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Globe and Mail
09-07-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Kforce Inc. to Announce Second Quarter Results on July 28, 2025
Kforce Inc. (NYSE: KFRC), a provider of professional staffing services and solutions, will release second quarter results post-market on Monday, July 28, 2025, followed by a conference call at 5:00 pm ET to discuss the results. The dial-in number is (800) 715-9871 and the conference passcode is 'Kforce'. A replay of the call will be available on our website at for one year after the call. About Kforce Inc. Kforce Inc. (the 'Firm') is a solutions firm specializing in technology, finance and accounting, and other professional staffing services. Our KNOWLEDGEforce ® empowers industry-leading companies to achieve their digital transformation goals. We curate teams of technical experts who deliver solutions custom-tailored to each client's needs. These scalable, flexible outcomes are shaped by deep market knowledge, thought leadership and our multi-industry expertise. Our integrated approach is rooted in 60 years of proven success deploying highly skilled professionals on a temporary and direct-hire basis. Each year, approximately 18,000 talented experts work with Fortune 500 and other leading companies. Together, we deliver Great Results Through Strategic Partnership and Knowledge Sharing ®. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements All statements in this press release, other than those of a historical nature, are forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements regarding the return to a significant increase in investments from many companies, the backlog of strategically imperative technology investments, the leveraging by companies of flexible talent to advance their technology imperatives, any necessary adjustments to our business, investments in our long-term strategic priorities, retention of our most productive associates, and the Firm's guidance for the second quarter of 2025. Such forward-looking statements are within the meaning of that term in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include the following: general business conditions; the imposition of U.S. tariffs and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) actions, and their potential impacts on our operations and the broader economy; growth rate in temporary staffing and the general economy; competitive factors; risks due to shifts in the market demand; changes in client demand or our ability to adapt to such changes; a constraint in the supply of consultants and candidates or the Firm's ability to attract and retain such individuals; the success of the Firm in attracting and retaining its management team and key operating employees; changes in business or service mix; the ability of the Firm to repurchase shares and issue dividends; the occurrence of unanticipated expenses, income, gains or losses; the effect of adverse weather conditions; changes in our effective tax rate; our ability to comply with or respond to government regulations, laws, orders, guidelines and policies that impact our business; risk of contract performance, delays, termination or the failure to obtain new assignments or contracts, or funding under contracts; ability to comply with our obligations in a remote work environment, including consultants engaging in unauthorized or fraudulent activity; continued performance, security of, and improvements to, our enterprise information systems; and impacts of actual or potential litigation or other legal or regulatory matters or liabilities, including the risk factors and matters listed from time to time in the Firm's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Firm's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, as well as assumptions regarding the foregoing. The terms 'should,' 'believe,' 'estimate,' 'expect,' 'intend,' 'anticipate,' 'plan' and similar expressions and variations thereof contained in this press release identify certain of such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. As a result, such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. Future events and actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and the Firm undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Globe and Mail
07-07-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Ameresco Renews Agreement with the Government of Nunavut to Enhance Resource Visibility and Efficiency Across the Territory
Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers navigate the energy transition, today announced a contract renewal with the Government of Nunavut for an enterprise asset management software subscription paired with professional services. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: The Government of Nunavut has partnered with Ameresco since 2014, leveraging the AssetPlanner ® platform to efficiently manage thousands of assets situated across nearly 2 million square kilometers of Arctic territory. Their geographically dispersed portfolio includes over 1,200 buildings and over 2,500 vehicle and equipment assets. Each asset is managed within AssetPlanner allowing staff to effectively and efficiently manage the expansive portfolio. Ameresco delivers industry-leading enterprise asset, energy, and facility management solutions as part of its comprehensive portfolio. The company's proprietary AssetPlanner ® platform, combined with strategic advisory services, enables customers to streamline planning and budgeting, prioritize investment and optimize maintenance and energy costs. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco empowers organizations with actionable insights and data-driven decision making to optimize and prioritize portfolio investments. 