Shred-it now owns the whole site at the Corner House, owned by Property Alliance Group, after signing a ten-year lease. This increase in work space will be enough for 120 employees.

 

Owen Holder, estates surveyor at Shred-it, said: "Since setting up in Manchester in 2007 with just five staff, we’ve expanded rapidly as demand for our services has grown. Our Sale office has proved to be an ideal location in terms of attracting and retaining staff, providing easy access to public transport and the motorway.

 

"Being able to expand within our existing space has ensured minimal disruption and that we can continue to strengthen our services in an established location."

 

Rob Peill, head of offices at Alliance, added: "Shred-it has been one of our tenants for more than ten years. We are pleased to be in a position to support its growth, providing the flexibility for the company to stay in its existing space and accommodate more staff."

 

Source: Insider Media North West

 

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A major increase in staff numbers, such as Shred-It can now handle from a purely space-based perspective, can cause unforeseen problems for staff performing HR, admin and accounts job roles if the company’s method of recording time worked has not been updated. 

 

For example, it is very easy for staff to fill in paper timesheets incorrectly. Sometimes this can be deliberate time fraud, but sometimes it is just new staff getting confused, or people forgetting to fill in their timesheets until a week later, by which time they’ve forgotten their exact shift details and are likely to just fudge it. 

 

Even if the details are all correct, most paper timesheets must then be manually transferred to a database (usually an Excel spreadsheet) before being sent to payroll software. 

 

There are many opportunities for human error to kick in during this time-consuming process – e.g. making an unrecognised typo in entering, or misreading employee’s handwriting (1 or 7? O or 0 or D?). This can result in incorrect payslips, and very annoyed employees!

 

Incorrect data can also foul up HR tasks too, making it much more difficult to spot potential legal issues like adherence to the Working Time Directive, or potential disciplinary issues like someone taking three 30 minute breaks as well as their lunch.

 

At Time and Attendance North West, we offer specialised attendance management software which can work either with smartcards or with biometrics. 

Our smartcards are about the size of a credit card and fit nicely into most wallets. The Radio Frequency technology means that you don’t need to physically swipe the cards, just hold them up near the reader terminal. This reduces wear and tear.

 

For the ultimate deterrent against time theft, we can provide a hand scanner and/or a fingerprint reader. Smartcards can be lost, or swapped with colleagues to input fake times. This isn’t the case with hands and fingers!