250 employees will move from their current building in Blackpool Business Park to the new premises at Bickerstaffe House, where they will be occupying one floor. They have signed a 15-year lease. 

 

Slater Gordon Solutions Motor is moving in order to better take advantage of growing demand for their services. The company partners with a number of major motor and insurance industry specialists, helping tens of thousands of customers following road traffic accidents.

 

Chief operating officer Stuart Russell said: "This is fantastic news for our company and for Blackpool. We have been in Blackpool for 25 years and have a huge commitment to the town. We are all really excited to be moving to a more central location and what this means for our future.

 

"Relocating to these purpose-built premises is a welcomed move for our company and is another step in a £30m investment programme that will ensure Slater and Gordon offers the UK’s leading claims experience to our partners and our own customers. It opens up many potential opportunities for us to expand our business further."

 

Source: InsiderMedia

 

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Moving into a new building is the perfect time to assess your current payroll system, specifically the way that you record employee attendance and their hours worked. 

 

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. 

 

For example, they are very easy for an unscrupulous employee to fake. If there is no way of monitoring employees’ 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, or of incorrect payslips.

 

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 the records.

 

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