Green energy broker relocates

The Green Energy Advice Bureau, a green energy broker, hopes to create over 40 new vacancies after its Sunderland relocation.

The company, which offers procurement, management and sustainability services, outgrew its previous premises at the Port of Tyne, and has acquired an office unit at Hylton Park.

Currently, the company has 150 employees. It hopes to expand its workforce by more than 40, including executive roles and lead consultants.

Ricky Chaplin, chief operating officer, said: “2019 was a fantastic year for us with record sales figures and growth in customer numbers.

“To help support this growth we have invested in new systems and technology and the acquisition of our office at Hylton Park will help create a better employee experience, which will enhance performance and lead to an altogether better customer journey.”

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Many office-based companies don’t believe that they need a structured attendance monitoring system, but we argue that the data from our attendance system can gather will boost their efficiency. As we say at Time and Attendance Midlands, a time and attendance system isn’t Big Brother, it just gives you the big picture!

You may not need to know the exact timings of your salaried staff as a boss or a manager, but HR might find a full history of their timings very important if you ask them to put a member of staff on a disciplinary for lateness. Without careful documentation, proving lateness could be difficult. Many companies still operate on a casual “Just let me know,” attitude, which make it difficult to clearly state how many absences they might have had over a certain time period without laboriously scrolling through texts or emails.

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