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The UK economy is on course to grow by an estimate 2.5 percent in 2015 and a further 2.4 percent in 2016, a new report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has been able to reveal. Within this new report, the organization has forecast that unemployment will stabilise at about 5.25 […]

Around 63% of British employees fear theft, physical attack and trespassers in their workplaces, figures from the ‘CCTV in the Workplace’ survey by NG Bailey have been able to reveal. The poll found that most workers would like to see some significant improvements in their working environments and their CCTV systems. In fact, 60% of […]

A prison visitor monitoring system can play a major part in preventing the smuggling and use of various illegal substances into prisons and correctional facilities, a concerning phenomenon that’s becoming increasingly widespread across the UK. The technology could even help officers identify and capture smugglers, as was the case with a visitor who smuggled heroin […]

Older workers who’re still fully capable to work are the key to preventing a genuine “talent gap” if they’re supported and flexible working options are made available to them, Business in the Community (BITC) has recently stated. The organization has urged businesses and the government to address the problems of over-50s employment, as more than […]

A new biometric system will fast-track access to sporting events on the AT&T Park stadium in San Francisco, home of the famous baseball team the San Francisco Giants, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal. The new biometric secure identity platform prescreens individuals, expediting the waiting process for fans […]

An employee management system can help businesses streamline and optimize the management processes for their growing mobile workforces, thus improving their overall productivity and helping them save more money on the long-run. Mobile employee management systems will enable staff to do their jobs most effectively by directing those nearest to a new job, which means […]

Biometric time and attendance systems can deliver irrefutable proof of attendance, but they can also create some level of controversy when the underlying technologies are not explained transparently enough during training and privacy-related concerns are not addressed in due time. This sort of situation has recently occurred in San Francisco, the United States, where city […]

Ensuring a very good level of security for all festival goers is a must for any event organizers, and Tensor’s Rapid Deployment Asset Protection System (RDAPS) is the perfect tool for the job, even for those areas where access to electricity is not readily available. This will also apply to the “unplugged” weekend put together […]

The ability to control access to a school’s premises and to thoroughly monitor whoever goes in or out should be a top priority in terms of school security, experts in this field have argued. School administrators are starting to realize the fact that campus security begins at the main entrance, because, without proper control of […]

UK organisations consistently show they are more likely to implement workforce management technology, such as absence and leave management or analytics compared to international counterparts, new research conducted by the Aberdeen Group has been able to reveal. The results of the Aberdeen Group report, Productivity: Managing and Measuring a Workforce (January 2015) confirm that organisations […]

Two Chinese universities, Henan University of Technology in Henan province and Minjiang University in Fujian province, have adopted facial recognition technology as the method of choice for monitoring student attendance and preventing students from registering other classmates on their behalf, a news report has been able to reveal. After Henan University of Technology’s School of […]

A Dubai bank has decided to bolster its security by commissioning vaults employing biometric access control, a specialist news source has revealed. The new vaults to be installed at the Dubai Islamic Bank feature advanced fire detection and suppression systems, external and internal CCTV monitors, and digitization capabilities, in addition to the aforementioned biometric security […]