A quarterly newsletter from the HRToolbox Team, Issue 4 - September 2003

We’re back with another issue of the Toolbox Times! With this issue we'll bring you up-to-date on current events and share a few tips & tricks to help you make the most of our products and services.

The HRToolbox Team wants to thank everyone that participated in our annual Client Satisfaction Survey this year. We are currently reviewing your feedback and will be addressing the issues raised. Additionally, we will be incorporating many of your suggestions into future releases of HRToolbox. You may also want to check the “Did You Know?” section of this newsletter for a few tips on using HRToolbox.

Enjoy this issue of the Toolbox Times!

What's New Since The Last Newsletter?

News, features, and enhancements to bring you up-to-date. Read More >>>

Spotlight Alliance - Weichert Relocation

Learn how HRToolbox and Weichert Relocation have teamed up to deliver a complete Assignment Management solution. Read More >>>

Did You Know?

Tips & tricks for getting more out of our tools and services. Read More >>>

Comments & Feedback

If you have any comments or feedback on the content or any ideas for upcoming issues, please feel free to contact us at 877-HRToolbox (877-478-6652).

In order to serve our clients even more quickly and efficiently, we have introduced new Client Support Procedures. This process will ensure that you receive a rapid response to your questions or issues and features convenient contact options for assistance from any member of our Client Services Team.

You can reach HRToolbox Client Support in one of two ways:

By implementing this new process, we can ensure that someone is available to promptly respond to your questions or concerns during our regular business hours of 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM EST.

As part of our ongoing commitment to provide our clients with the most reliable, secure, and flexible solution, we have updated our technology to the most robust platforms currently available. The updates focus particularly on improving the performance and stability of the application.

In our May Release, there were multiple enhancements to the Compensation section and other areas of HRToolbox. Some of the key enhancements are detailed below.

• Capability to reuse worksheet values
• Calculate running totals
• Improved print-friendly worksheet

• Capability to copy report templates
• Expanded search capability on the employee reminders screen
• Relocation of the Additional fields for Employee Profile information to a more effective placement

Weichert Relocation Company has selected HRToolbox, Inc. as a key technology partner for its Assignment Management practice. Weichert plans to use HRToolbox as the central repository for clients that have outsourced the management of their international assignments. HRToolbox, Inc. was chosen for its proven technology, security, pricing, flexibility, and excellent customer support.

Incorporated in 1985, Weichert Relocation is a privately-owned, global relocation and assignment management firm offering outsourced management, relocation management, assignment services, real estate management and resale, financial services, payroll and tax, consulting and group move management. Weichert has established a separate business unit that focuses exclusively on satisfying the needs of international human resource professionals and their assignees. Considered one of the premier outsourced relocation and assignment management suppliers in the relocation industry, Weichert Relocation recently announced several powerful new solutions, including the PinPoint™ relocation management system and the FlashPoint™ on-line information system.

Weichert Relocation plans to use the HRToolbox application as a primary tool in providing superior service to its clients, leveraging HRToolbox’s technology and customer service to deliver effective outsourced assignment management. Clients have access to all of the benefits of HRToolbox, while allowing interaction with the system through a simple Web-based authorization process.

The alliance with HRToolbox, Inc. relieves Weichert Relocation’s clients from the time-consuming and often confusing process of managing their own international assignee population. These clients can rely on the combined expertise and successful track records of both Weichert Relocation and HRToolbox, Inc. in providing effective and efficient international assignment management, and free their client administrators to focus on work that will add unique value to their organizations.

“Perhaps the greatest advantage of HRToolbox is that it allows Weichert Relocation to deliver true ‘one-stop shopping’ for today’s global-minded companies,” noted Jane Malecki, vice president of Weichert Relocation’s Assignment Management Services. “We deliver best-in-class global relocation services in more than one-hundred and twenty countries, and now, with this system in place, we have the unique ability to do everything from data tracking to compensation reporting. And, unlike major accounting firms, we also have the ability to make payments in any currency and provide our clients with the most comprehensive reporting available today.”

Weichert Relocation’s selection of HRToolbox, Inc. as a key technology partner validates what the satisfied customers of HRToolbox, Inc. already know – the HRToolbox application is the premier international assignment management tool in the world, for companies of every size, in every industry. With its proven technology, focus on security, flexibility, and peerless customer support, HRToolbox, Inc. delivers the value that its customers – and now Weichert Relocation’s customers – desire from a world-class international assignment management system.

Did You Know?

• Did you know that if you are automatically logged out of HRToolbox due to inactivity, upon re-login, you will be sent to the last screen on which you were working? HRToolbox installed this automatic logout functionality as part of our security procedures.

• Did you know that a new field has been added to the Employee – Schedule screen to better help you track approval for scheduled events? The new field is Schedule Status and is a standard look up list with choices of Requested, Approved, and Denied.

• Did you know that HRToolbox can help your company track an employee’s total compensation? You will need to process payroll in HRToolbox in order to report on an employee’s total compensation. Processing payroll in HRToolbox means that you are pulling all compensation worksheet elements and any additional one-off payments each time you process a payroll period. You can then report on each of these compensation elements.

• Did you know that you can produce custom reports in HRToolbox? You can define the population you wish to report on as well as the fields to include in your report. For your convenience, HRToolbox has also created a list of Standard Reports for your use.

• Did you know that if you save a report as a Favorite, it only takes two clicks to run your report? Once you login to HRToolbox, you will click on Reports in the top menu and then click on the appropriate icon next to your report name on the Favorites screen.

• Did you know that there are five different report types in HRToolbox? These different report types allow you to select different fields, from various screens in HRToolbox, to include in your report. The report types and the fields you can use in each are listed below:

  1. Employee Profile: Select fields from the Employee and Assignment screens, including your additional fields.

  2. Payment Summary: Select fields from the Payment screen and the Employee Profile screen, as well as a number of fields from the Vendor and Resource screens.

  3. Communication: Select fields from the Communication screen as well as a number of fields from the Employee Profile screen.

  4. Compensation Package Summary: Select fields (such as the package title and worksheet notes) from the Compensation Worksheet as well as a number of fields from the Assignment General screen.

  5. Relocation: If you are subscribing to the Relocation module in HRToolbox, this report type allows you to select fields from the Relocation screens, as well as a handful of fields from the Employee Profile screen.