How to Use back-office in a Sentence

back-office

adjective
  • One of the most powerful ways to do this is with middle- and back-office functions.
    — Jeffrey Todd, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • When your customers can't get banked anywhere else, the back-office cost becomes the moat.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Moreover, standing up a new back-office can be just as taxing and complex.
    — Miki Kapoor, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Don’t position it as a back-office function.
    — Nick Ryan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Far too many companies view data as a back-office problem.
    — Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In an agentic world, data latency is no longer a back-office nuisance.
    — Neerav Vyas, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The jobs most affected would be those with back-office functions, such as human resources.
    — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
  • This shift signals that AI is no longer a back-office tool but a front-line decision maker.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Cloud has also lowered back-office costs, improved margins, and boosted morale among the nurses.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 14 July 2023
  • If your back-office documentation isn’t in order, make changes.
    — John Hall, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Benefits strategy is no longer a back-office function.
    — Scott Byrne, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The group is meant to provide back-office services to content creators who already have large followings.
    — Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Equipment maintenance is a strategic function, not a back-office cost center.
    — Natalie Lemke, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • It’s gone from a back-office team to the function that decides whether a business can weather geopolitical storms.
    — Alex Saric, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Well, the back-office operations, a lot of the more arcane things are very labor-intensive.
    — Destinee Adams, NPR, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Useful, and entirely back-office.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • More companies are recognizing tax as a strategic driver of business growth rather than a back-office task.
    — Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • State Street will begin providing its back-office services to clients that want to invest in carbon credits.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • This turns procurement from a back-office necessity into a key driver of strategic growth.
    — Eldar Tuvey, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The future belongs to a smaller pool of elite innovators — not vast back-office battalions.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The old roll-up tricks, sharing back-office costs and head-office savings, tend to add maybe 10% to 15% to earnings and no more.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Onboarding and offboarding on back-office systems got simpler.
    — Gaurav Vashisht, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Compliance becomes a visible part of commercial posture, not a back-office task.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • What was once a back-office function focused on reminders and risk thresholds is now one of the clearest expressions of a company’s values.
    — Ahsan Shah, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Now the entire company, including design, e-commerce, and back-office teams, is united under one roof.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Near-term, agents promise major back-office savings that competitive pressure will quickly hand to consumers.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • Rarely is success connected to process improvements at the team or department level, or reductions in the drudgery of back-office tasks.
    — Arafat Kabir, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The travel industry remains short-staffed, and particularly for the back-office jobs that require a lot of training.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Employers learned that immigration compliance is no longer a back-office function.
    — Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Prime’s sole purpose is to provide back-office services for Elite, in exchange for a percentage of Elite’s revenue.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025

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