Time attendance

Physical security is a significant concern for many UK businesses across all industrial sectors. It really doesn't matter how large or small your company is; it is up to you as the owner to take all the necessary security precautions you need to ensure the safety of you and your staff onsite, especially if your company handles a lot of sensitive information and holds valuable business assets such as tools, machinery and IT equipment onsite.

Effective Time and Attendance (T&A) management is now an essential part of any HR management strategy. The right T&A solution can transform the way your organisation operates, improving productivity and team wellbeing.

To realise these benefits, you must choose the right solution. However, how do you know which is best for your business? We examine seven criteria to consider when choosing a T&A solution.

As Christmas approaches, it’s likely that holiday requests will be coming in to your HR team. It’s important for the whole business to track them correctly. However, there are many other reasons for staff absence: parental leave, illness, sabbatical, training courses, medical appointments to name a few.

To manage your workforce effectively, you must track absences in an efficient system that records the right information. Here are three things you should look for when choosing absence management software.

Most of us enjoy a Bank Holiday and wish a four-day working week was the standard. Under the government plans to boost flexible working, employees will be able to request a four-day working week. Here we examine the practicalities of this new working week.

Monitoring employees' working time is of significant importance in organisations where the Human Resources team need to juggle different working time patterns, such as part-time, shift work and staggered hours. To optimise managing working time and monitoring employee activity, organisations can implement time management software.

Workforce management is one of the responsibilities that falls not only to the HR department but also to every team manager in each department. Between the difficulties of scheduling, legal obligations and working constraints, how can we help managers organise their employees shifts patterns and daily activities?

At work, measuring performance is critical to see if workers are performing optimally. In the following guide we tell you how to perform a work performance evaluation to be able to assess your staff productivity.

In this article we will share 8 ideas that will help you optimise the working time in your business. You can implement all or some of them and the sooner you apply them the better!

Job costing is an accounting technique used to determine the exact costs incurred in specific operations. It monitors and records the actual materials and labour expenses for individual jobs and assigns overhead to jobs at a pre-determined rate.

So how can we carry out this activity efficiently, and what modern tools are available to simplify the process?