POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Nancy T. Avedissian, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate
Secretary of Volt Information Sciences, Inc. (the "Company"), with full power of
substitution, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:


    (1)   prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's
          behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
          "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other
          documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes, passwords, and
          passphrases enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with
          the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities
          Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or any rule or
          regulation of the SEC;


    (2)   execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
          capacity as a director of the Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance
          with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder;


    (3)   do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
          which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
          Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments
          thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any securities
          exchange or similar authority; and


    (4)   take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
          foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
          benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
          undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
          attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power
          of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
          conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
          attorney-in- fact's discretion.


The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary,
or proper to be done in the exercise of any rights and powers herein granted, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor
is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder.


This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorney-in-fact.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 10th day of March 2017.




/s/ Paul R. Tomkins
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Name:    Paul R. Tomkins
         SVP & CFO