Time and attendance systems can help maintain staff productivity levels

Time and attendance systems can easily provide accurate and up-to-date information on employee activity and performance, thus helping managers maintain productivity levels. Productivity (or lack thereof) is a vital topic nowadays, with average revenue generated by each full time UK employee dropping back £108,000 from £139,000 in 2010, according to a recent PwC report. The […]

Management of Contractors and Visitors System can help curb site vandalism

A proper Management of Contractors and Visitors System can help curb theft and vandalism on UK building sites by easily tracking individuals and maintaining a history of who visited each site. The construction industry is severely affected by site thefts and vandalism, total costs rising to £400m a year or more than £1m a day, […]

Mobile Access Control set to greatly improve the tenancy experience

Mobile access control systems could potentially overhaul the tenancy experience, enabling fast and easy access to a building’s premises and other advanced technologies (such as energy management systems, for example) by using solely one’s smartphone. As part of an ongoing effort to demonstrate the possible applications of a mobile access control system, HID Global created […]

Proper skills management of older employees could add 88 billion pounds to the UK’s GDP

Putting in place proper skills management systems and harnessing the skills and experience of more than a million people over the age of 50 that are still ready and willing to work could help British companies add an extra £88 billion to the UK’s GDP, a recent report by PRIME was able to reveal. The […]

How to monitor attendance and worked hours for building contractors by using CSCS cards

Monitoring attendance and worked hours for building contractors is a major issue for residential developers, mostly because, in order to do so, they typically need to issue additional access cards. Putting in place proper systems designed to monitor attendance for contractors is particularly useful nowadays, as the construction of new homes in the UK reached […]

Time and attendance systems could help tackle absenteeism in the third sector

Solid and reliable time and attendance systems with extensive HR functionality are the perfect solution to help tackle some of the factors that challenge further growth in the third sector, namely employee turnover and absenteeism. According to figures published in the Agenda Consulting’s “People Count Third Sector” report, employee turnover in the voluntary sector has […]

Shrinking Technology boosts Biometric Fingerprint Readers’ Market

The shrinking of fingerprint sensors technology will have a very positive effect on the whole Biometric Fingerprint Readers’ market and their extensive range of applications, such as biometric access control and biometric time and attendance solutions, a recent paper from market researchers over at Research and Markets was able to reveal. The “Fingerprint Sensors Market […]

Fire roll call systems ensure health and safety on industrial estates

Fire roll call systems should be an essential provision for every industrial estate or facility, as they could potentially save the lives of every single member of staff on the premises in case of a serious blaze. This could have also been the case on an industrial estate in Upper Edmonton, where more than 50 […]

Intelligent employee management systems required to mitigate parental leave legislation changes

Intelligent employee management systems will prove to be extremely helpful in terms of helping companies mitigate the possible problems posed by changes in parental leave legislation that will come into force in December 2014. The majority of organizations are likely to be unprepared for the forthcoming changes, a recent news report on this topic was […]