Basingstoke Village Hotel opens

A brand new hotel has opened in Basingstoke, as part of Village Hotel Club’s £480m investment programme.

Village Hotel Basingstoke has 153 bedrooms and a gym, and is home to  a branch of Starbucks and the co-working space VWorks.

The Village Hotel Club hopes to open an additional 20 new hotels in the next six years.

General manager Nalin Daud said: “We’re thrilled to unveil Village Hotel Basingstoke and VWorks, and look forward to welcoming the local community.

“With our location, we’re ideally placed to support small enterprises and business owners, enabling them to network, connect with mentors and make the most of our flexible working environment, helping provide opportunities for all in the town.”

Linda Cheung, board director at Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership, added: “It’s great to be welcoming Village Hotels to the area. Basing View is one of the best connected business destinations in the South East. This latest addition makes it an even more viable and desirable.”

The hotel industry employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff in order to staff the hotel around the clock. If there was ever an industry which suffers from still using paper timesheets to record working hours, it is this one.

Keeping track of shifts, especially on night shifts or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high volumes of staff using timesheets. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets by the deadline and agency staff hand theirs straight to their agencies, meaning that sometimes the employer never even sees it to approve it.

This means that there is a very real danger of employees falsifying their timesheets; either just by a few minutes here and there, or outright claiming shifts they were never present for.

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance South East will solve these authorisation issues. If employees have to clock in at the clocking terminal before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month.

Supervisors and managers can also check all of the timing data for their assigned team members easily within the software, which gets rid of squinting at bad handwriting, and also gets rid of the need to chase people up for handing them in late.

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