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Offering employees the possibility of taking unlimited holiday instead of offering them flexible working conditions could represent a major alternative for numerous businesses and make it easier for them to monitor and manage employees, a top expert in the field of HR has recently argued. Director of EST Accountants Barry Esterhuizen believes that unlimited holiday, […]

Open standards between manufacturers of access control systems are a must-have nowadays, as end users and integrators require the flexibility and improved reliability that come from working with best-in-class technology rather than settling for products from a single, specific brand, Mitchell Kane, president of Vanderbilt Industries, has argued in a recent whitepaper. The paper argues […]

A major gas leak has led to the emergency evacuation of a very busy shop in Wigan in early August, a news report in the local media has been able to reveal. Fire crews were dispatched to the Co-operative store on Gathurst Road, Shevington, after shoppers reported smell of gas in store. All members of […]

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to recruit around 3,000 new workers on fixed 18-month contracts after making redundant thousands of full-time employees under a voluntary exit scheme, a news report has been able to reveal. A total of 3,824 staff opted to voluntarily leave the organisation at the end of June this […]

The financial services sector is a major driving force in the biometric time and attendance systems’ market, second only to government agencies, a recent market research report from Tractica has been able to reveal. The market research firm states that after the government, the financial services sector offers “the most mature market for biometrics technology”, […]

Although the majority of HR professionals believe workforce analytics technology could help them make better business decisions, around 83 percent of them do not currently have access to this sort of technology, research carried out by Source for Consulting in partnership with business applications and service provider, Advanced Business Solutions, has been able to reveal. […]

The CSCS has revealed plans to introduce a new set of measures as of the 1’st of October 2015 in order to pave the way for the eventual withdrawal of the Construction Related Occupations (CRO) card. The CRO card was introduced in 2005 at the request of industry and was intended for those occupations for […]

There were 744,000 people on zero hours contracts for their main job in the three months to June 2015, up from 624,000 people in the preceding quarter, recent figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have been able to reveal. On the other hand, ONS said that two-thirds of the growth in these […]

Recent security breaches have heightened the need to improve airport security and address concerns about domestic threats, and led the airline industry to start searching for more secure employee access control processes and technologies, industry experts have revealed. Stakeholders throughout the airport security process are increasingly turning to biometrics as a solution for secure passenger […]

A well-known European retailer has managed to cut its operational costs by an estimated 3 million Euros (2,19 Million Pounds) after deploying workforce management technology, a recent business news report on this topic can reveal. The Dutch discount retail chain HEMA is reported to have made big savings in its first six months using workforce […]

The level of optimist across the UK’s job market has reached its lowest level since the final quarter of 2012, a fresh report from one of the UK’s leading consulting firms has been able to reveal. The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey of 2,101 UK employers found that the national seasonally adjusted net employment outlook has […]

Employers should reconsider their policies towards flexible working or risk losing valuable, highly-skilled employees, a recent survey has been able to reveal. One in five working mums have been forced to leave their jobs after their request to work flexibly was rejected, according to research from specialist jobs website Workingmums.co.uk. The survey with more than […]