back-office
adjective
ˈbak-ˈä-fəs 
-ˈȯ-fəs
: of or relating to the inner workings of a business or institution : internal
back-office operations
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Founded in 2005 as a kind of facilitator for tax-exempt organizations and charitable donors, Arabella provides back-office functions for nonprofits, including legal advice, human resources, accounting and the like.
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Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 4 June 2024
National accounts do not, for example, separate out R & D, design, sales and marketing, and back-office services from the physical production of goods.
—Susan Lund, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
And yet most generative AI adoption up to this point has been focused on back-office tasks, like customer service chatbots, AI copilots, or speeding up coding.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
So last year the company cut 1,400 back-office jobs, in one of the largest restructurings in the firm’s 98-year history.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
Another 30% are hybrid, and the remaining 10% are fully remote—mostly back-office workers, by Bloom’s count.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
Some charter schools pay significant percentages of their revenue directly to outside organizations to provide software, back-office services, enrichment or other aspects of their operations.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
In May 2023, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company could replace nearly 8,000 of its back-office roles like human resources with AI in the next five years.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Angela Johnson, executive vice president with K-Star said office buildings that had previously been a call center or back-office use can be more difficult to lease to another office user.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 4 June 2024
National accounts do not, for example, separate out R & D, design, sales and marketing, and back-office services from the physical production of goods.
—Susan Lund, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
And yet most generative AI adoption up to this point has been focused on back-office tasks, like customer service chatbots, AI copilots, or speeding up coding.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
So last year the company cut 1,400 back-office jobs, in one of the largest restructurings in the firm’s 98-year history.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
Another 30% are hybrid, and the remaining 10% are fully remote—mostly back-office workers, by Bloom’s count.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
Some charter schools pay significant percentages of their revenue directly to outside organizations to provide software, back-office services, enrichment or other aspects of their operations.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
In May 2023, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company could replace nearly 8,000 of its back-office roles like human resources with AI in the next five years.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Angela Johnson, executive vice president with K-Star said office buildings that had previously been a call center or back-office use can be more difficult to lease to another office user.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
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“Back-office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back-office. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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