Buck Consultants
Encyclopedia
Buck Consultants is a global employee benefits and human resource consulting
firm.
Buck provides its services through integrated practices in communication, compensation, global technology and delivery solutions, health and productivity, retirement, and talent and HR solutions.
Buck is an independent subsidiary of ACS, A Xerox Company (formerly Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., which Xerox
acquired in February 2010). Buck is a unit within ACS’ Human Resource Services (HRS) line of business. In addition to consulting and shared services, the HRS line of business includes benefits administration, learning services, and human resource outsourcing services (HRO).
by George B. Buck, Sr., as an actuarial firm in 1916, today the firm has more than 80 locations worldwide through a network of offices and affiliates in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.
Buck remained an independent organization until 1997 when it was acquired by Mellon Financial. The Buck Consultants brand name was scrapped in late 2003 when Mellon unified various business lines under the name Mellon Human Resource & Investor Solutions (HR&IS). ACS acquired Mellon’s HR business in 2005, and as one of its first significant business decisions, reintroduced the Buck Consultants brand.
Human resource consulting
Human resource consulting is an $18.4 billion industry that has emerged from management consulting, asclients' needs have become more complex and specialized, widening the gap between HR needs and work force capabilities, and thus accentuating the ability of HR management consulting firms to fill...
firm.
Buck provides its services through integrated practices in communication, compensation, global technology and delivery solutions, health and productivity, retirement, and talent and HR solutions.
Buck is an independent subsidiary of ACS, A Xerox Company (formerly Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., which Xerox
Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
acquired in February 2010). Buck is a unit within ACS’ Human Resource Services (HRS) line of business. In addition to consulting and shared services, the HRS line of business includes benefits administration, learning services, and human resource outsourcing services (HRO).
History
Founded in New York CityNew York City
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by George B. Buck, Sr., as an actuarial firm in 1916, today the firm has more than 80 locations worldwide through a network of offices and affiliates in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.
Buck remained an independent organization until 1997 when it was acquired by Mellon Financial. The Buck Consultants brand name was scrapped in late 2003 when Mellon unified various business lines under the name Mellon Human Resource & Investor Solutions (HR&IS). ACS acquired Mellon’s HR business in 2005, and as one of its first significant business decisions, reintroduced the Buck Consultants brand.
Publications
- For Your Information Newsletter
- Global View Magazine
- InsightOut - white papers from Buck Consultants’ thought leaders
- FYI Global Newsletter