| What are the advantages of outsourcing animal caretaking and related activities to Charles River? |
- Customer can responsibly delegate animal caretaking and related activities to a proven service provider; freeing up management time and resources to focus on core activities.
- As the world's leading provider of laboratory animals for use in research, Charles River has a unique ability to recruit, attract, and retain, on a nation-wide basis, the best and brightest individuals who view animal caretaking as their long-term career.
- Charles River has the ability to introduce, with minimal disruption, technical advances and techniques developed in its commercial operations which help to elevate the overall quality and efficiency of customer's animal caretaking operations.
- A collaboration of this type provides the customer with greater access to Charles River's training resources and professional staff, resulting in a more highly trained workforce and the ability to consult Charles River professional staff when dealing with discreet veterinary or animal health issues.
- Charles River assumes all risks and responsibilities associated with worker's compensation, performance management, disciplinary action, and overall management of workplace issues.
- Charles River is an established provider of animal facility management services with a proven record of success. Charles River is also a stable and financially strong company who can commit to a long-term collaboration with no risk that it will lack the resources to meet its obligations.
- Charles River has a 50-year history of managing, training, and continually elevating the performance of those who make up its animal caretaking workforce. During this time, we have developed processes and techniques which are particularly effective in enhancing the performance of animal caretakers.
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| What are the financial advantages of outsourcing? |
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Without knowing the specific cost structure of customers' operations, typically financial advantages arise from Charles River developing ways to handle functions and responsibilities with a level of efficiency that, in time, reduces overtime, unproductive work hours, and overall head count. All this is accomplished without resorting to a "slash and burn" approach and without compromising quality. Also, because Charles River assumes the worker's compensation and other risks outlined above, customer's costs are clearly and predictably limited to agreed-upon labor rates and an annual administrative fee, effectively insulating the customer from unanticipated costs. In short, Charles River delivers a high-quality and efficient staff at a pre-established price.
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| Why is Charles River preferable to a conventional temporary employee or staffing service? |
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Because a living product is involved, animal caretaking represents an expertise where the costs of failure (both financially and from an animal welfare perspective) can be disastrous. Unlike generic staffing services, Charles River provides the customer with trained animal caretaking professionals who are experienced in animal husbandry and the handling of multiple strains and species.
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| How does Charles River avoid creating classes of employees when it introduces its employees to customers' facilities? |
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Charles River has years of experience integrating contract animal caretaking staff into a larger workforce without disruption. In preparation for any transition of employees, Charles River tailors work schedules, compensation, benefits, workplace policies, and other programs to ensure that, while animal caretakers are our employees, they think, act, and interact with others as though they were your employees. This approach is supported through targeted training and a high level of sensitivity among Charles River's management team regarding the importance of ensuring collaboration among customer and Charles River personnel in order to achieve common goals and objectives.
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| Can Charles River provide more than animal caretaking and related services? |
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Yes. In addition to staffing facilities with employees trained to handle these duties, Charles River has experience in recruiting and staffing customer facilities with research professionals, administrative and technical staff, laboratory technicians and clinicians, and a variety of other types of personnel.
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