The letting company, Whittle Jones, agreed that Acre & Tweed could take up residence in unit 27 of the Aston Fields Trading Estate. Occupancy of the business park is growing steadily, with more than 30 units occupied, ranging from 928 sq ft up to 3,507 sq ft. Acre & Tweed’s new premises are 1,662 sq ft in size. 

 

The company has its headquarters in London. It provides different types of security services, including dogs and guards. 

 

Caroline Jones, lettings manager at Whittle Jones, said: "Aston Fields Trading Estate has proved to be a popular location with businesses looking for flexible industrial space close to central Birmingham, but with easy access to the motorway network via the M42 and M5 intersection, and we are delighted to welcome Acre & Tweed Ltd to the estate."

 

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Moving into a new building is the perfect time to assess your current payroll and HR systems, particularly the way that you record employee attendance and their hours worked. This is even more relevant since the European Union Court of Justice has recently ruled that EU members should order businesses to keep records of the exact hours worked by their full-time employees, in order to fully comply with the requirements of the Working Time Regulations.

 

Many companies, even in today’s high-tech world, still use weekly paper timesheets to record employee working hours. These have more downsides than they have advantages, despite often being considered the cheapest time and attendance option.

 

For example, they are very easy for an unscrupulous employee to fake. If there is no way of monitoring their attendance apart from their own self-reporting, then they can easily put in overtime or prime time shifts that they didn’t actually do. 

 

Even an honest employee could forget exact details and fudge an entry. Inaccurate working hours could put you at risk of breaching the European Working Time Regulations.

 

Another example is the incredible amount of processing time that timesheets can cost payroll staff. They need to transfer often illegible handwriting individually onto Excel spreadsheets in order to convert it into data they can deal with for payroll. One typo could completely change an employee’s payslip for that month.

 

For accurate, trustworthy time recording, contact us today or book a demo. We’ll be happy to show you what our system can do.