The new premises are on Applegarth Drive at the Questor Estate Industrial Complex, and will be home to the Brigade’s engineering team and the materials, planning and logistics team.

 

The expansion came about thanks to Brigade turning over £42m in 2017.

Managing director Philip Hanson-Abbott said: "We are delighted to be opening a new warehouse at Applegarth.

 

"With four times as much space we can continue to expand our product development, engineering and logistics teams to continue to better serve our customers locally and globally."

 

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Many people think of clocking in and out as something which only applies to factory and warehouse workers, or only to people who are paid by the hour. 

 

While it is vital in those circumstances, ensuring correct payroll at the end of the week or month, at Time and Attendance South-East we believe it has its place in salaried office work, too. 

 

For example, it helps to quantify lateness. Many managers know little more than “this staff member is always late”. 

 

This is difficult to act upon, whereas if the employee had to clock in every time, the manager could show the employee a colourful, graphical display using our software which clearly shows when the employee was late. 

 

This would give the late staff member a chance to either explain their lateness, or to see that it has become a pattern for no reason. 

 

Our time and attendance software can be set up to send alerts to the managers once lateness or absences have hit a certain threshold, so the manager can stop worrying on a daily basis.