Trafford Park hotel up for sale

The Trafford Park Hotel, which was built in 1902, has been put up for auction, via Pugh’s COVID19-compliant online auction procedure.

The grade II listed building has been closed since 2009, and is up for a guide price of £750,000.

Edward Feather, an associate director and auctioneer at Pugh, said: “This is a truly amazing opportunity for an imaginative investor to purchase a unique landmark building that was central to Manchester’s industrial heritage as part of the world’s first industrial estate at Trafford Park.

“Although the hotel has been vacant for over a decade and is in need of a comprehensive refurbishment, it is an incredible building with exciting redevelopment potential.”

Creating a brand-new hotel is the perfect time to examine the intended attendance policy and management, before bad habits sink in and while it is simple to install technology during the build process.

Thanks to a profusion of temporary, agency and zero-hour staff in the hotel industry, many payroll departments are still struggling with paper timesheets and sign-in books, self-reported by staff.

These have many disadvantages, including employees losing or forgetting them. Fraud and mistaken information is also likely to occur with this format. Stories abound online about employees filling in timesheets for shifts they never attended, not to mention the lesser evil of falsifying timesheets to hide lateness.

Paper timesheets are also hugely inefficient for payroll staff – they need to be collected, filed, and then their information transferred manually into the payroll system.

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance North East will solve these issues. If employees have to clock in at the clocking terminal before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month.

Supervisors and managers can also check all of the timing data for their assigned team members easily within the software, which gets rid of squinting at bad handwriting, and also gets rid of the need to chase people up for handing them in late.

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