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Biometric access control systems’ market is set to record the highest level of growth by 2019, a recent market research report by Persistence Market Research has suggested.

Smart personnel management systems can help boost employee productivity by providing unprecedented insight into employee’s performance and enabling managers to take the right decisions based on factual data. In fact, offering employees the option of gaining performance-related pay is one way to increase workplace productivity in the UK, according to a paper by the Centre […]

British Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owners are extremely confident about their five-year growth prospects, with a fifth saying that their businesses had never been in better shape, a recent survey was able to reveal. The annual business growth survey by Santander Corporate & Commercial bank suggested that businesses with an annual turnover of up […]

Biometric access control systems are starting to become the solutions of choices for organizations looking to implement a fast, reliable and secure means of restricting and securing building access and authenticating identity. Despite being faster and cheaper to deploy, traditional access control methods, such as security guards, RFID cards, PINs, key badges, and electronic locks, […]

Fully automated time and attendance systems can help alert managers when staffing levels are expected to go under a pre-set level – for example, when workers decide to go on strike. That’s exactly the case with NHS staff from nine unions that staged a 4-hour strike over pay yesterday. The workers, including midwives, paramedics and […]

A visitor monitoring system can help officers improve the overall visitor experience for family members. This is also the aim of the Invisible Wall scheme, which is aimed at trying to maintain links between inmates at Winchester prison and their families. Along with courses to improve parenting skills, the service also runs days where families […]

The level of employee interest into shared parental leave (SPL) will actually be much higher than initially estimated by the British government, a recent report published by law firm Linklaters was able to reveal. The survey polled 250 recent parents and parents-to-be working in FTSE 100 companies about SPL and a staggering two-thirds (63%) said […]

Deploying advanced workforce management systems is a vital step in any manager’s strategy to stay on top of their employees’ expenses and payroll, experts in the field have argued. The first step towards achieving a superior level of control over your employee’s expenses is to create a comprehensive expenses policy, which can save money and […]

Biometric identification systems have a widespread range of useful applications that go way beyond access restriction and control.

UK companies have dramatically slashed their hiring intentions for Q4, 2014, with the national outlook reaching +6%, down from +8% in the previous three months, data published in the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey was able to reveal.

A solid and reliable visitor monitoring system is a mission-critical component for any detention facility, as it allows staff to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities. The importance of such a system was proved once more when a man was arrested after acting suspiciously during a prison visit and then jailed for trying to pass drugs to an inmate.

Solid and reliable employee management systems can play a key role in tackling fraud across the NHS, analysis carried out by accountancy experts Baker Tilly was able to reveal.