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A recent suspected fire in Northamptonshire turned out to be something else entirely once firefighters arrived on the scene. Steve Dockerty, 63, received a call from his alarm company to check that everything was fine, since his fire alarm had gone off. This time, the alarm was a false activation, and Steve Dockerty assured them […]

Well-known sandwich chain Pret A Manger will pay nearly $1m in order to settle a lawsuit where it was claimed the company underpaid its New York staff. The lawsuit alleged that US labour laws were violated due to an illegal practise called “time-shaving”. This is when a company “rounds down” or misrepresents employee working hours […]

A significant fall in the supply of both EU and non-EU migrant workers has created a significant ‘supply shock’ for UK employers, the latest quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey from the CIPD and The Adecco Group has been able to reveal. Results of the poll suggests that while the short-term outlook for employment remains strong, […]

The demand for flexible working spaces is set to grow by up to 30% annually for the next five years across Europe, according to a report by property firm Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL), which is likely to disrupt workforce management practices for a very large number of companies. The report suggests that the main reason […]

Deploying a biometric time and attendance system has helped improve staff punctuality, as well as the quality of service they delivered for the Local Government in Srinagar, a news report in the local media has suggested. Srinagar is the largest city and the summer capital of the Indian-occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Local […]

Tensor plc, the UK based, award winning market leaders in the design, manufacture and installation of security, access control, attendance monitoring and energy management/monitoring solutions is proud to announce that we will attend the International Security Expo 2018, where we will exhibit our latest cutting-edge security, facial recognition and access control solutions at Stand K62 […]

Fire roll call systems can help improve the emergency fire evacuation procedures in care homes by ensuring the nominal roll is taken in a very fast manner and all members of staff and residents are accounted for. This exact situation has recently occurred at a care home in Swanage, in Cauldon Avenue, where residents had […]

Being able to identify undesired individuals and adding them to easily enforceable blacklists has always been an important element of the gambling industry, and now technology is making it even easier with the help of the latest-generation facial recognition biometric identification solutions. According to industry sources, casinos and other hospitality businesses have tested facial recognition […]

The Access Control Systems’ market is posed to reach an impressive 35.51 billion globally by 2023 a recent market research report from Zion Market Research has been able to suggest. In the coming years, increase in security budgets for safeguarding critical infrastructure across countries is expected to continue driving the demand for physical security systems. […]

As more and more organizations are becoming interested in gaining better control over visitor movement in their premises, the global visitor management systems’ market is set to record a strong level of growth between 2017 and 2027, a recent market research report from Future Market Insights has been able to suggest. Visitor management systems are […]

With the 29th March 2019 fast approaching, employment laws are one of the many issues still to be ironed out. The most prominent of these is the Working Time Directive. The Institute for Public Policy Research has created a report called A level playing field for workers to examine the current situation and suggest future plans. […]

According to a 2013 market research report, traditional timesheets are disliked and very inaccurate. 423 people with responsibility for employee tracking were surveyed. 50% of these said that in their company or department, users disliked entering timesheet info more than they disliked expense reporting or time off reporting. All you have to do is to […]