Their new premises, for 70 staff, are located at Bede House on Belmont Business Park, and Baldwins have agreed a ten-year lease. 

 

The company employs over 3,000 people across the UK in 95 operations, providing advisory services, such as audit and accountancy, tax advice, restructuring, insolvency, forensics, corporate finance and banking. It has more than 10,000 clients of all sizes in the North East.

 

"Durham is at the heart of the North East and provides the perfect platform for us to serve the region’s businesses in one place, whatever their requirements may be," said leading partner, David McFarlane.

 

"I’m excited to be leading an office of this size at a time when businesses, now more than ever, need well-rounded business experts to help them navigate Brexit uncertainty and regulatory changes such as making tax digital.

 

"As technology continues to advance, we are primed to support clients with the latest digital solutions; enabling them to have better control of their finances and allowing us to interpret and report data faster, more efficiently and more effectively than ever before."

 

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Moving to a new office 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. As we say at Time and Attendance North East, having a time and attendance system isn’t Big Brother, it just gives you the big picture! 

 

The European Court of Justice has ruled that all companies need to measure the duration of time worked every day by their employees. We can provide multiple different language packs, to help you fulfil this requirement if you have employees over on the Continent.

 

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 can’t be installed then we can offer an online/app-based clocking in service called the Self-Service Module (SSM). 

For more information, please get in touch today.