Refurbished hotel for sale

The Dragon, a grade-II listed hotel in the town of Montgomery, is up for sale for over a million pounds.

The former coaching inn has a traditional timber exterior but is fully refurbished on the inside. It has 20 bedrooms, a bar, a pool, a restaurant that can serve 40 covers at once, and a cottage for owners or managers. It was purchased and refurbished in 2013, doubling net revenue, and it now being sold as the owners pursue other interests.

Vendor Mark Cadwallader said: “Montgomery is a very attractive little town with a great community feel and a lovely place to live and run a business. It offers the best of both worlds, surrounded by the beautiful mid Wales countryside, ideal for walks and a more relaxed way of life, whilst only being 30 minutes away from Shrewsbury and the motorway network.”

Creating a brand-new hotel is the perfect time to examine the intended attendance policy and management, before bad habits sink in and while it is simple to install technology during the build process.

Thanks to a profusion of temporary, agency and zero-hour staff in the hotel industry, many payroll departments are still struggling with paper timesheets and sign-in books, self-reported by staff.

These have many disadvantages, including employees losing or forgetting them. Fraud and mistaken information is also likely to occur with this format. Stories abound online about employees filling in timesheets for shifts they never attended, not to mention the lesser evil of falsifying timesheets to hide lateness.

Paper timesheets are also hugely inefficient for payroll staff – they need to be collected, filed, and then their information transferred manually into the payroll system.

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance Wales will solve these issues. If employees have to clock in at the clocking terminal before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month.

Supervisors and managers can also check all of the timing data for their assigned team members easily within the software, which gets rid of squinting at bad handwriting, and also gets rid of the need to chase people up for handing them in late.

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