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Drive the value of your workforce with the Focus range of Biometric Time and Attendance Systems

Egress Systems provides cutting-edge biometric time and attendance solutions, featuring advanced face recognition technology, industry-leading fingerprint devices and reliable hand geometry readers. For organisations preferring conventional methods, we also offer proximity card-based systems. Effective workforce attendance management provides valuable insights into your business expenditure. Your employees represent one of your most significant investments, making it crucial to understand how resources are allocated to this essential asset. Our Focus range of Time and Attendance software is specifically engineered to reveal detailed analytics, helping you maintain that competitive advantage in today's demanding business environment.

04/11/2026

This Stress Awareness Week, it’s worth asking a simple question: do you know how your team is really coping?

According to HSE figures for 2024/25, an estimated 964,000 workers were affected by work-related stress, depression or anxiety, and 22.1 million working days were lost because of it. Stress, depression and anxiety now cause more than half of all work-related ill health in the UK.

Every employer has a legal duty to assess and manage work-related stress. The government’s free Working Minds campaign makes that easier with its 5 Rs:

1️⃣ Reach out – start conversations with your team
2️⃣ Recognise – spot the signs and causes of stress
3️⃣ Respond – act on the risks you find
4️⃣ Reflect – review what’s worked
5️⃣ Make it routine – check in regularly

Your attendance data can help you spot stress early. Long runs of overtime, short-notice absences, patterns building up in Bradford Factor scores, or shifts that keep getting swapped can all point to someone who’s struggling. Good time and attendance software won’t replace a conversation, but it does help managers see when one is needed.

👉 Free tools, templates and online learning from Working Minds: https://workright.campaign.gov.uk/working-minds/

Want to see how Egress Systems gives you a clear view of hours, overtime and absence across your workforce?

Talk to our team on 0115 931 4007 or visit https://www.egress-sys.co.uk/

27/10/2026

It’s 2am on Halloween. The fire alarm goes off.

You’ve got 140 people on the night shift. Two agency workers forgot to clock in. One team leader swapped shifts at 10pm. And someone shouts, “Is anyone a first aider?”

Can you say, right now, who’s still inside the building?

A) Yes, we’ve got a live roll call on a phone or tablet
B) Paper register by the door (fingers crossed it’s up to date)
C) We’d do a headcount at the assembly point
D) …let’s not think about it

Comment A, B, C or D. No judgement, it’s a lot more common than you’d think.

Egress Systems, UK-wide time and attendance specialists based in Nottingham.

Live Fire Roll Call, part of the Egress Systems Focus time-and-attendance software, puts your roll call on your phone.

As soon as the alarm sounds, fire marshals open the roll call in the Focus Self Service app and get a live list of everyone who should be on site, built from that shift’s clocking data rather than a list printed hours earlier.

Each person’s card shows their photo, where they last clocked and who marked them safe, so marshals can tick people off at the assembly point in seconds. If someone is missing, one tap calls their mobile from the app.

06/10/2026

Two employment law changes landed on 1 October. Both come down to your records.

📅 Tribunal claim time limits have doubled, from three months to six.

🗂️ Holiday records must now be kept for six years.

In practice, an employee now has twice as long to bring a claim, so a dispute about hours worked, absence or holiday entitlement can surface long after the event.

By then, managers have moved on, memories have faded and that spreadsheet has been overwritten.

So the question for HR and IT teams is:

Could your attendance and holiday records stand up six months on?

A quick check:

✔️ Is attendance, absence and holiday recorded in one place, not scattered across spreadsheets and inboxes?

✔️ Can you pull any employee's holiday history in minutes?

✔️ Are records retained for six years?

✔️ Is there an audit trail showing who changed what, and when?

If any of those made you hesitate, now is a good time to review your time-and-attendance process.

At Egress Systems, we supply time and attendance systems that keep accurate, searchable records without the admin.

