"Good quality office space is in high demand in the area and we have already had strong interest from potential occupiers in the four barn-style commercial offices which are perfect for small office-based businesses and local employers," said Paul Henry, managing director of Esquire Developments.

 

The site is located west of Town Road, and has been carefully designed to sit within its setting following a study of local architectural character by Clague, with particular attention paid to defining architectural styles and materials.

 

Tim Wolfe-Murray, a partner at Clague Architects, who designed the scheme, said: "The sympathetic and sensitive design of new places is the driving force behind all of our work, and this is true of our proposals for the development at Cliffe Woods which have a focus on understanding and complementing local vernacular architecture."

 

Source: Insider Media South East

 

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The workspaces planned by Esquire Developments could be used by local SMEs, or use to produce hot-desking or co-working environments for remote workers. 

 

This style of working is on the rise in popularity, as part of a move away from rigid 9 – 5 working hours and towards hours more suitable for the individual employees. The main reason that people ask to switch to a flexible working pattern is in order to make it possible or easier to balance their family commitments, particularly if they have children, elderly parents or other dependants.

 

Managing remote workers is always a concern to business who are considering switching to this working style, since it is not as easy to measure their productivity or punctuality as it would be in the same building. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance South East, we can offer concerned companies a web-based application to help them manage their remote attendance. It is called the Self Service Module and it allows remote employees to clock themselves in and out at the start and end of the day, and to request holidays. 

 

A record of their clock-ins and outs can be exported or printed if the company would like a copy in those formats, but the supervisor has full access to all the employees’ data on the app anyway, and can run reports if they need to. 

 

There is also a Self Service Module mobile app, and the main advantage of this over using a browser is that clock-ins via the phone are transferred with the GPS location. This confirms the phone’s location at the time of clocking-in, and a manager can view employee movements on a map. 

 

If the employees go into an area of bad signal, the mobile app can cache the information onto the phone and transfer it as soon as connectivity is restored. 

 

Both staff and managers can book visitor appointments remotely, meaning that unnecessary phone calls or car journeys are eliminated.