Worklinks.com
Companies have been developing creative ideas to offer a new form of benefits to their employees. Instead of offering simply more money or better health care insurance, some Internet companies have developed an innovative solution: a marriage of new and improved benefits and work-life balance solutions deployed over the Internet. Recently, HR.com has taken a look at a few companies who have developed this solution including Abilizer.com, Lawexpress.com, Lifecare.com, and Kudoz.com.
One of Worklink´s mottos is "Smarter is the new faster". What does this mean? It means that smart companies will take advantage of today´s technology to provide the tools to help their employees accomplish more. Worklinks provides a complete solution to helping your employees in all the aspects of their Working, Living, and Learning lives.
Let´s take a look at Worklinks and you can judge for yourself...
What is Worklinks.com?
Worklinks.com is an ASP that provides an "online work-life solution" giving companies time-saving tools to assist their employees with work-life balance issues. Not only is work-life balance an issue for these employers but also another selling point is the development of online workplace community with broader social connections.
Divided into three main sections: Working, Living, and Learning, the Worklinks´ interface is bright, colorful, catchy, and inviting. The Working Channel provides employees with productivity and communication tools to facilitate the exchange of information across your company. The Living Channel provides "Work-Life Solutions" consisting of "resources that help strengthen company culture and save employees time and money". Finally, the Learning Channel can be specifically designed to accommodate the learning and career development needs of your company.
Some examples of the actions under the Worklinks´ headings include:
Career training, personal development, incentive programs, learning pursuits, tracking and reporting, learning exchange
Daily reminders, calendar, daily schedule, news, travel & entertainment
Message boards, company news, forms and reports, benefits, competency assessments, surveys & feedback, procurement, policies and procedures
Restaurants, weather, entertainment, financial services, maps and directories, concierge services
Products, services, company store, awards points, credits, auctions
Essentially, employers would subscribe to having access to an online community filled with product vendors, service providers and company-wide communication tools. These products and services are usually offered at a lowered cost to employees of subscribing companies. Employees would then go online to a company-customized site to purchase desired products and services. This would save both employers and employees valuable time by providing these products online and helping employees with their time management.
Worklinks has four main goals to benefit your company:
1) Increasing your workforce´s productivity and retention.
2) Enabling continuous learning and development
3) Foster corporate culture, community, and communication
4) Give employees more time for their personal needs
For example, training and development is one of the most desired attraction and retention tools for IT workers. This not only benefits the company, as cutting edge skills keep them competitive, but also retains employees. They can see the company´s investment in them, as well as, continuous learning provides them with future portable skills. Worklinks has developed the Learning Channel to help companies consolidate the "best content and tools" that can be customized specifically to your company´s needs.
Worklinks can literally connect your employees using the Internet as the network.This past July 2000, Best Buy and Stride Right Corporation decided to go with to provide their 54,000 employees with Worklinks´ cutting-edge workplace portal. Although their workforce may be geographically divided, has provided them with the tools keep the Best Buy culture and workforce connected.
Pricing differs across the three different channels as different levels of customization and integration are involved and includes installation and services fees for each channel. The per-year cost highly depends on the size of your company´s workforce.
The Living Channel starts at $15,000 per year.
The Learning Channel starts at $25,000. The main reason for this cost difference is that the application structure is highly complex and can involve a high integration of client-specific content such as industry certifications and required training programs.
The Working Channel ranges between the two aforementioned figures.
Worklinks also provides additional value added services that are available on request.
It is not necessary for companies to subscribe to all of Worklinks´ channels. Worklinks will work with your company to determine which modules will best suit your company´s corporate culture and employees and then help you customize them to your needs.
To access the application, users simply need an Internet connection for at home, at work, on the road access.
Depending on the size of your company and level of integration of the channels, implementation timeframes are, on average, from about 10 days for a smaller implementation to between 2-4 weeks for a larger implementation.
What is going to make Worklinks a success? Worklinks has defined the fundamentals that combine employers´ and employees´ needs and designed a practical application that takes advantage of today´s technology to disseminate this innovative solution. Worklinks has combined Learning, Living and Working; the most important aspects of everyone´s work and home life.
As attracting, retaining, and motivating employees becomes an increasing concern in the "war for talent", progressive employers are finding new ways to keep their star employees happy. There are few products available that are designed to be a full-featured life application to manage all aspects of your employees´ interests and needs. Worklinks´ Workplace Network is a customizable, intuitive, and personalized system that can help you meet the challenges and demands of your company´s diverse workforce. Check out their online demo at www.worklinks.com.
Founded in 1999, Worklinks, based in New York, has created the only Workplace PortalTM designed to help employees fully integrate Working, Learning, and Living. delivers a network of best-in-class tools and services that enhances productivity, enables learning, and fosters community within an organization. Worklinks´ ASP-architecture provides simple, low-cost, outsourced solutions that extend the content of existing Intranets. The portal was officially launched in August 2000.
Worklinks
12 West 27th Street
9th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.696.2028