The company was founded less than 6 months ago and currently has four members of staff and several prominent displays including one on the A19 and another in Newcastle city centre. It has moved into the Evolve Business Centre in order to allow expansion, and hopes to hire three more members of staff. 

 

Currently Smart Outdoor is aiming to secure new North East sites, to add to the 20 sites it has across the UK.

 

He said: "Smart Outdoor is still in its infancy, but already the business is going from strength to strength and with some exciting developments in the pipeline, I am certain we’ll see further significant growth in the coming months.

 

"Taking an office space in Evolve, which is right at the heart of the North East, positions us really well to serve the whole region, and the excellent road, rail and air connections nearby mean we can easily get to where we need to, with ease of access to London and Amsterdam, places that are of particular strategic importance to us.

 

"The digital outdoor market has some really big players, and it’s highly competitive, but where we differentiate ourselves is in our ability to focus on places that are currently under-served by outdoor media, but have important audiences that businesses want – and have the marketing budget available – to target."

 

Source: Insider Media North East

 

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

 

The European Court of Justice has ruled that all companies need to measure how long their employees in the EU are working for in a day, in order to properly adhere to working time regulations. We can provide multiple different language packs, to help you fulfil this requirement if you have employees over on the Continent.

 

As well as legal requirements, there are many more sound business reasons to gather and use attendance data. We know from experience that companies find the data we can offer them very useful in building up a bigger picture of their employees’ punctuality and productivity. 

 

For example, HR staff can very easily view and create reports about the absence or lateness occurrences for every single employee in the company.

 

This could give them advance warning about morale problems in individual departments, or allow them to spot who generally rings in sick on a Monday or Friday. 

 

Companies who don’t use time and attendance systems often say that it is good enough for the management to require 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 they won’t notice any long-term patterns, and in some workplaces lateness can be missed if the manager isn’t actively watching the door! And what if the manager is away or off ill themselves?

 

Getting a system to take care of all this time-wasting monitoring for you is just common sense. 

 

Most importantly for many companies, our time and attendance software is likely to help you significantly increase your payroll processing speed if you currently still use a manual system like paper timesheets. 

 

Our products are available to small business of all sizes. 

 

If you rent your premises, as most businesses do and cannot install any extra wiring, your employees can use our web-based attendance recording rather than our physical terminals. 

 

This is called the Self Service Module (SSM), and it 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.