Singapore-based staffing platform Workmate acquired by Persol Asia Pacific • TechCrunch

Workmate, a Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform, has been acquired by Persol Asia Pacific, one of many area’s largest HR service suppliers. Workmate focuses on frontline and important staff, and the acquisition will permit it to develop its HR options all through the Asia Pacific. Workmate presently operates in Thailand and Indonesia and is increasing operations into Singapore this month.

Persol Asia Pacific is a part of Persol Holdings, which is listed on the Tokyo Inventory Alternate. It is among the largest human sources corporations in Japan and has invested in HR tech corporations together with Glint.

Workmate was based in 2016 to assist companies discover frontline employees, whereas making certain that staff get constant employment. About 120,000 frontline staff and greater than 800 corporations are presently on its platform. The corporate defines frontline employees as important staff, usually in low- to mid-skilled work, who present important companies to the general public. Sectors embrace logistics and warehousing, manufacturing, meals and beverage, retail and again workplace roles like admin and customer support.

Workmate offers corporations with a pre-vetted pool of staff for each short- and long-term work and makes use of proprietary AI-scoring algorithms to enhance matching high quality and attendance charges, employee retention and productiveness. The algorithms take into consideration information factors like work expertise, location and expertise, and combines that with first-hand behavioral information and employee historical past on Workmate’s platform, like attendance and supervisor rankings.

Workmate will retain its personal branding after the acquisition and can run independently with Persol Asia Pacific as its mum or dad firm.