Page Group have agreed the ten-year lease in the Switch building, which was previously used by Amazon. It now provides grade-A office space, and is gradually filling up its spaces. The previous space was taken by the flexible workspace operator Orega.

 

James Smith, national director at LaSalle Investment Management, said: "We are now approximately 65 per cent let at The Switch highlighting that companies are increasingly looking for flexible buildings that can offer a high specification working environment and excellent transport links."

 

Source: Insider Media South East

 

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Moving to new, larger offices is the perfect time to assess your time and attendance system. 

 

Many office-based companies don’t believe that they need a structured attendance monitoring system, but we argue that the data that our attendance system can gather will boost their efficiency. As we say at Time and Attendance South East, time and attendance system isn’t Big Brother, it just gives you the big picture! 

 

You may not need to know the exact timings of your salaried staff as a boss or a manager, but HR might find a full history of their timings very important if you ask them to put a member of staff on a disciplinary for lateness. Without careful documentation, proving lateness could be difficult. Many companies still operate on a casual “Just let me know,” attitude, which make it difficult to clearly state how many absences they might have had over a certain time period without laboriously scrolling through texts or emails. 

 

With our centralised time and attendance system, HR can see everyone’s clocking data for whom they have permission, and quickly and easily export this or format it into reports using our report wizard or advanced report creation settings.

 

Staff can clock in either using our physical terminals, which work with fingerprints and/or radio-frequency smartcards, or if physical terminals can not be installed then we can offer an online/app-based clocking in service called the Self-Service Module (SSM). 

 

The mobile app version can also utilise GPS to tell you the location of employees as they clock in, which is useful for remote workers. 

 

For more information, please get in touch today.