This development, called Merlin Park, will be the only new high-specification business space on Portsea Island when the site opens next month. In fact, it’s the largest speculative industrial development in a decade, with seven units.

 

Stretching over 6.5 acres, the development supplies around 100,00 sq ft of employment space. This comes in the form of units for business, industrial and warehouse usage. The units all have an unusually high eaves of 9 metres. They are available on a leasehold basis, and are expected to be in high demand. 

 

Guy Jackson, Associate Director – Industrial at LSH’s South Coast offices, said: “Units of this size and quality are a rarity across the south and particularly in Portsmouth, where there is a desperate need for new stock to meet demand.

 

“Due to the strength of that demand, the accessible location of Merlin Park and the high quality of this development, we experienced significant levels of interest in these units even as they were coming out of the ground. Their height, in particular, makes them attractive to a range of businesses that require modern, spacious, flexible accommodation.

 

“We are excited to see the units so close to completion and are in discussions with several potential occupiers ahead of the site being handed over in August.

 

Director at Canmoor Developments, Tom Hughes, said: “Merlin Park is a major speculative development that represents a huge investment in Portsmouth, and confidence in its economy. Merlin Park will bring major employment and economic benefits to Portsmouth, and we are proud to have played our part in the continuing drive for regeneration in the city.”

 

It can be difficult for new managers to spot time fraud if they aren’t yet familiar with the building or their staff. Therefore, when businesses start up or expand into new buildings, it is important that they make sure their time-checks are as efficient and reliable as possible. 

 

Old-fashioned clocking in and out systems such as punch time clocks are prone to “buddy punching”, where employees fraudulently record their or another employee’s working time. Paper timesheets are also open to deliberate falsification, and payroll staff suffer from everyone’s bad handwriting!

 

At Time and Attendance Southern we offer specialised attendance management software which can work either with smartcards or with biometrics. As well as simply recording who has worked when, the WinTA.NET software suite can also set triggers for absenteeism alerts, generate user-defined reports, and export the data straight to all major payroll programmes. 

 

The smartcards (and the similar keyfobs) use well-proven and reliable Radio Frequency reading technology. Our cards are approximately the size of a standard credit card and are thin and flexible enough to be carried in your wallet. The Radio Frequency technology means that you don’t need to physically swipe the cards, just hold them up. This means they don’t wear down.

 

If you want the extra security of a biometric time attendance system, we can provide a hand scanner and/or a fingerprint reader. Smartcards can be lost, or swapped to input fake times. This isn’t the case with hands and fingers! 

 

The HSCAN Hand Scanner Terminal captures an image of the hand each time the employee punches. The hand’s size and the shape are used to verify their identity. No finger or palm prints are utilized.

 

Once registered on the fingerprint scanner, the image of the patterns usually found on one’s fingertips is converted into a code through a secure algorithm. Whenever registered users have their fingerprints scanned, the live fingerprint and the stored fingerprint template are compared.