Goonhilly’s new premises at the Cody Technology Park in Farnborough offers more space for the design engineering team, and will help to attract engineers to work at the forefront of the UK’s satellite communications sector. The investment required was provided by Peter Hargreaves, a founder of financial services giant Hargreaves Lansdown who invested £24m.

 

The current and new offices will work closely together. The new office will focus on deep space antenna array design and the current office will undertake the implementation.  

 

Goonhilly is also recruiting and investing in small-scale advanced manufacturing/production facilities, where it plans to build these next-generation systems once they are designed.

 

The new Farnborough office will be headed up by Goonhilly technical director and chief scientist Matt Cosby.

 

"With offices in both Cornwall and Farnborough, we will be able to expand and attract a wider pool of engineering talent, while the Farnborough office will also serve as a convenient meeting place for many of our customers and partners. It’s an exciting time to join or work with the Goonhilly team as we focus on helping to shape the new space economy with disruptive communications technologies," said Goonhilly chief executive Ian Jones.

 

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Goonhilly opening up a new building is a great sign of growth and ambition, especially as part of their wider expansion plan. However, it is vital that companies don’t overlook the “boring” aspects of running their business as they get excited about chasing the stars. 

 

An area which is often overlooked by forwards-focused companies is how they measure their time and attendance. This is particularly important if they are also recruiting new staff like Goonhilly are intending to, 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.

 

Commonly it leads to employees forgetting exact details of their shifts and filling the sheets in incorrectly, if at all. 

 

Next, somebody needs to collect all of those individual timesheets and enter all that data painstakingly into a spreadsheet in order to send it to the payroll software. 

 

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 fill in any paperwork, 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 Tensor.NET database. 

 

Payroll staff can then export the collected data later in the month in a format suitable for all the leading payroll programs.