'Our previously disparate data is captured within a single system, enabling data-informed reporting, analysis, and prioritization,' said Paul Diamond, Director, Facility Management at Government of Nunavut. 'This renewal and continued investment in the AssetPlanner system and Ameresco's advisory services will continue to provide us with critical tools to support the capital planning, tactical maintenance management, and proactive energy management of our vast portfolio.' The renewed software-as-a-service (SaaS) contract includes a subscription to the AssetPlanner ® software for the territory's portfolio and professional advisory services including robust virtual and on-site training and support package. Tracking over 3 billion square feet of real estate data, AssetPlanner ® is Ameresco's signature enterprise asset management platform. Empowering customers with data-driven insights has enabled organizations to optimize operational asset performance, achieve deep energy savings and carbon reduction while reducing the 'total cost of ownership'. 'We've been honored to partner with the Government of Nunavut to help them address their asset management needs to drive operational resilience,' Tim Dettlaff, Senior Vice President, and General Manager, Ameresco. 'This renewed engagement will continue to provide their staff with industry-leading tools to manage their vast asset inventory and enable informed decision making to help measure risk, reliability, and resiliency across their expansive portfolio.' To learn more about complete suite of asset and energy information tools offered by Ameresco's, visit About Ameresco, Inc. Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. Our comprehensive portfolio includes implementing smart energy efficiency solutions, upgrading aging infrastructure, and developing, constructing, and operating distributed energy resources. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco shows the way by reducing energy use and delivering diversified generation solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. Headquartered in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,500 employees providing local expertise in North America and Europe. For more information, visit The announcement of a customer's contract is not necessarily indicative of the timing or amount of revenue from such contract, of Ameresco's overall revenue for any particular period or of trends in Ameresco's overall total backlog.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
How AI is impacting lawyers, auditors, and accountants holds lessons for us all
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In today's edition…the U.S. Senate rejects moratorium on state-level AI laws…Meta unveils its new AI organization…Microsoft says AI can out diagnose doctors…and Anthropic shows why you shouldn't let an AI agent run your business just is rapidly changing work for many of those in professional services—lawyers, accountants, auditors, compliance officers, consultants, and tax advisors. In many ways, the experience of these professionals, and the businesses they work for, are a harbinger of what's likely to happen for other kinds of knowledge workers in the near future. Because of this, it was interesting to hear the discussion yesterday at a conference on the 'Future of Professionals' at Oxford University's Said School of Business. The conference was sponsored by Thomson Reuters, in part to coincide with the publication of a report it commissioned on trends in professionals' use of report, based on a global survey of 2,275 professionals in February and March, found that professional services firms seem to be finding a return on their AI investment at a higher rate than in other sectors. Slightly more than half—53%—of the respondents said their firm had found at least one AI use case that was earning a return, which is about twice what other, broader surveys have tended to surprisingly, Thomson Reuters found it was the professional firms where AI usage was part of a well-defined strategy and that had implemented AI governance structures were the most likely to see gains from the technology. Interestingly, among firms where AI adoption was less structured, 64% of those surveyed still reported ROI from at least one use case, which may reflect how powerful and time-saving these tools can be even when used by individuals to improve their own biggest factors holding back AI use cases, the respondents said, included concerns about inaccuracy (with 50% of those surveyed noting this was a problem) and data security (42%). For more on how law firms are using AI, check out this feature from my Fortune colleague Jeff John Roberts. Here are a few tidbits from the conference worth highlighting:Mari Sako, the Oxford professor of management studies who helped organize the conference, talked about the three gaps that professionals needed to watch out for in trying to manage AI implementation: One was the responsibility gap between model developers, application builders, and end users of AI models. Who bears responsibility for the model's accuracy and possible harms?A second was the principles to practice gap. Businesses enact high-minded 'Responsible AI' principles but then the teams building or deploying AI products struggle to operationalize them. One reason this happens is that first gap—it means that teams building AI applications may not have visibility into the data used to train a model they are deploying or detailed information about how it may perform. This can make it hard to apply AI principles about transparency and mitigating bias, among other she said, there is a goals gap. Is everyone in the business aligned about why AI is being used in the first place? Is it for human augmentation or automation? Is it operational efficiency or revenue growth? Is the goal to be more accurate than a