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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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Making Time for our Community
Making Time for our Community Gemstone Logistics is a company that takes pride in our community. Each year our team works with local organizations to give back our community. Our humble team of software developers, technical support staff, and travel agents generously...
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