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Our fire roll call app enables you to be safe and to stay distant, responsibly. To use this app, you must already have Tensor.NET and the Self Service Visitor Module registered and configured. See the bottom of this article for the specific version numbers required. The app provides real-time lists of who is off-site or […]

Hand-washing has been encouraged by the government before any other precaution against coronavirus was brought in, and is still recommended as best practise even amongst the recent more extreme measures. It is particularly vital for the many industries and workers who cannot work from home, such as NHS frontline workers, supermarkets, petrol stations and warehouses. […]

The recent government advice is for everyone to work from home if possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employers will be struggling to figure out how to make this happen for their workforce. Some jobs and industries are unable to work away from their premises, and different precautions and decisions will need to be made there. […]

It is very easy for people to demonise time and attendance systems. They assume that the sole purpose and function of this monitoring is to nit-pick employee timekeeping. But a time and attendance system is merely a tool. What matters is what the purchasing company prioritises and how they choose to use it. Monitoring vs […]

The fire roll call feature of our integrated attendance and access management system is now available as an app. This enables fire marshals or other designated people to view exactly who is off or on site during a fire alarm drill or evacuation, and to update the list in real-time. This replaces checking a paper […]

What is the Self-Service Visitor Management App (SSVM)? If there is no reception area in your workspace, or if there is not a designated receptionist to man it, we can offer you the SSVM. This enables visitors to check themselves in for appointments using a touchscreen. This can send an email directly to the person […]

A contractor made five false time-sheet claims, scamming the US government out of $100,000 false wages and payments before she was caught. Melissa Heyer was charged with five counts of submitting false timesheets. These claimed that she had been working in a highly classified work environment when she had in fact been working elsewhere. The […]

A historical report on hospital workforce management software and the role of time and attendance systems, with an editorial correction to unverified market estimates.

The Office for National Statistics has published statistics on the sickness absence rates of workers in 2018 in the UK labour market, including number of days lost and reasons for absence. The average number of working days per worker lost to sickness absences was 4.4. The four most common reasons for sickness absence in 2018 […]

We believe in offering our customers the best quality products and services that we can, so we are constantly looking for enhancements to be made to our software. Our Self-Service Visitor Management app (version 1.33.9) is now updated with improvement and new features. This is also known as the Unmanned Reception App. It allows visitors […]

On the 3rd and 4th of December, 2019 our parent company, Tensor plc, will exhibit its high-end security, facial recognition and access control solutions at the International Security Expo 2019. This expo, located at the London Olympia, is the flagship event for the security industry, bringing government, industry, academia and the entire end-user regulation & […]

The four-day week has been considered for some time, but has had a recent upsurge thanks to the Labour party adopting it as policy in time for the upcoming election on December 12th2019. You can see the two peaks in Google Trends – one from the announcement in September at the party conference, and the […]