In total the company employs 350 people across East Anglia in its Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds and Thetford offices.

 

As well as friends, clients and business contacts, representatives of companies who were integral to the new office were also invited: Andrew and Gina Long who own Hall Farm and previously created Fornham Business Court, Austin Cornish from Bury Developments who undertook the building work and Bryony Southon and Jonathon Simpkins from Bluespace who designed and fitted out the offices and meeting spaces.

 

Leonard Newcombe, Ashtons’ head of facilities said: “It was a delight to see everyone enjoying our new purpose built space here at Fornham Business Court. The project to convert this old barn into plush office space was a long one, but totally worth it. We couldn’t have achieved this without the help of Bluespace, who helped not only design and fit out this new office but with our recent Cambridge office refit too. Our staff are happy, the surroundings are outstanding and our clients are impressed”.

 

Ed O’Rourke, Ashtons’ CEO added: “It was an absolute pleasure to officially open our new office and welcome all our guests along to enjoy it with us. This is an exciting time for us and our staff have embraced the new location. We are looking forward to seeing the next stage of Ashtons’ development at Fornham Business Court and welcoming a further 60 staff here next year”.

 

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Ashtons Legal is obviously a successful and steadily growing company, consistently heading into new areas with great backing and a good attitude towards their staff. 

 

However, an area which is often overlooked as companies expand and grow is how they measure their time and attendance. (E.g. lateness, holidays, calculating working hours for payslips etc.) This is particularly important if they are also recruiting new staff, which Ashtons do intend to do, since this puts more strain on existing processes.

 

As a legal firm, Ashtons may be sensible enough to not be paying their employees according to paper timesheets. However, this ineffective form of time and attendance management is still practiced by hundreds of companies all over the country.

 

Inexact recording of hours (very easy with self-reporting retrospective timesheet!) can lead to potential infringements of the Working Time Directive, amongst other issues like tax discrepancies due to incorrect payslips. 

 

Many office environments believe that they don’t need any formal method of attendance reporting beyond emails or phone-calls. This is also short-sighted, as they are missing out on the chance to view the big picture their attendance with graphs and calendars. This enables accurate decision-making in situations like payroll discrepancies or disciplinaries. 

 

The best solution is to centralise and automate your attendance management. With our clocking stations and top-quality time and attendance software, we can do exactly this.

 

Our clocking data, particularly with biometric clock-ins, removes all uncertainty from attendance management, and makes it much harder to commit wage fraud. 

 

To find out more about how we can make your life easier, contact us today.