The company has signed a five-year-minimum lease in the new building, and intends to turn it into a business hub with numerous job opportunities, settling in the new Leicester location and continuing their work in developing the UK’s sustainable energy economy. 

 

85 staff members will be moving to the new premises, and Octopus Energy is looking to double this number of employees in the next year alone. Most of these recruits will be in the Operations department, where they operate as self-managing start-ups. It is also many hoped that many of these will be graduates: Octopus Energy is joining forces with the University of Leicester and De Montfort University.

 

This large number of job vacancies should provide opportunities for local people and boost the local economy.

 

Octopus Energy CEO, Greg Jackson says: “We are very excited to be continuing to grow our current presence in Leicester, welcoming Graduates into the world of work and boosting regional growth at the same time.”

 

Source: East Midland Business Link

 

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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, but we argue that the data from our attendance system can gather will boost their efficiency. As we say 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 cannot 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. 

 

For more information, please get in touch today.