Concept Group looks to expand

Concept Group, which is a managed print services provider and part of Xerox, has recently moved to the Neon building on Quorum Business Park, after eight years at Newcastle Business Park. After this success, they are looking to significantly grow the size of their team.

Currently the business has 18 employees at its new Newcastle site, and it is hoping to increase this by more than 20%.

Director Alex McKenna said: “After achieving growth and increasing staff numbers year on year, it was time to move to bigger premises that match our ambitions.

“It was also important to reward the hard work and loyalty of our current team with inspiring, sociable surroundings and great amenities, which encourage creativity and will also help us attract the best people from our industry to join them.”

An area which is often overlooked as companies expand and grow is how they measure their time and attendance. This is particularly important when they are recruiting new staff, since this puts more strain on existing processes.

The least effective form of time and attendance management is still practiced by hundreds of companies all over the country – the self-reporting paper timesheet.

Inexact, or worse, falsified recording of hours can lead to potential infringements of the Working Time Directive, amongst other issues like tax discrepancies due to incorrect payslips.

The next stage of timesheet processing is that somebody needs to collect all of those individual timesheets and enter all that data number by number into a spreadsheet in order to send it to the payroll software.

There are a number of workarounds to these problems. The best solution is to centralise and automate both those parts of the process. With our clocking stations and top-quality time and attendance software, we can do exactly this.

Employees no longer have to spend time and energy filling in the forms, because all they need to do is just clock in or out using their smartcards or fingerprints. The process is over in less than a second, and the data is then automatically sent to the central database.

Payroll staff no longer need to squint at bad handwriting and hope that this number is a 7, not a 1, because the collected data can be exported quickly and easily, in a format suitable for all the leading payroll programs.