
Why Optimizely’s Employees Don’t Have to Work at Being Employees
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Why did Optimizely, a company that makes customer experience optimization software, decide to invest in HR Service Delivery? According to Ryan Higginson-Scott, Optimizely’s Senior Manager of People Operations, Systems and Services, “HR Service Delivery allows us to support employees in a way that clears away the noise [so they can] focus on their actual job and not on having to work at being an employee.”
Based in San Francisco, CA, Optimizely needed an easy way to support its growing, global workforce. And, they wanted a solution that aligned with the company’s 3 tenets of HR success: easy, essential and empathy. PeopleDoc was a perfect match.
Find out how Optimizely is using PeopleDoc’s HR Service Delivery platform to make life easier for employees−and HR.
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About Jolene Nicotina
Jolene Nicotina is the Content Marketing Manager for North America at PeopleDoc, Inc. She works on making sure HR professionals have all the latest information they need related to HR service delivery, HR technology, and PeopleDoc, Inc. Prior to PeopleDoc, Jolene worked in marketing communications for the healthcare technology industry.