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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 […]

The global market for security and access control systems’ integration has topped $59.5 billion in 2013, a recent report by the IHS was able to reveal, and revenue is expected to continue growing in excess of 9% through 2018, according to the research firm. The security system integration market consists of the design, consultancy, installation, […]

SME managers and owners working overtime add £22bn to the UK economy, a recent report from digital lender Everline and the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) was able to reveal. The survey polled more than 1,000 decision makers in small businesses and found that, on average, almost 80% of SME managers admitted to […]

Biometric time and attendance systems designed to provide irrefutable proof of attendance are set to be installed across all the colleges in the Indian state of Uttarakhand as a means to ensure teacher’s attendance, a recent news report in the local media was able to reveal. The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday ordered the state […]

Improving the quality of post-secondary vocational training is a key factor in ensuring long-term skill availability and job creation opportunities in today’s highly-demanding jobs market, a recent report by the OECD has argued. The “Skills Beyond School: Synthesis Report” recently released by the organization points out that the most basic vocational courses cannot teach the […]

The number of people currently in employment has reached a record-breaking 30.79 million, recent statistical data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was able to reveal. The figures revealed that 694,000 more people are in jobs compared to this time last year. Furthermore, employment increased by 112,000 over the last 3 months alone, […]