sales representative, engineer, warehouse worker or forklift driver another job somewhere else, for another client, when the contract with one particular client ends. The employee can even move into other positions, get more responsibility, get promoted earn service bonuses, and so on.

So what other reasons are there for outsourcing your HR requirements? Business, any business is an unpredictable animal that responds, or should respond, rapidly to changes in the market. Changes can sometimes happen very rapidly. You win a new contract, great! You know that contract means hiring another twenty people. No problem—there are so many people unemployed now, aren’t there? Yes, but it’s not that easy. The costs involved can be staggering, particularly when you make a mistake.

There are advertising costs, the time it takes you to find the right people, interview them, train them, background checks, security checks, and then when the contract ends or a downturn occurs you are faced with the problem of letting those people go, and before that, dismissing people who just didn’t work out. Sacking is a dirty word here, it is expensive and difficult to do. As in other countries the employee quite rightly has rights too, and you can be sued for what is considered to be unfair or wrongful dismissal. Russians who sue foreign companies for “unfair work practices” win more times than lose. Downsizing can be just as expensive, if not more expensive than hiring, and things can happen at the wrong moment in terms of cash flow. Then there is the cyclical nature of demand to take into account. A soft drinks manufacturer for example, will need more packers in the summer than the winter. A promotional campaign may need temporary staff, a manufacturer may need to balance his risk on employing people as the company grows or he may open a new facility in a new region.

So, in steps an outsourcing company like Work Service, which says OK, we can take over all your payroll work. We will take over all your staff, they will work for us, and then we will invoice you. We will employ your staff on a variety of different contracts depending on your internal cultural requirements, the labour code and other relevant legislation. We will also look at productivity schemes, bonus schemes, key performance indicators and other critical business parameters as part of the solution, which may reduce rather than increase your costs.

Is it legal? There is no legislation which currently prohibits outsourcing. Some within the Duma are looking to clarify and strengthen legislation with regards to agency employment which the outsourcing industry broadly welcomes. The responsibility for operating correctly under the law falls on the outsourcing or out staffing service providers. Such practices are already becoming quite widespread in Russia. Work Service, for example, provides staffing solutions to key retailers, manufacturers, logistic operators, banks, call centres and software companies. The next time you go into one of Russia’s largest DIY retailers, you will find that some of the staff are working for Work Service and not the retailer! The Work Service staff provide key merchandising services, they are an integral part of the store teams from Moscow to Siberia and the south. Work Service pays their wages every month, takes care of all the tax issues, takes responsibility for the staff, for their uniforms, training and recruitment and invoices the retailer in one standard format invoice as a standard service.

How much does it cost? Charges obviously depend on the complexity of services offered. Different outsourcers are strongest in different sections of the market. Outsourcing for manual labour is different from outsourcing a company’s requirements for qualified and experienced staff. But the basic principles and the advantages for client companies remain the same. Basically, if the cost of employing a management team, which includes accountants and HR specialists, and the budget that they need to operate, is cheaper than getting an outside company to do the job, then you don’t need to outsource. But if it is more expensive, and the outsourcing company can simply do a better job, because that is what they do all the time, then outsourcing does make sense.

At the end of the day, it is worth talking to a good outsourcing company to find out if they can, in fact, save you money, and a whole load of headaches.

Source:http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/2279/ Passport Magazine, June 2011

May 2011, company Work Service signed contracts with two new clients - Tegola www.tegola.ru and Mvideo www.mvideo.ru

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