Message us if you'd like to talk through what compliant record-keeping looks like for your business.

0115 931 4007
[email protected]

30/09/2026

Fewer HR queries. More engaged employees. 👇

How many times a week does your HR team answer questions like:

❓ "What shift am I on next week?"
❓ "How many hours have I worked this month?"
❓ "How much holiday do I have left?"

Routine queries like these add up, and they pull HR away from the work that matters.

With employee self-service, staff can securely:

✅ View their rotas
✅ Check timesheets and hours worked
✅ Submit holiday and absence requests

The result? HR teams spend less time on admin and more time on people. Employees also get clear visibility of their own information, which builds a more transparent, engaged workforce.

At Egress Systems, we help businesses make workforce management simpler for managers, HR teams and employees alike.

👉 Find out more: https://www.egress-sys.co.uk/

What's the one HR query your team would love to stop answering manually? Tell us below. 👇

25/09/2026

Holding a sponsor licence? Right to work checks are only part of your compliance.

Home Office enforcement is at record levels. Around 3,100 sponsor licences were revoked in 2025, the highest number since records began in 2012. This is no longer just a care sector issue. Manufacturing, construction, hospitality, retail and professional services are all in the spotlight.

The guidance keeps moving too. In April, sponsors were told to check the right to work of anyone they "directly engage", including contractors. In May, that was reversed. Your processes need to keep up with changes that often arrive with little warning.

Many licences aren't lost over a missing passport copy. They're lost over the day-to-day duties, such as:

⏱️ Tracking attendance of sponsored workers

📋 Reporting to UKVI when a sponsored worker stops attending

📅 Keeping on top of visa expiry dates and follow-up checks

🗂️ Holding records that are ready for an unannounced compliance visit

Spreadsheets and paper timesheets make this harder than it needs to be. A time and attendance system provides accurate, auditable absence records and early alerts, so you can spot and report issues before they become problems.

The stakes are high. A revoked licence can't be appealed; you'll wait at least 12 months to reapply, and civil penalties for illegal working can reach £60,000 per worker.

If you'd like to see how Egress Systems can help you maintain reliable attendance records across your entire workforce, get in touch for a free demo.

Tel - 0115 931 4007
Email - [email protected]

22/09/2026

Nine in ten people with migraine say they are not believed, as new report reveals condition’s mental health toll

Migraine affects around one in seven people in the UK and can cause debilitating symptoms, from severe head pain and dizziness to sensory sensitivity, nausea and vomiting.

Yet many people still face disbelief about its impact in healthcare settings, at work and among friends and family.

Nearly a third (31%) of people with migraine said they had not felt believed by a colleague or manager at work and almost one in four (24%) said they had not felt believed by their family or someone they live with. One in five (20%) said they did not feel believed by a healthcare professional.

Worryingly, The Migraine Trust’s helpline data suggests worsening mental health more broadly among people with migraine. Callers mentioning suicidal thoughts rose by 54% in the last six months and almost trebled year-on-year, up 270%. People reporting isolation and wellbeing struggles also increased, up 15% and 26% respectively.

Rob Music, Chief Executive, The Migraine Trust, said: “A common perception of migraine is that it is ‘just a headache’ and ‘it can’t be that bad’, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. This new report sets out the compounding effect that not being believed about migraine has on mental health and paints an incredibly concerning picture.

“Many living with the condition are facing disbelief and downplaying of their symptoms in all parts of their lives, from healthcare settings to workplaces, and even, sadly, among loved ones. The impact of this for those living with migraine can be devastating.

“We need to urgently tackle the stigma associated with migraine. This Migraine Awareness Week, we are calling for greater public understanding of the condition, especially among employers and healthcare professionals. This simple act can have a profound impact on the quality of care and support that people with migraine so desperately need.”

These latest figures add to existing evidence that paints a concerning picture of the mental health impact of migraine. Previous research conducted by The Migraine Trust has examined the different ways that the condition can affect mental health and wellbeing.

