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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 […]

Employers take on agency workers to gain “short-term access to key strategic skills” rather than taking on permanent members of staff, a recent survey has been able to reveal. Three-quarters of firms (75%) use agency workers, the latest Jobs Outlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found, while 92% of employers say temporary […]

Close to 700,000 employees are currently on zero-hours contracts in the UK, the latest statistical figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have been able to reveal. Separate ONS data shows that 1.8 million zero-hours contracts were used by businesses during the height of summer 2014. Conor D’Arcy, policy analyst at think tank the […]

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) top efficiency charts in terms of maximising staff talent to boost productivity, a study by the UK Commission for Employment Skills (UKCES) has been able to reveal. The report, Growth through People: Evidence and Analysis, based on interviews with 90,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), organized companies in five different […]

The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) is urging construction companies to make their building sites smarter by implementing latest-generation CSCS card technology supplied by its IT partners. Using the technology available with CSCS cards can help to improve efficiency and cut costs involved in recording workers’ CSCS data. It is really simple to set up […]

Having the right systems in place to enable an orderly and efficient evacuation in case of an emergency is a must for most companies, especially those in the leisure industry, where members of public, as well as employees, could be in serious danger. That was specifically the case with the Basingstoke Aquadrome, where an emergency […]