In Brief: TribePad; Eshton; Stagecoach
TJ MORRIS, the Liverpool-based retailer behind the Home Bargains discount stores chain, has chosen TribePad Social ATS as its partner to enable them to manage their ambitious staffing plans over the next five years.
TJ Morris plans to grow to 700 stores and employ more than 20,000 staff from its current 320 stores and 10,000 staff.
TJ Morris’ purpose-built £35m warehouse and distribution centre was completed in 2010 at the company’s headquarters in Gillmoss, to accommodate its rapid expansion.
Until now the recruitment process has been an offline, manual function but the company wanted to make the recruitment process more efficient and accessible to potential employees via a cloud based SaaS solution.
Laine Maw, human resources manager at TJ Morris, said: “By partnering with innovative experts in this field we are able to increase our recruitment volumes, reduce our costs and shorten the recruitment cycle and ultimately deliver a service to our stores in the best possible way.”
Lisa Scales, co-founder of TribePad, added: “This contract win really shows another great example of TribePad fulfilling its promise to be the ATS of choice for businesses which are growing and require enterprise level software with innovation and ultimate service levels.”
TribePad is a Social ATS platform enabling corporate businesses to streamline their direct hiring and recruitment efforts enabling them to save on time and resources.
The company is based in Sheffield and serves a global customer base which includes BBC, Tesco, G4S.
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PLANS have been submitted for a fourth speculative unit at the £50m Burnley Bridge Business Park.
The planned industrial space at Magnesium Court will add 10,000 sq ft to the 29,000 sq ft of blocks A and B which, together with the 64,100 sq ft Cobalt Building, form phase one at the 70-acre site.
Burnley Bridge is being developed by Leeds-based Eshton at junction 9 of the M65.
Managing director James Chapman said: “Burnley Bridge Business Park has been designed and masterplanned to offer a wide variety of flexible accommodation for industrial or distribution occupiers.
“The high level of interest received on the initial build has confirmed confidence in the market. By providing further speculative space in a phased manner, we are responding directly to pent-up demand for quality product and location.”
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FREE Wi-Fi for Stagecoach bus passengers has been introduced on a further four vehicles in Sheffield.
The facility has been launched on the new Enviro 200 buses, which recently entered service on Stagecoach’s 123 service operating between Crystal Peaks and the city centre via Woodhouse and Manor Top.
It was part of a £1.5m investment by operator Stagecoach in December 2013 in a fleet of 13 new buses for Sheffield and Chesterfield.
The new Wi-Fi facility means that passengers can browse the internet, check their emails and post on social media sites while travelling to and from work or leisure activities.
Since Stagecoach first launched Wi-Fi on its Sheffield buses in 2011, it has seen more than 53,000 unique users who use the service over 130,000 times a month spending an average of 21 minutes online.
