Their new premises are Waterfront House in Beeston Business Park, where all its 190 staff will relocate to from their existing Nottingham city centre base. The company has 19 million customers and employs more than 9,000 people worldwide.

 

GoDaddy’s head of EMEA workplace Hayley Samuels said: "We pride ourselves on providing excellent environments for our people and Chancerygate has more than met our expectations at Waterfront House.

 

"GoDaddy’s continued growth in the UK meant our expanding Nottingham team was spread across several adjoining buildings.

 

"It became essential for us to bring everyone together into one open-plan office, and also have the capacity to recruit many more people.

 

"At our current rate of growth, we fully anticipate employing up to another 110 people over the next six months, bringing the total number of GoDaddy employees at Waterfront House to 300.

 

"Our new offices give us an inspiring space close to a nature reserve which together will encourage creativity, boost productivity and help produce first-class results.

 

"The team at Chancerygate were focused on our achieving our needs and have delivered the ideal outcome for us."

 

Source: Insider Media Midlands

 

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A major increase in staff numbers, such as GoDaddy is planning, can cause unforeseen problems for staff performing HR, admin and accounts job roles if the company’s method of recording time worked has not been updated. 

 

For example, it is very easy for staff to fill in paper timesheets incorrectly. Sometimes this can be deliberate time fraud, but sometimes it is just new staff getting confused, or people forgetting to fill in their timesheets until a week later, by which time they’ve forgotten their exact shift details and are likely to just fudge it. 

 

Even if the details are all correct, most paper timesheets must then be manually transferred to a database (usually an Excel spreadsheet) before being sent to payroll software. 

 

There are many opportunities for human error to kick in during this time-consuming process – e.g. making an unrecognised typo in entering, or misreading employee’s handwriting (1 or 7? O or 0 or D?).

 

Incorrect data can also foul up HR tasks too, making it much more difficult to spot issues like adherence to the Working Time Directive or someone taking three 30 minute breaks plus lunch.

 

At Time and Attendance Midlands, we offer specialised attendance management software which can work either with smartcards or with biometrics. 

 

Our smartcards are about the size of a credit card and fit nicely into most wallets. The Radio Frequency technology means that you don’t need to physically swipe the cards, just hold them up near the reader terminal. This reduces wear and tear.

 

For the ultimate deterrent against time theft, we can provide a hand scanner and/or a fingerprint reader. Smartcards can be lost, or swapped with colleagues to input fake times. This isn’t the case with hands and fingers!