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Personnel Management Systems featuring extensive team rostering capabilities could potentially help maintain and improve the overall levels of employee satisfaction within the workplace, especially since a recent survey found that team dynamics play the most important role in employee satisfaction, with two thirds enjoying being part of a team. The study into the behaviours of […]

The importance of Biometric Access Control is growing at a very fast pace in the increasingly complex world of digital identities and ever-expanding ecosystem of ID cards, phones and other devices, experts in the security field believe. In fact, biometrics is the only true means of linking or binding digital identities to the individual, determining […]

The market for global CCTV is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 12% during 2016-2022, data published in the latest study from Research and Markets, Global CCTV Market Forecast 2022, has been able to reveal. IP CCTV dominates the global CCTV market as technology has evolved to allow for a more diverse security […]

Fire Roll Call systems that are fully integrated within a building’s Time and Attendance or Access Control system provide a life-saving functionality in emergency situations when the rapid and orderly evacuation of personnel working on site is required. This is specifically the type of situation that has recently occurred at Southend Civic Centre in February, […]

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% […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]