BELFAST software firm WorkPal plans to double its workforce to 50 over the next two years after a £1 million investment.
The move by the company, which is part of the part of Barclay Communications Group, is required to meet what it says is unprecedented demand for its unique communication software product, which allows businesses to communicate effectively and efficiently in remote working setups.
The new jobs at WorkPal will span software development, consultancy and technical support roles that will allow a larger team to reach even more clients locally, nationally and internationally.
To complement the recruitment drive, WorkPal has injected £250,000 into a marketing campaign that will strategically target new customers and expose the new way businesses can work and communicate effectively when working remotely.
This, it says, will help grow the existing client base that spans over 500 businesses both at home and abroad.
Sales director Ian Megahey said: “Our customer base has grown rapidly this year as significant numbers of businesses actively look for innovative ways of communicating with their teams in increasingly remote working setups that have otherwise been foreign to their usual way of working.
“As a result of this demand, we've attracted a huge number of new customers and must recruit to allow that growth to continue at the speed and vigour it's at now.”
Established in 2011, WorkPal had sales of £3 million last year, but revenues are expected to be in excess of £5 million this year.
Mr Megahey added: “We have just completed our golden quarter, with Q3 of 2020 representing our best ever performing financial period.
“We’ve seen the uptake of WorkPal surge by almost 350 per cent during the last year alone but are confident that a new realisation of keeping communication tight among workplaces is key no matter what the social and economic climate.”
WorkPal is part of the Barclay Communications Group, which has been at the forefront of business-to-business mobile, hosted and fixed-line telecoms for more than 20 years.
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About WorkPal:
WorkPal is a powerful mobile workforce management software company revolutionising how businesses operate in increasingly remote working setups.
It is a software firm that is disrupting the workplace’s traditional methods for keeping track of their teams and operations.
The company’s flagship software product, WorkPal, not only offers reliability; it is a powerful piece of software that can take the load off how you monitor your workload and workforce, releasing businesses from the arduous paper-heavy operations of a bygone era and replacing them with a winning solution for mobile workflow management, reporting, tracking and invoicing.
It also allows for a full overview of all jobs, offering full transparency of who is where and doing what, when and boasts a Web App for Office PC users and a Smartphone App format.
The software will instantly synchronise the paperwork of office and field-based teams, transforming the distribution, management and time frames of jobs, paperwork and invoicing.
Cost-effective with a proven record of reducing operating costs, WorkPal, is the creative genius of a forward-thinking software team with a leading reputation in communications.
It is the successful conclusion of Ian Megahey, Sales Director at WorkPal's hard work, research and extensive experience in mobile workforce software solutions. Ian, an expert in the comms sector with a profound insight into the UK communications market and his team's collective back history and knowledge base have unfolded some of the industry’s leading tools to make life easier for businesses.
And today, WorkPal has evolved from being an invaluable add-on for any business to become a requisite to help companies stay organised and focused during the increasingly volatile working environment we are operating in.
Its success in its eight years of existence has surpassed targets with subscription uptake surging by almost 350% during the Covid-19 pandemic* alone. (*Compared to the same period in 2019, WorkPal uptake during the Coronavirus pandemic was up by 340%.)
WorkPal is a signature product that allows streamlining operations to become an easy, effective process. It’s
