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Soft skills, which include communication, teamwork and time management, contribute £88 billion to the UK economy, research by a campaign calling for the re-evaluation of soft skills has found. Research commissioned by the campaign led by McDonald’s forecasts that the value soft skills adds to the economy will increase to £109 billion over the next […]

The Access Control market across the Middle East is set to reach US$500 million by 2018, recording an average annual growth of 15 percent over the next few years, a recent research report has predicted. Worth US$200 million in 2014, the MEA access control market is estimated to grow 15 per cent annually up to […]

Time and attendance software can help managers take the best decisions in terms of prospective staffing levels and mitigate the effects of shared parental leave. That’s particularly important since more than half of the UK believes that childcare should be shared equally between parents, according to a recent survey by the Department for Business, Innovation […]

An estimate 23% of workers have requested flexible working despite more than half (54%) being aware of the government’s right to request legislation, a study by O2 Business has found. The survey of 2,000 UK workers suggested that the main reasons for not taking up flexible working are a lack of trust (chosen by 31% […]

Over 50 percent of all SMEs across the UK are experiencing increased operating costs, which is having a negative impact on small business cash flow, a recent survey has been able to reveal. The latest Close Brothers Business Barometer survey revealed that 59 per cent of UK SMEs are experiencing an increase in their operating […]

A secret room built within a house can improve the home’s overall level of security, and a biometric access control system is the best solution for restricting access to such an area. While secret rooms are particularly popular on movie sets and/or crime and spy novels, the truth of the matter is that they’re also […]

Central government employees are spending nearly twenty minutes extra in office every day after a biometric time and attendance system was installed across multiple offices across New Delhi, a news report on the matter has been able to reveal. If this is converted into working days, with an average of 8.5 hours per working day, […]

Time and attendance systems designed to monitor and manage workers’ activity can help companies better manage employee turnover, a phenomenon that is likely to affect up to 37 percent of UK workers in 2015. A survey from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) has revealed a dramatic increase in potential employee turnover from 2014, […]

36 percent of companies worldwide have partial or no appropriate physical access control systems in place, a recent study has been able to reveal. Trustwave’s 2014 State of Risk Report, a 16-month comprehensive survey of over 400 IT professionals in more than 50 countries, also found that 81 of companies percent state they have full […]

Employee management systems can help UK businesses grow and take on more work despite the ongoing capacity issues revealed by the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Over a third of UK businesses (36%) have no capacity to take on more work, and almost three in five (57%) have ‘little capacity’, […]

Biometric Access Control and multi-factor authentication could be used by up to 20 percent of enterprises by 2016, a recent report by IDC has forecast. In its FutureScape for Security report, the research company has addressed security concerns in a number of technology areas, including biometric identification and user management. The report predicts that in […]

Integrated Access Control Systems can help prevent crime against business premises, which accounted for 70% of all police recorded crime in 2013/14, according to figures released by the UK Statistics Authority and 82% of all crime covered by the 2013/14 Crime Survey for England and Wales. The crime survey focused on premises in four industry […]