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More than a third of organizations are facing a significant increase in the level of staff presenteeism (workers coming to work while sick), figures from CIPD’s recent Absence Management Survey 2015 strongly suggest. The survey of 600 employers, representing more than 1.5 million staff and conducted in partnership with Simply Health, revealed that this is […]

Securing a construction site means that you’ll have to address a unique set of challenges, especially when dealing with a large site where there are multiple access points and numerous subcontractors. And one of the best ways to deal with such a set of issues is the deployment of a solid and reliable biometrics-based time […]

British Standard BS7958 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) – Management and operation – Code of Practice has recently undergone multiple changes designed to take into account the latest legislation, the BSIA has revealed. BS7958:2015 offers guidelines and recommendations for the management and operation of CCTV within controlled environments where data – which might later be offered […]

A new biometric time and attendance monitoring system will try to tackle the problem of absenteeism by doctors and other health staff at two government hospitals in the city of Meerut, a district headquarters in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. According to a local news source, instructions have been passed by the district magistrate […]

Working grandparents will be able to take paid time off to look after their grandchildren under new plans revealed by the government to extend the shared parental leave scheme, a recent news report has been able to reveal. Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the new plans at the Conservative Party conference that began in Manchester this week. Under […]

Locum medical staff will cost the NHS around 1 billion pounds in 2015/2015, as the service is having some major issues in recruiting permanent members of staff, recent figures have been able to reveal. Almost 85 per cent of locum shift doctors were needed to cover unfilled staff vacancies this year, an increase of 18.6 […]

Schools and educational institutions can boost their productivity and better manage staff by implementing a comprehensive biometric time and attendance system. This is precisely the decision taken by the City School District of New Rochelle in New York, the United States, who will implement a biometric time and attendance system that will be used to […]

Making sure that one’s Smart Card-Based Access Control System is secure and protected against any threats is a vital issue nowadays, especially since there are several ways in which an attacker could potentially leverage security shortcomings to their own advantage via skimming, eavesdropping and relay attacks. RFID devices are typically used as proximity or smart […]

Around a third of UK and US employees are seriously considering changing jobs within the next 6 months, a recent survey has been able to reveal. The poll of 2,000 US and UK employees and HR leaders suggests that sixty percent of HR leaders believe that their companies provide employees with a clear career path […]

A campaign that aims to dramatically improve the safety of automated gates in the UK has received a significant boost with the UK’s leading safety charities, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and British Safety Council, coming on board. The campaign organised by the Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) Powered Gate Group […]

Nearly two thirds of British SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) are optimistic about the growth of their business and are thriving as a result of owning their own business, according to a recent survey by AXA PPP healthcare. SME owners also recognised the greater flexibility (58 per cent) and the greater freedom (37 per cent) that […]

Employers must become more productive in order to cope with the burden that will be brought along by the National Living Wage, a new research report from the CIPD has been able to reveal. The research revealed that, spite two years of growth, a fifth (21%) of companies are not currently making the necessary investments […]