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There is a surprising number of businesses that still rely on the old-style mechanical clock card clocking machine. Your company might even be one of them. Maybe it’s always been there? Maybe it’s because it has never broken down and you’ve been doing just fine with it, so why bother fixing what isn’t broken, right?

Does this sound familiar? It’s a few days from payday and the person responsible for payroll, typically ‘finance’ or HR vanish into a ‘no-go zone’ and refuse to speak to anyone whilst they slowly suffer the pain of trying to sort out and process the weekly and/or monthly payroll. They eventually emerge, bleary-eyed and unhinged, desperate for several cups of tea/coffee, half a pack of biscuits and a bit of a cry in a dark room to recover.

Often, people mistake the biometric handscanner as being exactly the same as a finger-scanner, except that it scans the whole hand rather than just one finger. This is not the case. It’s a bit like comparing apples and oranges; they’re both in the fruit basket, but they couldn’t be more different. We’ve taken a look at the Biometric handscanner to shine a light on its good points and reveal a few drawbacks you might need to co...

The proximity terminal is a popular clocking solution, utilised by plenty of companies to great effect. We seem to be moving further into “the age of Biometrics” with finger-scanners, hand-scanners and facial recognition software all becoming alternative methods of clocking in. However, the proximity terminal is still going strong, and is still the overwhelming choice for thousands of companies.

Fire Drills are a necessary evil. Making sure that in the event of a fire, everyone knows what to do and can exit the building quickly and safely should be a priority for every company. A Time & Attendance system should have a reliable fire register so that you have a foolproof method of recording everyone who is onsite and most importantly, that you can get your hands on that fire register no matter what the situation.