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Thousands of pounds worth of workmen’s tools, gardening tools and equipment have been stolen during a series burglaries at building sites, garden sheds and outbuildings in Uttlesford, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find. An Essex Police spokesman said: “In springtime we often notice an increase in shed burglaries. […]

The impact of flexible working legislation has been minimal in London, research from the CIPD has found. Despite the fact that, ever since July 2014, employees with at least 26 weeks’ service have been allowed to request flexible working, only around 52 per cent of Londoners enjoy any sort of flexible working, 2 per cent […]

Time and Attendance systems can prove to be highly valuable tools when dealing with low manning levels caused by strike actions, such as the ones that are likely to affect the Royal Mail and even the BBC, according to a recent report. Unite, the UK’s biggest trade union, said almost 4,900 of its members who […]

The biometric time and attendance systems and workforce management solutions’ market is expected to reach close to USD 26.57 billion in revenue by 2019, a new research report by Techavio has been able to suggest. The ‘Global Biometrics Market in Workforce Management 2015-2019’ suggests that the global biometric monitoring market in workforce management is likely […]

An advanced system designed to use CCTV cameras and automatic image recognition software to detect litter being dropped is currently being developed

British small and medium-sized (SME) manufacturers have continued to grow in the three months to July, but were slightly affected by a lower level of performance in terms of exports, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The survey of 408 companies reported steady growth in new domestic orders over the quarter and […]

The market for all biometric workforce management solutions (i.e., cloud-, software- and hardware-based) will reach US$600 million in sales by 2018, market researchers at Biometrics Research Group, Inc. have forecast within their latest market analysis report. The paper examines the growing demand for biometric applications for labor management, workforce productivity and time and attendance solutions. […]

Close to half of UK employees went to work despite being ill, a situation that seriously affects their overall productivity, recent data from the Health in the Workplace Report has been able to reveal. The research found that that 40% of employees have not taken a single day off for illness in the last 12 […]

The number of people taking up night shifts has increased significantly over the past couple of years, recent data published by TUC has been able to suggest. The report, titled ”A Hard Day’s Night”, points out that there has been a 6.9% increase in people working nights between 2007 and 2014. The number of women […]

The widespread adoption of biometric access control systems is likely to accelerate throughout 2016, recent market research has suggested. The global adoption of fingerprint-based solutions, from mobile devices to door controllers, will continue to expand and touch new markets in 2016, with the legacy passwords and PINs slowly losing ground in the fields of logical […]

Granting employees the freedom of flexible working is starting to become an increasingly popular trend, even with employers where working long-hours in the office is somewhat of a well-established tradition, such as the legal sector. For example, Magic Circle law firm, Clifford Chance, has revealed it will be adopting an ‘agile working’ philosophy over the […]

A new biometric access system will help baseball fans enter the grounds of Coors Field stadium in Denver much faster than before, a recent news report has been able to find. The new system will enable the use of fingerprint recognition technology to screen entrants as they head into the venue. There will be a […]