Housing Technology has just published ‘The E-State of the Nation 2018/19’ report, covering UK social housing providers’ current and future plans for their IT estates and how technology underpins all of their business operations. The report is based on a comprehensive online survey of over 150 senior IT and business executives from UK housing providers…
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Human Resources
MHS Homes moves to MHR
MHS Homes has reported how it moved to a digital HR system during the summer of 2018. The housing provider’s ‘My Space’ is built on MHR’s (formerly Midland HR) platform and enables MHS staff to book annual leave, check holiday balances, submit and see overtime, mileage and expense claims, update their personal details and see…
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Spectrum Housing Group saves £50,000 a year with Advanced’s MobileHR
Spectrum Housing Group is saving over £50,000 each year and improving employee engagement using MobileHR, a mobile HR system from Advanced Business Solutions. MobileHR allows Spectrum’s staff to submit expenses, holiday requests and declare business hospitality gifts via their smartphone and tablet devices, allowing the HR team to focus on more value-adding activities. Line managers…
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Aspire Group celebrates milestone with 300th apprentice
Continuing Housing Technology’s ongoing support for housing providers and IT suppliers to the housing sector who take on apprentices, we are pleased report that Aspire Group has recently taken on its 300th apprentice. Aspire Housing bought a training company in 2008 in order to help young people into work. Since then, PM Training has trebled…
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Cascade HR & payroll for Shepherd’s Bush Housing
Shepherd’s Bush Housing Group is using new HR and payroll software from Cascade to support its 290-strong workforce, including a wide variety of payroll scenarios. These include different ways of handling sick pay and additional payments for washing machine installations, overnight ‘sleep ins’ for supported housing and out of hours work for maintenance operatives. Katie…
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Success for Sentinel’s IT apprentice
Sentinel Housing has just taken on one of its apprentices as a full-time member of its IT team. Adrian Dunwell joined Sentinel’s apprenticeship scheme in September 2013 straight after leaving school in Wokingham. Adrian Dunwell said, “Originally I wanted to go to university, but I didn’t want the stress of debts and financial problems when…
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