After a rough few years, organizations are getting their feet back on the ground, and employees are returning to the workplace (and workforce) with momentum. If the pandemic has taught the world anything, besides taking care of health, it is that working remotely has untold benefits. Amongst these are the decreased costs of infrastructure, mental advantages (working from home is relaxing), and other financial pros that cannot be denied. Additionally, skilled professionals can be employed from anywhere on the planet as they do not have to travel to a physical workplace.
Nonetheless, the ever-appealing “work-from-home” paradigm has some limitations regarding security issues. Monitoring the attendance of employees is also a new issue to deal with. Biometrics may be the solution to tracking the workforce of a hybrid nature, when some days are physical working days and others are remote working days.
How does Biometrics help?
Biometrics involves the digital reading and identifying of personnel through the specific anatomy of individuals. Consequently, people can be identified through their facial features, irises of the eye, or fingerprints. These are unique discriminating anatomical features of any individual and cannot be duplicated. Through biometrics, onboarding remotely, security concerns, and monitoring attendance can be effectively managed for any organization in which working remotely is an option. It is worthwhile to delve into these aspects to know more.
Biometrics for Security Concerns in the Hybrid Workforce
The majority of organizations adopt digitalization in most aspects of work. This means that data gets exposed to hacking. While it is easy for programmers to create algorithms to keep company data safe, it is equally easy for hackers to create algorithms to breach sensitive information. With a view to address this, the IMF issued a report about cybersecurity. Biometrics can safeguard companies from forms of cybercrime, eliminating the need for the vulnerability of password use. With biometrics, only people authorized to access information can do so.
Tracking of Attendance
How do you track the attendance of staff working from residences in a hybrid workforce? With biometrics and software integrating attendance monitoring, it’s possible to know who’s working when or not working at all. Biometrics also help record the duration that the work is done in. Productivity goes up and the processing of the payroll becomes proficient. This aims at transparency in the relationship between human resource teams and employees.
Biometrics to Onboard Workers Remotely
Biometrics is a fast and secure way to onboard employees working remotely from a different city, or from anywhere across the planet. Companies are expanding their hybrid workforce to include staff from all over the world. Hiring becomes easy with biometrics used to authenticate identities with photographs and other data.
Biometrics – Encouraging a Hybrid Workforce
To ensure the survival of the hybrid workforce, technology is the only answer. Nonetheless, security breaches are a primary concern for most organizations adopting this policy, and biometrics provides practical solutions.
The article was authored by Bahaa Abdul Hadi and has been published by the editorial board of the Identity Herald. For more information please visit www.identityherald.com
