Mobile workforce software from 1st Touch has enabled Wulvern Housing to reduce rent arrears by helping tenants deal with the challenges of welfare reform. Sasha Deepwell, deputy chief executive, Wulvern Housing, said, “We felt that unless the issues surrounding welfare reform were managed professionally, some of our tenants would find themselves under greater financial pressure…
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Mobile Working
Spectrum Housing Group saves £50,000 a year with Advanced’s MobileHR
Spectrum Housing Group is saving over £50,000 each year and improving employee engagement using MobileHR, a mobile HR system from Advanced Business Solutions. MobileHR allows Spectrum’s staff to submit expenses, holiday requests and declare business hospitality gifts via their smartphone and tablet devices, allowing the HR team to focus on more value-adding activities. Line managers…
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Sovereign’s workers never alone with Connexion2
More than 550 employees at Sovereign Housing Association are now using Connexion2’s Identicom Series 8 devices and SoloProtect service for lone working. Discreetly packaged in the form of an identity badge, the Identicom devices allow workers to activate a ‘red alert’ (with 24/7 audio link to an alarm receiving centre) if they are at risk…
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Empowering your customers
By introducing customer self-service technology, housing providers can transform their cost structures and also meet their social, financial and digital inclusion strategies. Such systems can also significantly boost customer engagement. Robert Dent, CEO of 1st Touch, outlines how introducing effective self-service systems can also help re-focus essential resources to combat the challenges posed by welfare…
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Guardian24 launches key fob alarm for lone workers
Guardian24 has launched MicroGuard, a key-fob sized device that combines the latest GPS, GPRS and G-sensor technologies to provide lone workers with an easy-to-use, highly-effective means to call for help at the touch of a button. Certified to the British Standard for lone-worker device services (BS 8484), the MicroGuard connects to Guardian24’s dedicated UK alarm…
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Guardian24 registers its one millionth lone-worker activity
Guardian24 has reported that it has registered its one millionth lone worker activity for 2014. The one millionth activity was logged on 4th November 2014 by Linda Murray, a Befriending Volunteer with The Alzheimer’s Society in the Wirral. To celebrate this achievement, Guardian24 donated £200 to The Alzheimer’s Society. Linda from The Alzheimer’s Society said,…
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