15-storey hotel planned for neglected Southampton site

A fifteen-storey hotel is proposed for the site of the former East Street Shopping Centre in Southampton.

The site has been unoccupied since the previous shopping centre was knocked down to make way for a Morrisons, a deal which fell through in 2015.

Originally, the investor, Investin Southampton, submitted plans for an 18-storey hotel, but this was turned down as it was “considered excessive for design and visual impact reasons”. The new plans are for a structure between five and fifteen storeys high, with 268 beds, a detached two-storey duplex hotel suite and associated car parking. 

It is vital for hotels to have an accurate record of who is in the building, since not only do they have guests coming and going constantly but they also have to know the whereabouts of cleaning staff, maintenance staff, kitchen staff, bar staff, and many other employees.

Since many of these staff members will be temporary agency staff, they are likely to still rely on old-fashioned paper timesheet to record their weekly hours.

Getting employees to retrospectively record their hours worked directly onto paper is not only open to fraud and mistakes, it also makes room for human error further up the chain.

Managers have to collect and approve all the timesheets. A 2018 study by BrightHR showed that this can take more than 15 minutes per employee. Those numbers quickly mount up!

Thankfully there’s an easy solution. A workforce management system from Time and Attendance South East would bring your attendance systems up to date and reduce workloads considerably.

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 (fingerprints or facial recognition). This data is collected in our WinTA.NET software, and it can be exported straight to common payroll systems such as Sagepay.