Both of these places netted £296,340 in sales per worker, whereas London only came in second with £205,390. 

 

London did come first in total turnover (from the digital industry) but Bristol and Bath still came third in that measurement, with £8.2 billion.

 

A potential reason for this success is the support that these areas offer to start-ups and growing businesses – for example, the SETsquared programme, a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton, and Surrey which is the number one university business incubator in the world. The Bristol scheme houses many ambitious small businesses, including Boxworks which offers shipping containers as affordable office spaces for start-ups. 

 

The healthy growth of these new businesses is clearly evident in the 53% increase in turnover. The Bath and Bristol cluster is perfectly positioned to nurture, develop and benefit from this booming industry. 

 

Source: Business West Blog

 

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It is a surprising but true fact that even companies in the technology sector, who work hard every day to solve people’s problems with technology, can end up using very low-tech solutions for basic employee management tasks. 

 

The prime example of this is wasting countless sheets of paper in measuring attendance. Examples of this are numerous: paper timesheets for hourly staff, visitor sign-in sheets for health and safety and security, holiday booking forms … All of these need to be approved and/or signed by multiple people, which wastes time that would be better spent elsewhere. It is also a massive waste of paper, since these documents are generally only used once before they’re thrown away. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance South-West, we offer powerful specialised software which can gather all this data for you and present it in an easy to understand format. This can be useful for many different departments, from taking the labour out of payroll hours and helping HR spot attendance problems to taking the effort out of managing visitor for receptionists and admins, and putting health and safety managers’ minds at ease by producing fast, accurate fire registers as soon as the alarm sounds.