The Hospitality Industry CAN Combat the Labor Crisis. Here’s how.
It doesn’t take much effort to see that the global hospitality industry is experiencing severe staff shortages that are grinding business operations to a halt.
Mark Heymann
CEO
Mark Heymann is a founding partner and the chairman and CEO of UniFocus, the leading workforce performance firm in the service sector. He brings to his position more than 40 years of expertise in the industry, particularly in hospitality.
Mark previously was founder and president of the Heymann Group, Inc. (HGI), a consulting, software and asset advisory company that was a forerunner in relating labor management to service quality in the hotel industry. For 15 years, HGI delivered significant bottom-line results to clients including Xanterra Resorts, Omni Hotels, Orient Express Hotels and Loews Hotels. Under Heymann’s leadership, HGI pioneered the development of labor management system technology, and in 1991, it introduced the resource and labor management software program Watson R.M.™
In 1998, Mark coordinated HGI’s merger with Strategic Quantitative Solutions to create UniFocus, the first company to deliver the full array of performance management systems for the hospitality industry. UniFocus’ first-to-market innovations include automated scheduling, touch-screen time clocks and task-based labor for meetings and conventions. UniFocus was also the first in the industry to guarantee a return on investment, and its meeting planner feedback solution was the first to include a multi-tier survey process to support the overall relationship with the meeting planner throughout the sales , planning and event period.
Today, UniFocus optimizes workforce performance with the most comprehensive systems and performance tools available on the market, including applications and services for labor management, time and attendance, budgeting and integrated survey solutions. Its platform is cloud-based with mobile applications for iOS and Android.
Mark holds a B.A. in economics from Brown University and an M.S. in business from Columbia University.
Mark previously was founder and president of the Heymann Group, Inc. (HGI), a consulting, software and asset advisory company that was a forerunner in relating labor management to service quality in the hotel industry. For 15 years, HGI delivered significant bottom-line results to clients including Xanterra Resorts, Omni Hotels, Orient Express Hotels and Loews Hotels. Under Heymann’s leadership, HGI pioneered the development of labor management system technology, and in 1991, it introduced the resource and labor management software program Watson R.M.™
In 1998, Mark coordinated HGI’s merger with Strategic Quantitative Solutions to create UniFocus, the first company to deliver the full array of performance management systems for the hospitality industry. UniFocus’ first-to-market innovations include automated scheduling, touch-screen time clocks and task-based labor for meetings and conventions. UniFocus was also the first in the industry to guarantee a return on investment, and its meeting planner feedback solution was the first to include a multi-tier survey process to support the overall relationship with the meeting planner throughout the sales , planning and event period.
Today, UniFocus optimizes workforce performance with the most comprehensive systems and performance tools available on the market, including applications and services for labor management, time and attendance, budgeting and integrated survey solutions. Its platform is cloud-based with mobile applications for iOS and Android.
Mark holds a B.A. in economics from Brown University and an M.S. in business from Columbia University.
