Staffing expansion can cause administration issues

After a 1m project for a South Korean company, a Devon-based thermal engineering company are anticipating staffing expansion. 

The company, GRE, has been developing systems for the South Korean smart energy market, and they have forward orders valued at 2m. 

Currently they employ 22 people, and after their success they are hoping to increase this.

Managing director Richard Booth said: "The ultra-pure water cooling system is a fantastic example of high quality British engineering, designed and built here in Devon. The bespoke cooling solution is a first and enables our South Korean client to operate the SVC power transmission system with guaranteed reliability.

"The shipping of the system is just the start of our work with one of South Korea’s leading smart power providers. We’re also pleased to announce that we are already working on a further commission, which is currently in manufacture, and additional projects are also under discussion.

"Our desire, drive and ability to solve complex problems means that we’re in constant demand. This has fuelled our growth, enabling us to expand our team with three new engineers and a new director in the last year alone. With several exciting, new projects on the horizon, we fully expect to add further to our workforce over the coming months."

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Additional workforce is a sign of success and growth for all businesses, but it can cause problems for HR, accounts and admin job tasks if not managed properly. For example, if your company still uses paper timesheets filled in weekly or monthly to work out attendance and wages, a sudden influx of more staff can add hours to a workload. 

A workforce management system from Time and Attendance South West would bring your attendance systems up to date and reduce workloads considerably.

For example, managers would no longer need to approve every single timesheet every single week or month, and accounts staff would no longer need to laboriously type up the timesheets to enter them into the payroll system. 

All the staff would need to do is clock in and out using one of our terminals, with either a smartcard or a biometric measurement (fingers or hands). This data is collected in our WinTA.NET software, and it can be exported straight to common payroll systems such as Sagepay. 

Another useful function of our time and attendance system is an automated fire roll call. Currently you might be reading names with difficulty from a handwritten sign in sheet, which can be misplaced. In the future, our system can be hooked up to your fire alarm and when it goes off it will automatically print a list of everyone who is currently clocked into the building.