Access Control & Time Attendance Blog

When times are hard the need to control costs is paramount. The cost of your workforce is a major factor in any financial planning. If you can improve the control over your staff working hours your company can save perhaps 2-3% on the annual salary bill.

High school isn't just a place for learning the fundamentals of standard education anymore. At Wallace High School in Northern Ireland, students are also learning to take responsibility for their own attendance.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans to give 12,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds £1,200 a year as an incentive to stay in school.

As a provider of Time and Attendance systems, Synel helps many companies boost productivity and implement flexible working conditions for their employees. Historically this has been either hard for companies to achieve or companies might have been reluctant to try it.

Electronic access control systems are the best solutions to protect effectively buildings, assets, staff and visitors. Let us see why access control systems work so well.

Companies today are faced with various threats to their security, such as employee identity theft, vandalism, cheating, equipment theft or what is often called “buddy punching” (when an employee clocks another employee “in” or “out” who is not present at the time).    

Biometric access control is the use of unique physical characteristics to identify an individual to deny/grant access to users. Biometric security systems are particularly recommended where high security is necessary, requiring an irrefutable method of authentication for access control – e.g. in airports, military bases, police, hospitals, banks etc.

To effectively manage your organisational security, you need to restrict access to authorised personnel only. Here are 10 things to think about when selecting the best access control system to meet your requirements: