Biometric smart card technology makes buddy clocking nearly impossible

Hampshire County Council is one of many local authorities stating its worries over what factors would determine the level of funding as a result of this autumn’s Spending Review. The coalition has already announced that councils face an annual seven per cent reduction in their budgets. The Hampshire authority said the distribution of the government grant had not favoured councils in the South and it was worried how the new settlement will be handed out. Southampton City Council said the cuts would still have a big impact.

WinTA Access Enterprise is a combined time and attendance and access control system from Southampton-based Time and Attendance Southern, and suits larger bodies who wish to accurately and reliably collect employee clocking data in order to make them more efficient. Biometric smart card technology is available within the Enterprise product range, and enables you to control which scanners require fingerprint verification and who is allowed to enrol fingerprint information. This two-fold factor of identification also eliminates the ‘buddy clocking’ practice as it is near-impossible to mimic a colleague.