Collaborate with Richard Cornell to evaluate technology and potential market for SFHAX. Students end of semester goal is to create a business plan for the corporate partner to utilize!

Goals:

Prepare an initial startup plan for SFHAX The Workplace Community™ www.sfhax.co.  Startup market to be Evaluated– Stevens Students and their potential employers (May need to be limited to certain Qualifications due to budget constraints)

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Richard Cornell, BE, MA, PE ’73 the Founder and creator of the Community will work closely with the students who select this opportunity as their Capstone Project. He has many years of experience developing enterprise level software systems in a variety of computer languages.

Overview:

SFHAX The Workplace Community™ (Community) is an enterprise level web-based system that facilitates voluntary exchanges between Employer Members and Employee Members of the Community. It is a new “unique” and “comprehensive” concept that is different from traditional methods of working. It operates similar to a stock exchange. Employee Members are first classified into industries by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and occupations using Standard Occupancy Classification (SOC) codes by the US Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics respectively. They are further detailed by industry practice. This combination sets up an indexed set of Skill Classifications that Employer Members can search to find available suitable Employee Members. Workplace Advisers (Qualifier) Members assign a Skill Classification to Employee Members and verify their credentials. This gives Employer Members assurance that the Employee Member is capable of performing the skill at a reasonable level.

The system has additional nontraditional features. Employee Members can list their availability on a calendar, how much travel they are willing to take on along with their asking Labor Payment. The system accumulates hours worked under a Skill Classification so Employers will know how much time a person has been paid to work under a Skill Classification, verifying experience.

Labor Payments are negotiated directly between Employer Members and Employee Members. The hourly Labor Payment includes Community fees, worker’s compensation insurance, employer taxes, cafeteria style benefits and compensation (traditional wage or salary). The Labor Payment allows Employer Members to see Employee Members as 1099 workers (Contract) yet allow Employee Members to have large company benefits and continuity in their work life. An individual can be a member of the Community for their entire working career, even though they work for multiple Employer Members thus maintaining continuity in benefits.

An individual natural person can work for multiple Employer Members, as well as being a Household Employer Member or Sole Proprietor Employer Member. The Community facilities GIG economy work by task or schedule. It also handles traditional recurring scheduled work. It allows an individual, if a Sole Proprietor Employer Member, to bid on work paid by the project, yet still have benefits and hire others to help.

The Community’s engine is written in C++. It uses a unique system of HTML and CSS templates and variables to serve up web pages thru an Apache web server. The system runs on bare metal Linux RHEL 8.x virtual servers in the IBM Cloud. Currently there is a Training system and a Pre-Production system.

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