The new premises are made up of two storeys and will house the national management team, technical and sales office, and a product research and development (R&D) facility. The business park is set in attractive parkland, with a range of on-site amenities, and close to transport links such as Manchester Airport. 

 

Other businesses currently based at Cheadle Royal, include Together Money, Jarden and Agilent Technologies.

 

Dow, which was founded in 1897 in Michigan, US, has been operating in the UK since the 1950s. The company will submit their planning permission application soon. Construction is predicted to commence in spring 2019 and to finish in early 2020.

 

Andrew Jones, president UK & Ireland at Dow, said: "We look forward to moving our UK & Ireland headquarters to Cheadle Royal, which sits at the heart of a strong customer base in the North of England.

 

"Cheadle Royal provides us with the state-of-the-art facilities we need to support our continued growth."

 

Greg Ball, development surveyor at Muse, said: "We’re delighted to pre-let a self-contained building to Dow on the Oakfield 4 plot which will complete development on that part of the scheme, with Lakeside 4000 the only plot available.

 

"Attracting Dow, who are a major blue chip company, is a significant accomplishment for Cheadle Royal and the borough of Stockport, which will bring highly-skilled jobs and investment to the area."

 

Source: Insider Media

 

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Dow’s move to their new Manchester site is undoubtedly a great sign of confidence in their future UK development. 

 

However, it is very common for a well-established and successful company such as Dow to forget about “back-room” tasks such as processing payroll. 

 

If you ignore these tasks and never investigate how to improve and optimise them, eventually they will “break”. This could take the form of your staff making errors in payslips due to an overstuffed workload, or unscrupulous employees taking advantage of lax processes to commit time fraud and take home money that they didn’t actually earn. 

 

So the earlier you can maximise efficiency and accuracy in these processes, the better off your business will be in the long run.

The least effective type of time and attendance management is the self-reporting paper timesheet. This is far too open to human error, such as forgetting to hand it in, filling it in wrong or payroll staff misreading bad handwriting. 

 

The timesheet method is also the easiest for employees to fake entries for time they never actually worked. This fraud becomes more and more likely the less likely the manager is to carefully check every entry: i.e. if a shift manager has too many people underneath them or isn’t given enough time in their working week to go through the timesheets thoroughly. 

 

As your company grows, it becomes a steadily better idea to introduce some automation into your time and attendance management processes.

 

For example, our clocking terminals remove the need for (and the risk of) employees reporting their own hours, because every entrance and exit is automatically recorded and sent to the central system. 

 

Managers can check the times on the software, which is easier than shuffling through bits of paper, and the data can be quickly and easily exported to all leading payroll programmes so there is no need for payroll staff to spend hours manually typing up handwritten timesheets.