Why manufacturers are moving to cashless
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, 8 May 2008
A restriction on personal belongings has long been in place within many manufacturing environments. Taken for granted and always accepted, this regulation has meant precious break times are eaten into as employees have to pay a visit to their locker for cash to purchase drinks and snacks.
With employers being pushed to consider staff welfare the pressure really is on. Two thirds of employees don’t feel valued by their employer and in turn feel no loyalty*, a worrying statistic for employers, however there are many ways to make employees feel valued.
Cashless payment solutions have been introduced in many environments as a means to empower employees. One card can be used for ID, access control and for all onsite purchases. Not only does this eliminate the need for numerous journeys to the locker every break time but employees are able to better utilise their break times.
GiroVend, the UK’s leading cashless payment solutions provider offers a variety of flexible solutions to allow manufacturing facilities to incorporate cashless payments. Utilising existing smart card technology, cashless payments can be added to an already installed access control solution with minimal administration. With the benefits cashless payments bring to a manufacturing environment and the options available for installation it’s easy to understand why the single card solution is becoming more popular.
*source: The Financial Times
About GiroVend
GiroVend is the UK market leader in providing cashless payment and payment processing solutions in a number of significant and demanding environments including: financial services, retail, higher education, further education, industrial, leisure, and professional services. Customers both large and small make up an estimated cardholder population exceeding 2 million. GiroVend systems are supported by a rapidly growing national field engineering division, providing services to 650 customers, on over 1750 sites. GiroVend is part of Group 4 Technology (G4Tec), one of the foremost innovators and suppliers within the security industry that has over 20 years of experience designing, developing and manufacturing powerful, state-of-the-art electronic security solutions, bringing together the expertise and knowledge required to meet the needs of some of the worlds most secure environments.