New Southampton hotel plans revealed

A new hotel is planned on the site of a former shopping centre in Southampton city centre.

The site is on the corner of Lime Street/Evans Street. The new hotel will be composed of a six-storey townhouse building and an 18-storey tower, providing 283 hotel rooms in total. 165 of these are intended to be standard rooms, and 122 to be rooms with a dining room and sitting area. A car park, with 33 spaces, and 46 cycle spaces is planned.

This development will produce up to 60 full-time jobs once it is complete.

A planning statement filed with Southampton City Council said: “This development proposal will bring significant benefits to Southampton through the provision of a high-quality new hotel on previously developed land and will boost the local tourism industry.”

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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