The Migraine Trust’s 2024 report, Migraine Hurts, found that almost nine in 10 (89%) people with migraine said the condition had affected their mental health, with over half (55%) describing the impact as significant.

Its latest survey found that more than three-quarters (77%) said not being believed about migraine had negatively affected their mental health.

Despite this, research published earlier this year found that only one in 10 (10%) had been offered NHS mental health support.

17/09/2026

Managing people across shifts, sites and departments doesn’t need to mean relying on spreadsheets, manual timesheets or on-site servers.

With Focus.net, Egress Systems’ cloud-based time and attendance platform, organisations can access real-time attendance data from any web browser—helping them track hours, manage absence, build rotas and prepare accurate payroll data from one flexible system.

What can Focus.net help with?

✅ Live visibility of who is in, late, absent or due to finish
✅ Mobile clocking with geofencing controls
✅ Employee self-service for holiday requests, rotas and timesheets
✅ Skills-based rostering to ensure every shift has the right people in place
✅ Configurable reports, scheduled email updates and payroll exports
✅ Real-time fire roll call information for improved site safety

For businesses operating across multiple locations, this means less administration, more accurate workforce data and better-informed decisions when staffing levels change.

Whether you are managing a warehouse, manufacturing facility, retail estate, logistics operation or multi-site workforce, a cloud-based approach gives managers the information they need—wherever they are.

https://www.egress-sys.co.uk/time-and-attendance-software/cloud-based-time-attendance-system/

09/09/2026

Managing time and attendance in higher education is rarely straightforward.

From catering and housekeeping to porters, grounds teams and administrative staff, every department can operate on different shifts, contracts and pay rules.

Add flexitime, annualised hours, time off in lieu and overtime into the mix, and manual processes can quickly become time-consuming.

Egress Systems helps higher education institutions bring clarity to complex workforce management with flexible time and attendance solutions built around how their teams actually work.

With configurable working rules, rota planning, editable timesheets, payroll reporting and HR software integration, institutions can:

✅ Track hours across departments and cost centres

✅ Manage variable contracts, overtime and flexitime

✅ Improve visibility for heads of department

✅ Reduce duplicate admin and minimise human error

✅ Export accurate time data for payroll

✅ Choose from fingerprint, face-recognition, proximity and NFC clocking options

For universities, colleges and independent higher education providers, the right system is not just about clocking in and out. It is about making workforce data more accurate, accessible and useful across the organisation.

Discover Egress Systems’ time and attendance solutions for higher education: https://www.egress-sys.co.uk/sectors/education/

03/09/2026

Payroll is only as accurate as the time data that feeds it. When hours, overtime, absence and shift changes are managed across spreadsheets or paper records, mistakes can quickly become costly and time-consuming.

Egress systems can integrate time and attendance data with existing HR and payroll processes, helping teams reduce manual handling and work from more reliable information.

https://www.egress-sys.co.uk/

25/08/2026

In food production, every process needs to be efficient, hygienic and fully traceable — including employee time and attendance.

Egress Systems provides flexible clocking and workforce-management solutions tailored to the needs of food manufacturers.

From touch-free face-recognition terminals to waterproof fingerprint terminals suitable for wash-down areas, businesses can choose a clocking method that fits their environment while reducing reliance on cards and fobs.

Our time and attendance software also helps food production teams to:

✅ Manage recurring rosters and bespoke shift rules

✅ Monitor live attendance across departments and production lines

✅ Capture cost-centre data to support labour-cost control

✅ Manage sickness, holidays and absence

✅ Improve onsite traceability by identifying who was present and when

By automating time and attendance processes, food manufacturers can reduce manual administration, minimise avoidable errors and give managers clearer visibility of their workforce.

Find out how Egress Systems can support your food production operation:

https://www.egress-sys.co.uk/sectors/food-production/

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