Most global companies still use the traditional fixed premises, generally on a lease. 

 

Flexible working usually refers to the time spent in or out of the workspace, while a flexible workspace is a premises which can be used by more than one company, and is fully equipped to effectively do business in (e.g. WiFi, conference rooms). 

 

Patrick Matheson, partner at Knight Frank Newcastle, said that some North East landlords are ahead of the curve having already started converting their offices into flexible and collaborative spaces.

 

He said: "71 Grey Street, The Pearl on Northumberland Street and NEON at Quorum are good examples of landlords developing collaborative space within their offices to meet this changing occupier trend.

 

"The likes of WeWork and other co-working operators haven’t committed to Newcastle as a location to open co-working operations yet, but the thriving tech scene we have here gives us the right platform and I’m sure if one of these did come to town they would do well."

 

Source: Insider Media

 

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Many office-based businesses don’t see the point in using a time and attendance system, but we think differently.

 

It’s not like Big Brother – you don’t even need to take action on your data if you don’t want to. But we know from experience that companies find data that our products can offer them very useful in building up a bigger picture of their employees’ punctuality and productivity. 

 

Company who don’t use time and attendance systems often say that it is good enough for the management to get employees to ring them about absences, and that they will notice suspicious lateness patterns. 

 

But humans are fallible: that’s why we have computers! Unless the manager marks absences down on some sort of calendar that they refer to regularly they won’t notice any patterns, and lateness can be missed if the manager isn’t actively watching the door. 

 

We’re sure you don’t want your capable managers’ time to be wasted by becoming a pencil-tapping clock-watcher four times a day (start and end of day, start and end of lunch). Getting a system to take care of all this time-wasting monitoring for you is just common sense. 

 

Many time and attendance systems require physical hardware, which can’t be installed when you don’t own the place where you work. Others only work in the cloud, which may not be suitable for your company’s needs due to bandwidth, security and software compatibility concerns. 

 

We are happy to be able to offer companies who utilise flexible workspaces (or in other ways work at a distance/of no fixed workplace) our Self Service Module (SSM). This allows employees to clock in and out using either a browser version, or a mobile phone app. They can also request holiday using this app, which eliminates the need for cumbersome paper holiday forms. All this data is sent straight to the central software, where you can view it in a number of formats and easily export it or make it into reports.