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Time and attendance systems that incorporate advanced employee management features are likely to come particularly in handy over the course of 2015, as almost 40 percent of workers across the UK have revealed plans to seek alternate employment if they don’t receive a pay rise, a recent news report in the local media has been […]

Time and attendance systems could help deliver improved skills management functionality and tackle the issue of skills shortages, a problem employers should take responsibility for, especially in the construction industry. The GMB, the union for construction workers, claims that employers in the sector should take full responsibility for the skill shortages due to lack of […]

IP-based access control is becoming increasingly important for the transportation vertical, where ensuring that only authorized and vetted members of personnel have access to specific, high-security areas is vital. Each transportation centre needs solutions that can accommodate high-volume traffic and also meet their unique requirements in terms of ease of access, security, etc. In fact, […]

Thousands of new homes and jobs could be created as part of a major redevelopment scheme set out by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, within the draft London Riverside Opportunity Area Planning Framework (OAPF). The blueprint sets out planning, regeneration and design guidance that will to the creation of 26,500 new homes and up […]

British small and medium enterprises are likely to upgrade their technological assets this year to take advantage of the economic recovery, a recent report could reveal. The paper by Virgin Media Business suggests that SMEs are likely to upgrade their old equipment this year, which would certainly provide a welcome boost for all providers. “2015 […]

The government’s failing energy efficiency strategy for the commercial sector is putting an unnecessary strain on businesses’ energy bills, a new TUC report argues today. Efforts by government to boost commercial energy efficiency are not working, and end up costing UK businesses millions of pounds every year, says the TUC within the “Money to Burn” […]

Biometric time and attendance systems are likely to become commonplace across schools in Saudi Arabia, as the country’s education minister has revealed plans to float tenders for such systems as soon as it drafts the specification handbook for the program, according to a news report in the local media. The ministry opened the bidding process where […]

The industrial access control and security systems market was valued at around $25 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $38 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 8.69%, a recent report by ResearchandMarkets has been able to reveal. On the basis of systems the industrial security systems market is categorized into video […]

Attendance software can help companies of any size and scope gain very valuable insight into their employees’ working behaviours, recent research on technology and the workforce by Dell and Intel can suggest. The Global Evolving Workforce study revealed that 26% of UK workers are taking work calls and 41% are checking work emails after hours. […]

General UK unemployment has fallen by 97,000 to 5.7% for the working population between October and December 2014, the latest statistical releases by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) have been able to reveal. Within the aforementioned interval, there were 30.90 million people in work, 103,000 more than for July to September 2014 and 608,000 […]

A biometric access control systems has been installed in order to grant authorized personnel access to a local government building in Hawaii after-hours, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal. The Hawaii State Capitol has installed a biometric access control system that reads the veins of the authorized individual’s […]

Tracking employee time and attendance, especially for retailers that may have more than one location with both office and field-based workers, can become a very difficult task, but a remote clocking system can streamline the process and make it easier and faster. A modern workforce management system equipped with remote clocking features can help improve […]