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Employers in the construction industry are being urged to check their employees’ cards electronically after the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) and the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) have revoked 4,615 cards, following investigations into fraudulent activity at five test centres. CSCS wrote to all affected card holders in November to tell them that they […]

The Smart Card Alliance has had a very successful year in 2016 by accelerating the use and widespread adoption of smart card technology across a variety of sectors, including that of Access Control Systems. The Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association working to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread application of smart card technology […]

More than two fifths of companies plan to grow their workforce this year, but skills shortages and rising labour costs are presenting firms with serious challenges, recent data from the CBI/Accenture Employment Trends Survey 2015 suggests. The survey found that rising labour costs through the planned National Living Wage (NLW) and the apprenticeship levy are […]

The global biometric access control systems market is set to record double-digit growth rates from 2015 to 2019, a recent market research report has been able to reveal. The report from Technavio estimated that the global biometric access control market will be close to $12.4 billion by 2019, up from its $5.3 billion value in […]

The UK’s economic growth slowed down slightly in the three months leading to January, with fairly modest expectations for the next quarter, data from the latest CBI Growth Indicator has been able to find. The poll queried 759 respondents across the manufacturing, retail and services sectors and found that the pace of growth dropped to […]

The implementation of biometric time and attendance systems across the retail sector represents a major driver in the market and will also lead to significant growth in the next few years, a recent news report by TechNavio has been able to suggest. Increasing numbers of organizations are implementing biometric time and attendance tracking systems as […]

A comprehensive visitor monitoring system capable of checking every person that enters a prison facility with a minimum level of user interaction should really be a must have for any modern prison that wants to curb the dangerous phenomenon of drug smuggling. Monitoring systems are particularly important as just about anyone can be a smuggler […]

The UK Government’s office space will be reduced by 75% by 2023, a recent news report has been able to reveal. According to reports, civil servants will operate in just 200 offices, down from 800 today, and the Whitehall estate in central London will shrink to just 20 buildings by 2025. That comes after since […]

Workforce Management Systems can really come in handy for companies whose ranks include a large number of millennials, as they are more demanding on managers’ time and need more support in the workplace than any other generation, according to a recent survey. The poll by Cascade HR found that 48 percent of managers felt millennial […]

Firms that undergo major changes, typically involving large-scale redundancies, will benefit from having a comprehensive time and attendance and personnel management system installed, as it typically streamlines work for their respective HR departments. The latest company to find itself in such an unfortunate situation is none other than Big Six Energy Supplier British Gas, who […]

Adopting flexible working options has resulted in improvements in profits and productivity, results from an extensive research initiative across 8,000 global employers and employees, conducted by Vodafone, have suggested. The report, titled ‘Flexible: Friend or Foe?’ questioned employers from small and medium-sized businesses, public sector organisations and multinational corporations (MNCs) in 10 different countries and […]

The vast majority (80%) of the security industry believes that the use of mobile devices in access control systems will increase the level of vulnerability to cyber attacks, a recent report from HID Global has found. In The Access Control Report 2016: Legacy Infrastructure and Motivations for Upgrading, published in association with HID Global, 72% […]