TemporResources & Guides
Practical, no-fluff guides for UK construction and field-service teams — time tracking, payroll, compliance and the admin that eats your week.
Working Time Regulations: The 48-Hour Week, Opt-Outs and Rest Breaks
The 48-hour week is an average over 17 weeks, not a weekly cap. The written opt-out, how to cancel it, and the rest breaks most rotas miss.
Payroll & complianceGPS Tracking of Employees: What UK Law Actually Allows
Legal in the UK — but only if it is proportionate. The ICO’s five tests, why all-day tracking usually fails them, and the biometric trap that caught Serco Leisure.
Time & attendanceThe Real Cost of Paper Timesheets for UK Construction Firms
Filled in from memory, impossible to verify, and too late to act on — where paper timesheets quietly cost you money, and what a verified clock-in replaces them with.
Time & attendanceHow to Create a Staff Rota: A UK Small-Business Guide
Forecast the cover you need, work around availability and holiday, pick a shift pattern, respect the working-time rules, and track actual hours against the plan.
Payroll & complianceHow to Run Payroll for a Small Business (UK)
PAYE and RTI in plain English — one-time setup, the per-payday cycle, construction extras like CIS crews, and the mistakes to avoid.
Payroll & complianceHow to Calculate Holiday Entitlement for Hourly & Part-Time Workers (UK)
The 5.6-week minimum, pro-rata part-time sums, the 12.07% method for casual hours and rolled-up holiday pay — with worked examples.
Time & attendanceHow to Track Employee Hours: A UK Small-Business Guide
Methods compared, what every record must capture, breaks & overtime rules, and turning hours into payroll.
Time & attendanceHow to Stop Buddy Punching on Construction Sites
What it is, what it costs, and the two features that stop it — GPS geofencing and facial-recognition clock-in.
Payroll & complianceCIS Payroll for Construction: A Subcontractor Deductions Guide
20% vs 30%, UTR & verification, the monthly statement you must issue, and a worked example.
Templates & how-toFree Construction Timesheet Template
A copy-paste weekly template, what every timesheet should capture, and where spreadsheets start costing you.
Customer storySTF Electrics Case Study
How a UK electrical contractor uses face-verified clock-in, geofencing and day-rate invoicing to track a mobile, bilingual crew.