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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.

Many businesses have employees who work away from the office; whether that’s engineers, sales reps or transporters. It can be difficult getting an accurate record of these employees’ clocking times and their day-to-day activities.

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.

The Biometric Fingerscanner is the most requested clocking terminal in the enquiries we receive. This isn’t surprising, given that Biometrics are becoming more popular (and readily available) with each passing year, as pointed out over on Biometricupdate.com.

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.

Every workforce can be divided into several different “groups” depending on their varying skillsets or responsibilities. For example, if you are a manufacturing company, you may have skilled machine operators or possibly forklift truck drivers.

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.