Moving sites is the perfect time to check attendance policies

Property consultancy Naylors Gavin Black will move into a newly refurbished Newcastle office, after agreeing a 15-year lease.

The previously vacant space at City Quadrant, Westmorland Road, now includes an indoor park, sports room and amphitheatre, as well as a range of training and social areas, including its own bar. This is all spread over three floors.

Chris Pearson, partner at Naylors Gavin Black, said: “This is a fantastic workplace and unlike anything else in the Newcastle market at present. Samuel Knight had a strong desire to remain at City Quadrant and this deal has not only helped to accommodate future growth within the building, but has also provided them with a unique workplace, designed to meet their specific requirements.”

Steven Rawlingson, founder and chief executive at Samuel Knight International, added: “A great deal of thought and consideration was put into the layout of our new headquarters and the finished product now provides the perfect platform for our expansion plans.

“Creating a great work environment was our top priority. From the outset we aimed to deliver a space that would become Samuel Knight’s ‘forever’ home, and I think we have certainly achieved that. We love what the location offers and our new headquarters more than quadruple the size of our previous office, giving us long term flexibility and opportunities for plans in the future.”

Moving to new offices is the perfect time to assess your time and attendance system!

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 North East, 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.

With our centralised time and attendance system, HR can see everyone’s clocking data for whom they have permission, and quickly and easily export this or format it into reports using our report wizard or advanced report creation settings.

Staff can clock in either using our physical terminals, which work with fingerprints and/or radio-frequency smartcards, or if physical terminals cannot be installed then we can offer an online/app-based clocking in service called the Self-Service Module (SSM).

The mobile app version can also utilise GPS to tell you the location of employees as they clock in, which is useful for remote workers.

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