The company relocated to West Point Court in Bradley Stoke because it had grown too large for its previous headquarters. 

 

Managing director Ian Menham said: "Barratt Developments published its latest trading update earlier this month and we’re very much seeing the positive results posted in that update reflected here on the ground in the south west.

 

"People are continuing to see the benefits of buying new homes and current conditions mean many people are actively looking to move in 2019.

 

"Good mortgage rates and schemes like Help to Buy are just some of the factors contributing to our healthy sales, not least the quality of our homes."

 

Source: Insider Media South West

 

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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. 

 

As well as legal requirements, there are many sounder 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.