The 5000th job that the Accelerated Growth Programme has enabled was a factory operator for Wrexham-based Hi-Mark. 

 

"The Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme has been a real flag bearer for Business Wales and it’s fantastic to see that it’s now been directly responsible for some of our most ambitious and high potential SMEs creating 5,000 new jobs across Wales," said economy minister Ken Skates.

 

He added: "But what’s special about this programme isn’t just the growth it drives in companies but also the impact that in turn it is having on individuals the length and breadth of Wales."

 

Source: Insider Media Wales

 

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Many office-based businesses don’t see the point in using a time and attendance system, but we think differently.

 

We know from experience that companies find the data we can offer them very useful in building up a bigger picture of their employees’ punctuality and productivity. 

 

Our products are available for most sizes of business: the minimum number of employees needed for our software to work is 10, and there is no upper limit. 

 

For example, HR staff can very easily view and create reports about the absence or lateness occurrences for every single employee in the company. This could give them advance warning about morale problems in individual departments, or allow them to spot who generally rings in sick on a Monday or Friday. 

 

Companies who don’t use time and attendance systems often say that it is good enough for the management to require employees to ring them about absences, and that they will notice suspicious lateness patterns. 

 

But humans are fallible: that’s why we have computers! Unless the manager marks absences down on some sort of calendar they won’t notice any long-term patterns, and in some workplaces lateness can be missed if the manager isn’t actively watching the door! And what if the manager is away or off ill themselves?

 

Getting a system to take care of all this time-wasting monitoring for you is just common sense.

 

If you rent your premises, as most businesses do, especially SMEs, and cannot install any extra wiring, your employees can use our web-based attendance recording rather than our physical terminals. 

 

This is called the Self Service Module (SSM), and it allows employees to clock in and out using either a browser version, or a mobile phone app. They can also request holiday using this app, which eliminates the need for cumbersome paper holiday forms.