Intro

HPS is a full service marketing agency dealing with corporate identity; brand development; advertising; literature, on screen applications and Point of Sale (POS). They have long standing relationships with a range of clients including BMW, Mazda, Sun Microsystems and Virgin Active.

Objectives

As a relatively small organisation with no full time dedicated HR resource, HPS was looking for a cost effective personnel system to achieve the straightforward but key objective of improving the organisations employee information. Having recognised that their HR processes were not as efficient as they could be, they set out to look for a system that could store all their HR information in one place so that it was easy to record, retrieve and report on, as the starting point for increasing the efficiency of their people management procedures.

Result

Octopus has been used within HPS for around 18 months and has significantly improved the efficiency of HR administration and management. Whilst initially wary of whether people across the business would use the self service features, in fact they were introduced and accepted easily. People like the access to information and the ease of actioning routine processes such as leave requests.

Added benefits, beyond the improvements to general organisation that they originally sought, have been gained by other areas of the business. Cost savings achieved as a result of using Octopus, and the overall business benefits it delivers have more than justified the investment in the monthly subscriptions to Octopus. The business continues to successfully expand, and Octopus has helped them easily manage this growth.

"I have been very impressed. Octopus is easy to set up and easy for people to follow, and the support we have had has been excellent. By using Octopus we have enhanced the way we work in HR, made valuable information available and improved efficiency not just for HR but for everyone in the business" - Caroline Lewis - Office Manager HPS Group.

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