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The level of unemployment across the UK dropped to 6.5% (or 2.12 million people), 121,000 fewer than for December 2013 to February 2014 and 383,000 fewer than a year earlier, the latest figures from the ONS were able to reveal.

Employee time management systems are particularly useful when firms make extensive use of temporary or agency workers, and this is something they seriously consider, given the high level of popularity this form of employment enjoys at this time.

Implementing a secure and reliable solution for managing the evacuation of personnel working within a plant in case of an emergency is really a vital measure for the industrial segment, considering just how dangerous and potentially deadly a fire can prove to be in this environment.

The UK’s small and medium businesses (SMBs) have fully benefited from the economy’s strong growth, the latest SME Monitor published by the Aldermore Bank was able to reveal.

Only around a quarter of firms manage to use the various types of data they collect in an effective manner, a recent survey of 288 IT professionals was able to reveal.

Employees start to feel tired and lose their productivity just eight weeks after returning from holidays, a recent survey of more than 2,000 British workers was able to reveal.

Close to a third of small and medium businesses are not properly upholding employee rights legislation by not offering flexible working arrangements to staff, a recent media news report into this matter was able to reveal.

Over 75% of British businesses believe that they’ll be severely affected by a skills crisis over the next three years, results published in a report drawn up by The Prince’s Trust in partnership with HSBC have revealed.

Accurate time and attendance systems designed to meet the specific requirements of companies that decide to implement various remote and flexible working schemes will become increasingly important on the future, as more and more employees decide to embrace alternative working arrangements. Data from recent research carried out by the CIPD in partnership with the Agile […]

An employment tribunal’s decision that overtime can be taken into account when calculating holiday pay could have potentially devastating effects on British firms, business organizations have argued. That’s because millions of workers could now have their holiday pay recalculated to take into account overtime and commission after the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that it is […]

Reliable and accurate biometric time and attendance systems can help reduce workplace idleness and fraud, which can cost a business millions in lost revenue, Lund University sociologist Roland Paulsen has revealed in his latest book. The book, titled “Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance”, gives multiple examples of idleness in the workplace following interviews with […]

The living wage, a value based on the price of living factors including rent and the cost of basic retail items that differs from the National Minimum Wage, has reached £7.85 per hour, up from £7.65, the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Social Policy has announced. Research released today by KPMG reveals that, despite […]