The company, which uses data and machine learning to protect brands, currently has an office in Caerphilly, where they have grown their team from 3 employees up to 50. Their new Cardiff premises are located in the area that was Cardiff’s first fish market on the Hayes. 

 

Simon Baggs, chief executive at Incopro said: "The language, data analysis and software engineering skills of the people we have been able to hire in Cardiff has exceeded our expectations. Cardiff is our focus for expansion in the next 12 months as we extend our global service.

 

"We are proud to have given new life to a previously abandoned historic building with real character for our new offices, right in the city centre, giving our people a fantastic working environment in which they will thrive.

 

"The Welsh Government’s support was instrumental in our initial choice of Wales. The global business climate is challenging but our talented team in Cardiff contributes massively to the great service we offer our global brand customers and our continued expansion."

 

Source: Insider Media Wales

 

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An area which is often overlooked as companies expand and grow is how they measure their time and attendance. This is particularly important when they are recruiting new staff, since this puts more strain on existing processes.

 

The least effective form of time and attendance management is still practiced by hundreds of companies all over the country – the self-reporting paper timesheet.

 

The process typically goes like this: every week or month an employee hand-writes on a printed sheet how many hours they worked on which days during that period. 

 

As you can imagine, this is very likely to lead to people forgetting exact details of their shifts (not to mention being a massive waste of paper). Inexact recording of hours can lead to potential infringements of the Working Time Directive, amongst other issues like tax discrepancies due to incorrect payslips. 

 

Once the first hurdle of employee submission is cleared, this method still has problems up ahead. The next stage is that somebody needs to collect all of those individual timesheets and enter all that data number by number into a spreadsheet in order to send it to the payroll software for processing. 

 

There are a number of workarounds to these problems. Letting employees submit timesheets via email gets rid of the handwriting and environment issues, and making your employees fill in their entrance and exit times on a sign-in/sign-out sheet on the desk makes it less likely they will forget what they have worked. 

 

However, the best solution is to centralise and automate both those parts of the process. With our clocking stations and top-quality time and attendance software, we can do exactly this. 

 

Employees no longer have to spend time and energy filling in the forms, because all they need to do is just clock in or out using their smartcards or fingerprints. The process is over in less than a second, and the data is then automatically sent to the central database. 

 

Payroll staff no longer need to squint at bad handwriting and hope that this number is a 7, not a 1, because the collected data can be exported quickly and easily, in a format suitable for all the leading payroll programs.