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Biometric access control systems are being used to crack down on food welfare fraud in India’s food banks and distribution centers, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find. The aim of the scheme is to authenticate customers using their government-issued biometric ID cards to ensure that they are indeed […]

A housing association could add an impressive £2.2bn to the UK economy by building 6,100 homes over the next five years, a new report has been able to reveal. The Hyde Group’s ambitious house-building programme is committed to supporting the Government’s drive to build new homes and also includes the creation of 1,300 new jobs […]

The Big Energy Saving Week 2015, the campaign by Citizens Advice, the Energy Saving Trust and the Department of Energy and Climate Change that aims to highlight other ways for homeowners to save money on their heating bills with tips including the best ways to insulate a house, the most efficient way to use a […]

Around one in five UK workers did not use all their paid holiday allowance in 2014, according to the latest research from Canada Life Group Insurance. The report’s findings suggest employees are being prevented from taking the time off they are entitled to. Around one in seven blame staffing issues such as maternity leave or members […]

An impressive two thirds of small businesses across the UK have implemented specific measures to improve their productivity over the past year and, as such, expected their output over the next couple of years, a recent research report has been able to reveal. The paper by Albion Ventures suggests that improved training and increasing the […]

ONVIF, the open industry forum for the development of a global standard for the interface of IP-based physical security products, has recently announced the Release Candidate for Profile A, a new draft specification that establishes an interface for access control clients and expands the configuration options for access control systems that comply to the ONVIF […]

The unemployment rate has dropped to 5.4% in the three months leading to August 2015, the lowest level since 2008, while the employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work) was 73.6%, the highest since comparable records began in 1971, data from Office for National Statistics (ONS) has […]

A biometric system that was deployed using UK aid funding has helped bolster school attendance in Kenya, a news report in the local media has been able to reveal. The Adolescent Girls Initiative- Kenya (AGI-Kenya) is conducting a biometric registration trial for 3,000 adolescent girls in 60 schools in Wajir County, Kenya. Implemented by Save […]

A large number of employees are still not benefiting from flexible working hours despite asking for them repeatedly, recent research has been able to reveal. The report from workingmums.co.uk over a fifth of working mothers have been forced to vacate their jobs because flexible working was not available when asked for. 38% of new mums […]

Qatar’s massive infrastructure development related to the upcoming Fifa World Cup 2022 will play a major role in driving Qatar’s access control market to grow at a CAGR of 12.52 per cent during 2015-21, a recent report has been able to find. Around 300 billion dollars would be invested in the country across various sectors […]

More than a third of organizations are facing a significant increase in the level of staff presenteeism (workers coming to work while sick), figures from CIPD’s recent Absence Management Survey 2015 strongly suggest. The survey of 600 employers, representing more than 1.5 million staff and conducted in partnership with Simply Health, revealed that this is […]

Securing a construction site means that you’ll have to address a unique set of challenges, especially when dealing with a large site where there are multiple access points and numerous subcontractors. And one of the best ways to deal with such a set of issues is the deployment of a solid and reliable biometrics-based time […]