An online car retailer is set to go on a recruitment drive as part of an expansion of its Manchester tech hub, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest.
Online car marketplace Cinch has partnered with Talent Works on the venture, on the back of digital car sales soaring in popularity, and will create around 100 new jobs in the coming year.
Technology director Jaz Chana said: "Workplaces and ways of working have seen much change in the past year.
"Our people have adapted incredibly well right across our business and kept their collective foot down on our accelerated growth plans.
"Now we're in the enviable position of attracting more of the market's best tech talent to exciting new opportunities in our burgeoning Manchester tech hub."
Neil Purcell, chief executive of Talent Works, added: "Watching Cinch's growth over the past year has been incredible; it's fantastic that they are now in a position to scale so quickly.
"We're very excited to be partnering with them to deliver the talent they need, at scale."
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A major increase in staff numbers, such as Cinch is planning, 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?).
Incorrect data can also foul up HR tasks too, making it much more difficult to spot issues like adherence to the Working Time Directive or someone taking three 30 minute breaks plus lunch.
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