EXHIBIT 3.8

                    ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES
                    OF INCORPORATION DECREASING THE AMOUNT
                      OF AUTHORIZED COMMON AND EFFECTING
                      A FOUR FOR ONE REVERSE STOCK SPLIT































                         ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE
                         ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
                            WORKFORCE SYSTEMS CORP.

      The undersigned, being a natural person competent to contract, does hereby
make,  subscribe  and  file  the  Articles  of  Amendment  to  the  Articles  of
Incorporation  of Workforce  Systems Corp., a Florida  corporation,  pursuant to
Sections 607.1006 and 607.10025 of the Florida Business Corporation Act:

      1.  The  name  of  the   corporation  is  Workforce   Systems  Corp.  (the
"Corporation").

      2.  Article  IV of  the  Articles  of  Incorporation  as  amended  of  the
Corporation shall be deleted in its entirety and substituted by the following:

                                  ARTICLE IV
                                CAPITAL STOCK

      The maximum number of shares that this Corporation  shall be authorized to
issue and have outstanding at any one time shall be thirty million  (30,000,000)
shares which are to be divided into two classes as follows:

     25,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $.001 per share;  and

      5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, with a par value of $.0001 per share.

      Series of the preferred stock may be created and issued from time to time,
with such designations,  preferences,  conversion rights, cumulative,  relative,
participating,    optional   or   other   rights,   including   voting   rights,
qualifications,  limitations  or  restrictions  thereof  as shall be stated  and
expressed  in the  resolution  or  resolutions  providing  for the  creation and
issuance of such series of preferred  stock as adopted by the Board of Directors
pursuant to the authority in this paragraph given.

      3. All issued and  outstanding  shares of Common Stock of the  Corporation
held by each holder of record on April 3, 1997 shall be  automatically  combined
at a rate of four for one (4:1).  Any  fractional  shares created as a result of
such split shall be rounded up to the next whole share.











      4. The foregoing  amendment was duly adopted by unanimous  written consent
of the Board of  Directors  on March 20,  1997 and  shareholder  action  was not
required.

      IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF,  this  Articles  of  Amendment  to the  Articles  of
Incorporation has been executed on the 24th day of March, 1997.

                                    WORKFORCE SYSTEMS CORP.

                                    By: /s/ Ella Boutwell Chesnutt
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                                    Ella Boutwell Chesnutt
                                    President