Coventry hotel prepares for opening

A new hotel is set to open in Coventry later this year.

The hotel, called the Telegraph Hotel, is located in the old headquarters of Coventry’s city newspaper from the mid-twentieth century. The operator is Bespoke Hotels, the UK’s largest independent hotel group.

As part of the preparations, the senior team is being acquired. Most recent is the appointment of Kieran Westlake as its sales and marketing manager.

Westlake said: “Having the chance to be a part of the starting team for the opening of a hotel and building up the business doesn’t happen all the time, so this is a very special opportunity.

“My job is to promote the hotel for accommodation, conferences and events and there are some amazing rooms and facilities of various sizes to cater for all kinds of events.”

General manager Amy Windsor added: “We are extremely pleased to welcome Kieran to the Telegraph Hotel team.

“His experience, talent and relationships throughout the region make him an excellent addition to help put the hotel on the map.

“The formation of the senior team is just another exciting step in the creation of the hotel and shows that we are getting closer to the grand opening of what is going to be a fantastic venue for all.”

Creating a brand-new hotel is the perfect time to examine the intended attendance policy and management, before bad habits sink in and while it is simple to install technology during the build process.

Thanks to a profusion of temporary, agency and zero-hour staff in the hotel industry, many payroll departments are still struggling with paper timesheets and sign-in books, self-reported by staff.

These have many disadvantages, including employees losing or forgetting them. Fraud and mistaken information is also likely to occur with this format. Stories abound online about employees filling in timesheets for shifts they never attended, not to mention the lesser evil of falsifying timesheets to hide lateness.

Paper timesheets are also hugely inefficient for payroll staff – they need to be collected, filed, and then their information transferred manually into the payroll system.

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance Midlands will solve these 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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