human, or simply to come close to human performance at a lower cost? What role should environmental sustainability play in these decisions? All good questions. Ian Freeman, a partner at KPMG UK, talked about his firm's increasing use of AI tools to help auditors. In the past, auditors were forced to rely on sampling transactions, trying to apply more scrutiny to those that presented a bigger business risk. But now, with AI, it is possible to run a screen on every single transaction. Still, it is the riskiest transactions that should get the most scrutiny and AI can help identify those. Freeman said AI could also help more junior auditors understand the rationale for probing certain transactions. And he said AI models could help with a lot of routine financial he said KPMG had a policy of not deploying AI in situations that called for human judgment. Auditing is full of such cases, such as deciding on materiality thresholds, making a call about whether a client has submitted enough evidence to justify a particular accounting treatment, or deciding on appropriate warranty reserves for a new product. That sounds good, but I also wonder about the ability of AI models to act as tutors or digital mentors to junior auditors, helping them to develop their professional judgment? Surely, that seems like it might be a good use case for AI too.A senior partner from a large law firm (parts of the conference were conducted under Chatham House Rules, so I can't name them) noted that many corporate legal departments are embracing AI faster than legal firms—something the Thomson Reuters survey also showed—and that this disparity was putting pressure on the firms. Corporate counsel are demanding that external lawyers be more transparent about their AI usage—and critically, putting pressure on legal bills on the theory that many legal tasks can now be done in far fewer billable hours. AI is also possibly going to change how professional service firms think about career paths within their business and even who leads these firms, several lawyers at the conference said. AI expertise is increasingly important to how these firms operate, and yet it is difficult to attract the talent these businesses need if these 'non-qualified' technical experts (the term 'non-qualified' is simply used to denote an employee who has not been admitted to the bar, but its pejorative connotations are hard to escape) know they will always be treated as second-class compared to the client-facing lawyers and also are ineligible for promotion to the highest ranks of the firm's management. Michael Buenger, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the National Center for State Courts in the U.S., said that if large law firms had trouble attracting and retaining AI expertise, the situation was far worse for governments. And he pointed out that judges and juries were increasingly being asked to rule on evidence, particularly video evidence, but also other kinds of documentary evidence, that might be AI manipulated, but without access to independent expertise to help them make calls about what has been altered by AI and how. If not addressed, he said, this could seriously undermine faith in the courts to deliver justice. There were lots more insights from the conference, but that's all we have space for today. Here's more AI The essay above was written and edited by Fortune staff. The news items below were selected by the newsletter author, created using AI, and then edited and fact-checked. Jeremy to know more about how to use AI to transform your business? Interested in what AI will mean for the fate of companies, and countries? Then join me at the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia in Singapore on July 22 and 23 for Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore. This year's theme is The Age of Intelligence. We will be joined by leading executives from DBS Bank, Walmart, OpenAI, Arm, Qualcomm, Standard Chartered, Temasek, and our founding partner Accenture, plus many others, along with key government ministers from Singapore and the region, top academics, investors and analysts. We will dive deep into the latest on AI agents, examine the data center build out in Asia, examine how to create AI systems that produce business value, and talk about how to ensure AI is deployed responsibly and safely. You can apply to attend here and, as loyal Eye on AI readers, I'm able to offer complimentary tickets to the event. Just use the discount code BAI100JeremyK when you checkout. This story was originally featured on Sign in to access your portfolio
Telegraph
30-06-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
Entry-level jobs in free-fall after launch of ChatGPT
Entry-level jobs are in free-fall as the rise of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT causes low-paying and graduate roles to disappear. Recently-released data shows that the number of entry-level roles being advertised has fallen by a third since the launch of OpenAI's chatbot in November 2022. According to figures from online jobs board Adzuna, there were 214,934 entry-level jobs on offer in May this year, down by 32pc from just three years ago. This decline is outpacing the number of overall vacancy numbers, which have fallen from 1,091,909 to 858,465, or 21pc, over the same period. It comes after The Telegraph reported earlier this month that graduate hiring in the City had also dropped off dramatically since the launch of ChatGPT. This was particularly relevant in the professional services sector, where AI is threatening to automate more mundane tasks carried out by junior accountants and consultants.
Associated Press
27-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Ciao Moving & Storage Expanding Moving Services to Miami
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