The lease at the office block, named Brandon Court, is for 5 years. The premises have recently been refurbished. 

 

Ian Clark, asset management director at Real Estate Investors, said: "We’re delighted that our investment into the refurbishment of Brandon Court has immediately paid off with this new lease agreed with Metaswitch Networks.

 

"The deal means that the whole of Brandon Court is now full which reflects the strength of the rental market for such properties.

 

"To meet this demand we have recently achieved planning permission for a new build at the scheme which will be going ahead in the next few months."

 

Source: Insider Media Midlands

 

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Moving to new offices is the perfect time to assess your time and attendance system. 

 

Many office-based companies don’t believe that they need a structured attendance monitoring system. 

 

As we say a lot here at Time and Attendance Midlands: a time and attendance system isn’t Big Brother, it just gives you the big picture! 

 

You may not need to know the exact timings of your salaried staff as a boss or a manager, but HR might find a full history of their timings very important if you ask them to put a member of staff on a disciplinary for lateness. Without careful documentation, proving lateness could be difficult. Many companies still operate on a casual “Just let me know,” attitude, which make it difficult to clearly state how many absences they might have had over a certain time period without laboriously scrolling through texts or emails. 

 

With our centralised time and attendance system, HR can see everyone’s clocking data for whom they have permission, and quickly and easily export this or format it into reports using our report wizard or advanced report creation settings.

 

Staff can clock in either using our physical terminals, which work with fingerprints and/or radio-frequency smartcards, or if physical terminals can’t be installed then we can offer an online/app-based clocking in service called the Self-Service Module (SSM). 

 

The mobile app version can also utilise GPS to tell you the location of employees as they clock in, which is useful for remote workers. 

 

Finally, and perhaps most convincingly if you have employees from the EU, the European Court of Justice has just ruled that all companies need to measure the duration of time worked every day by their employees. We can provide multiple different language packs, to help you fulfil this requirement if you have employees over on the Continent. 

 

For more information, please get in touch today.