ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 18, 2025--
EDS Service Solutions, a national leader in workforce management and staffing solutions, is entering the second quarter of 2025 with a powerful lineup of initiatives focused on innovation, agility and measurable results during peak seasons. With proprietary platforms and a people-first approach, the company is setting new benchmarks for staffing performance across the car rental, hospitality and automotive industries.
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Technology That Empowers People
“At EDS, innovation always begins with people,” said Sonya Locke, founder and CEO of EDS Service Solutions. “Technology isn’t replacing people, it’s empowering them. With real-time visibility, smarter scheduling and predictive analytics, we’re helping our clients lead with clarity and confidence, even during their most demanding seasons.”
Key to the company’s Q2 strategy are its proprietary platforms, Workforce Velocity and EDS Track, which provide real-time labor and fleet data. These tools allow clients to monitor productivity, adjust staffing models and respond to operational shifts with precision.
With predictive labor insights, clients can reduce overstaffing, improve service delivery and operate with greater efficiency.
Precision Staffing, Proven Results
EDS’s innovative approach is already delivering measurable impact. In a recent case study, a national car rental company overcame years of seasonal staffing challenges by partnering with EDS. Using the Workforce Velocity platform and synchronized recruiting strategies, EDS helped the client cut labor costs by 21 percent, improve task timeliness by 38 percent, fulfill 100 percent of peak-hour staffing needs, and consistently surpass customer service benchmarks. The outcome was a smoother, more cost-effective peak season driven by data and delivered by people.
Scaling Smart for Peak Demand
With travel activity volumes rising in 2025, EDS is scaling its solutions to help clients meet seasonal and weekly fluctuations. The company’s on-demand staffing model flexes based on live volume and predictive demand forecasts, providing full coverage without wasted labor hours.
Fast-track recruiting and onboarding pipelines ensure compliance without slowing hiring timelines, enabling clients to go from job requisition to activation quickly and effectively.
Smarter Logistics With EDS Tracking
In Q2, EDS is expanding the capabilities of its EDS Track platform, which delivers full visibility into vehicle location, usage and performance. Features include real-time geofencing and live vehicle data, helping logistics teams reduce delays, manage inventory and streamline operations.
“Tools like EDS Track redefine what’s possible in fleet management,” Locke said. “With full visibility, our clients are not just prepared, they’re ahead.”
Blending Technology With the Human Touch
Despite a strong focus on automation and analytics, EDS emphasizes the value of personalized service. Every client is supported by a dedicated account manager, culturally aligned workforce integration and live performance feedback to drive continuous improvement.
“We don’t just deliver technology,” Locke said. “We deliver experiences because people are what power everything we do.”
What’s Ahead in 2025
With continued momentum, EDS is focused on scaling innovation and expanding partnerships nationwide. Initiatives underway for the remainder of the year include: new features and third-party integrations for Workforce Velocity and EDS Track, expanded presence in the hospitality industry, enhanced recruiting and compliance tools, and client success initiatives in key regions.
About EDS Service Solutions
EDS Service Solutions is a workforce innovation company that helps clients in the car rental, hospitality and automotive industries scale staffing with agility and precision. By combining proprietary technology with a service-first mindset, EDS enables clients to operate faster, smarter and more efficiently.
For more information, visit edsservicesolutions.com or follow EDS on LinkedIn.
EDS Service Solutions Launches Q2 With Tech-Driven Workforce Innovations and Expanded Industry Reach
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn’t native to the country – it’s South American. It isn’t exclusively found in New Zealand. And it’s not, perhaps surprisingly, the kiwi. It’s the feijoa.
Known as pineapple guava elsewhere, the fruit — a green perfumed oval with a polarizing taste — can be purchased in California or Canberra. Yet no country has embraced the feijoa with quite the fervor or the fixation of New Zealanders.
Due to its short shelf life, New Zealand — a nation of thriving fruit exports — has never been able to spin the feijoa (pronounced fee-jo-ah) into a global brand, as growers have done with apples and kiwi. But during the brief span of weeks each year when the fruit is ripe, the country goes feijoa wild.
The feijoa’s allure comes partly from how it’s acquired. In autumn, fallen fruit forms fragrant carpets beneath backyard trees and is swept into boxes, bags and buckets to be offered for free outside homes, in office breakrooms and on neighborhood Facebook groups. There's such abundance that some feijoa lovers take pride in never having paid for one.
“It’s sort of non-commercialized. We turn up our noses at the idea of buying them in the shop,” said Kate Evans, author of the book Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging. “You just sort of expect to get them for free.”
In suburban Wellington, Diana Ward-Pickering said she had given away “thousands” of feijoas from her five backyard trees this season: in a box on the sidewalk, to neighbors, to coworkers, to her daughter’s eyelash technician — in short, to any friend or stranger who wanted some.
On a recent Sunday, Ward-Pickering selected a feijoa from dozens on the ground, halved it with a spoon, and scooped the pale, creamy flesh into her mouth.
“Delicious,” she said. But while she could eat a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the fruit in a sitting, she said, even her appetite couldn't keep up with the sudden and generous bounty that arrives each April.
“There are people who can’t afford to pay for them,” Ward-Pickering said. “We happily give them away.”
Not everyone’s an enthusiast, and every New Zealander has an opinion. What devotees of the fruit savor as a distinctive texture, flavor and smell, is gritty, soapy or sour to others.
Diana Ward-Pickering’s daughter, Lizzy, gingerly slurped a piece of feijoa into her mouth and grimaced.
“It’s giving snot,” she said. “My mind has not changed.”
But for New Zealanders abroad who love the fruit, feijoas are a nostalgic taste evocative of a kiwi childhood. Evans, who admitted to once paying 3 Australian dollars ($1.90) for a single feijoa at a market in Australia, said that in 12 years living overseas she often saw expatriates asking the same question online: Where can I find feijoas?
How a fruit that hails from the Brazilian highlands, Uruguay and a corner of Argentina first came to New Zealand remains something of a mystery, Evans said. But what’s known is that feijoas have been in New Zealand for just over 100 years, probably originating from California, via Australia.
The trees grow “extremely well” in New Zealand, growers say, due to the soil, subtropical climate and relative lack of destructive insect species.
In spite of New Zealand’s booming backyard feijoa economy there’s still demand for them in stores, where they are currently sold for about 9 to 10 New Zealand dollars ($5-6) per kilogram. There are about 100 commercial feijoa growers in New Zealand almost solely supplying the domestic market, including for popular beverages such as feijoa cider, kombucha and juice.
But exporting the fruit is “tricky,” said Brent Fuller, spokesperson for the New Zealand Feijoa Growers Association. “They’ll keep in the chiller for two or three weeks, but that’s about it.”
Research is underway to increase the shelf life of the fruit. But with the name feijoa still unknown abroad, it remains for now an institution of New Zealand's autumn.
“It’s something that kind of bonds us and gives us an excuse to talk to people around us,” Evans said. The kiwi, she added, has been a lucrative export for New Zealand.
“But we don’t love it the way that we love feijoas.”
A box outside a house offering free feijoas is seen in Wellington, New Zealand, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
Feijoas offered for free in a box are seen outside a house in Wellington, New Zealand, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
A man rakes feijoas from the roof of his shed in Wellington, New Zealand, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
A feijoa hangs from a backyard tree in Wellington, New Zealand, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
Feijoas is seen outside a house in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
