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Adapting to a New Normal; Starting a New Career during a Global Pandemic
Adapting to a New Normal; Starting a New Career during a Global Pandemic Like many companies, Gemstone Logistics is currently focused on adapting operations during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As soon as the World Health Organization upgraded the status...
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Why Gemstone Logistics Hires People Instead of Skillsets in a Tech Industry with High Turnover
Why Gemstone Logistics Hires People Instead of Skillsets in a Tech Industry with High Turnover In 2018, LinkedIn conducted a study and found that technology companies had the highest turnover rates out of any industry (13.2%). That’s a staggering statistic that has a...
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ILLUMYS: A Centralized LEM Project Control Management System for Industrial Construction Projects
ILLUMYS: A Centralized LEM Project Control Management System for Industrial Construction Projects I often hear that tracking and transferring data is one of the greatest challenges facing companies that manage complex construction projects. Paper options are too slow,...
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CampWare Workforce Accommodation Software Transitions to Web-Hosted Application
CampWare Workforce Accommodation Software Transitions to Web-Hosted Application CampWare 3.0 has just emerged from the beta-testing stage. It’s taken three years to transform Orissa’s popular desktop camp management system into a fully web-hosted application. The...
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Creating a Culture of Community & Support
Creating a Culture of Community & Support As summer winds down and fall takes its first chilly breaths, it feels like a good time to take stock of this year’s challenges, successes, and surprises. At Gemstone Logistics, we’ve had our fair share of all of the above. ...
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Customizable vs. Configurable Workforce Management Logistics Software
What it Means to Truly Take the “Work” Out of Workforce Management They say every successful business is good at one thing: solving problems. The more specific the problem, the better. When Gemstone Logistics started out in the scheduling, logistics, and management...
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The importance of knowing WHAT your people are working on
The importance of knowing WHAT your people are working on I get asked A LOT about what my job is. Officially my role at Gemstone is implementing ILLUMYS, our project controls LEM (Labour, Equipment, Material) software solution. My background is that I have many years...
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5 Amazing Stress Relievers You Can do at Your Desk
5 Amazing Stress Relievers You Can do at Your Desk Let’s face it we all deal with stress, being in a busy office and dealing with the daily grid can be challenging. Stress can be very overwhelming and all-consuming and really take a toll on your mental and physical...
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4 Reasons You Should Use A Travel Professional and 1 Reason You Shouldn’t
4 Reasons You Should Use a Travel Professional and 1 Reason You Shouldn’t Use a Travel Professional because: 1.We know more than you do We live in an age where access to information is both instant and readily available. There are a million websites out there where...
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Delivering a Large Project in a Small Company - Part 2 Keeping Costs Low
Delivering a Large Project in a Small Company Part 2 – Keeping Costs Low After my last blog post on 'Delivering a Large Project in a Small Company', I received questions about some of the things our company is doing to reduce costs in developing software with the...
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