Monitored alarm systems provider creates 300 new jobs

One of the UK’s best known monitored alarm systems providers has created 300 new jobs in the North-East, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to suggest.

Verisure has trebled its first-year hire target, with the recruitment close to 300 staff at its Centre of Excellence in North Tyneside. Up to 100 jobs will be on offer in 2021.

The company set up its base in the region in April 2020 with a pledge to create 1,000 jobs over a ten-year period.

Verisure signed an 11-year lease at the 104,000 sq ft at Quorum Park in North Tyneside, which has been adapted to meet its needs. It initially took 22,000 sq ft and has now expanded into a further 13,000 sq ft.

The majority of the jobs located in the North Tyneside site are in customer service, technical support, field operations, training, IT, telesales, HR and finance.

Time and Attendance North East – Your Workforce Management Experts

A significant increase in staff numbers can cause unforeseen problems for staff performing HR, admin and accounts job roles if the company’s method of recording time worked has not been updated.

For example, it is very easy for staff to fill in paper timesheets incorrectly. Sometimes this can be deliberate time fraud, but sometimes it is just new staff getting confused, or people forgetting to fill in their timesheets until a week later, by which time they’ve forgotten their exact shift details and are likely to just fudge it.

Even if the details are all correct, most paper timesheets must then be manually transferred to a database (usually an Excel spreadsheet) before being sent to payroll software.

There are many opportunities for human error to kick in during this time-consuming process – e.g. making an unrecognised typo in entering, or misreading employee’s handwriting (1 or 7? O or 0 or D?).

Incorrect data can also foul up HR tasks too, making it much more difficult to spot issues like adherence to the Working Time Directive or someone taking three 30 minute breaks plus lunch.

At Time and Attendance North East, we offer specialised attendance management software which can work either with smartcards or with biometrics.

Our smartcards are about the size of a credit card and fit nicely into most wallets. The Radio Frequency technology means that you don’t need to physically swipe the cards, just hold them up near the reader terminal. This reduces wear and tear. We also sell Long-Range smartcards, which can be read from several metres away.

For the ultimate deterrent against time theft, we can provide a fingerprint reader and/or a facial recognition unit. Smartcards can be lost, or swapped with colleagues to input fake times. This isn’t the case with body parts!

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