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With the bank holidays and the Royal wedding out of the way, it is time to focus on summer and the tourist season. It is important to make sure that the right people are working at the right time of day to cover the expected trade. Fourth are constantly providing ways to help customers to manage staff levels and understand business performance. Functionality within the people system allows companies to create "Metrics". These indicators can be used to help measure the success of your business. Fourth are pleased to offer 12 free spaces on a Metrics workshops in the training section below.

Fourth are also pleased to announce the launch of the first legal workshops in Get involved. Candey LLP are delivering breakfast sessions in their fantastic offices in Central London and will be discussing the issue Tackling the Sickie. Make sure to get a place by registering interest today.

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Paul Watson
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Roman Polanski once remarked that "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre". So where can you enjoy a cinematic experience, where you can enjoy cupcakes and chocolate raisins or swap your soft drink for a nice glass of red wine, and where the cinema feels almost like a home from home? This is where Everyman steps in. We believe in creating a truly unique and memorable cinema experience that exceeds expectations and reaches the highest standards possible in quality, comfort and entertainment.

"Working with fourth Hospitality on the success project for our rota system was fantastic. All our managers found it really beneficial to get in depth, personal training on the HR element of the program. Fourth Hospitality were able to show us tips on how better to understand and analyze budgets and have also enabled us to keep track of all training for our employees. The follow up meetings were really beneficial to ensure we had got the best from the sessions, which was very helpful. I'd highly recommend the Success Project."
Eileen O'Shea - Everyman Media Group
 
 

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Hi, I'm Sarah Edmonds and I am the Payroll Project Manager at Fourth.

I have worked for Fourth since 2004, I joined as a Payroll Administrator working in the payroll bureau in Macclesfield. During my time in the bureau I had a varied number of roles which gave me a really good understanding of the system from both a front end perspective and also from a development perspective.

In November 2010, I left the bureau and moved to the London Office to start my current role. I specialise in the payroll module of the Fourth system, the majority of the time I spend with the Projects Team working on new implementations. In addition I also spend time with the Success Team and Relationship Managers assisting them with any payroll related matters, which means no day is ever the same.

The most enjoyable element of my role is being able to pass my enthusiasm for the product onto customers both new and existing; this can be through running a demonstration of the system for potential new customers or by running payroll reporting workshops for clients.

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Fourth are hosting metrics workshops in our Covent Garden office on the 16th and 30th of June.

This session explains how to set up metrics and will allow attendees to talk through examples with people in a similar role to understand what measurements can help drive businesses forwards.

» Book the 16th of June (13:00-16:00)
» Book the 30th of June (14:00-17:00)

Alternatively book a place on one of the free webinars.

 
 

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Fourth are pleased to offer limited spaces to our Tackling the sickie session. This breakfast session is presented by Candey LLP, a dynamic law firm situated in the heart of London. These sessions gives the opportunity to share thoughts with people in similar positions, discussing issues that employers face on a daily basis while being given free legal advice from the legal team at Candey.

» Session content and booking

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When you have finished forecasting the rota don't forget to use the Print functionality on the system (found in the centre of the rota screen). The rota print view can be customised; Select the name options, deciding whether to see the employees actual name or preferred name. Choose whether to see the actual shift codes, actual shift start and end times or both. Then click the run report button and print.

To add additional information to the rota it can be exported into excel where it can then be customised further.

 
 

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people system - The training module allows companies to map out individuals development paths. people system can now be configured so that the course booking appears on the rota. This helps managers to plan their rota better and understand where people are available to work.

fnb manager - Batches: to ensure correct removal of stock from the storeroom, check that batches are ticked to be produced on site where applicable. If the batch is visible on the stock reconciliation (not under the batch analysis) then it's not been ticked to be produced on site.

trade simple - Received an emergency order over the phone? Create a purchase order confirmation from scratch to start the electronic threading. Click Confirmation Entry on the side menu and manually enter the order details.

star chef - StarChef.NET has a powerful menu modelling function that allows companies to replicate all menus and determine an accurate theoretical GP%. Function menus can be developed for individual clients that allow users to quickly model the price the client needs to pay to protect the expected GP%.

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