With Permatek continuing to grow year on year we are delighted to welcome our new Business Administrator, Rebecca Clark, to the Permatek Team. Rebecca, or Becca as she prefers, will be involved in several areas of the Permatek Business and our end users will more than likely find themselves speaking with her at some point. […]
Protecting Staff from Infection with a Door Entry System
Preventing unauthorised access to your building is essential for the health and safety of your workforce. Failing to secure your business premises properly could result in theft, hazardous accidents, or result in the continued spread of the virus. With our intelligent door entry system you can reduce the risk of this: – Temporarily Remove Access Rights […]
Staff Scheduling Made Easy with Permatek
Covid-19 has led to increased absence rates across the workplace and employers need to adapt to the challenges posed. Home Working, Flexible Working and Staggered Shifts are required to keep staff safe. If you’re using an excel spreadsheet to plan employee schedules or a free scheduling app you will be finding that it still leaves […]
Social Distancing in the Workplace after Lockdown
Following the Prime Ministers statement, we are seeing the first tentative steps of the UK plans to ease restrictions. People are now being ‘actively encouraged’ to go back to work in situations where they are unable to continue working from home. Many business sectors, however, such as hospitality and leisure will not be seeing any […]
Introducing Flexitime for Staff Working From Home
Flexitime Home Working The working day can look a lot different for employees working from home, especially during the current lockdown period. No longer is there a daily commute to worry about, other than maybe a traffic jam in the hallway, or finding a parking space on the dining table for your laptop in-between the […]
Staff Holiday entitlement – Coronavirus Outbreak
With the nation now effectively locked down and many businesses being forced to close their doors they are finding themselves having to find answers to seemingly never ending questions in an incredibly fast moving, and unprecedented situation. I’m sure many of us could do with a holiday right about now, and there may have been […]
T&A and Calculating Payroll During Coronavirus Outbreak
As the Coronavirus outbreak deepens and the impact on businesses of all sizes starts to increase we would like to offer our thoughts, advice and assistance to customers worried about being able to calculate payroll from their Time and Attendance System in the event of staff absence. With Self-isolation increasing and with today’s news […]
COVID 19 Coronavirus and Fingerprint devices
With the current COVID19 Coronavirus Pandemic we can understand there may be worries and concerns regarding having your staff continue to use the Fingerprint readers for your Time and Attendance and/or Access Control System. We would like to provide our current advice regarding their usage. In the first instance and as per the current NHS […]
UK Bank Holidays 2020 – One to Watch Out For This Year!
So here we are. A Brand New Year and a Brand New Decade! Into the Twenties we go. Hoping everyone has had a great Christmas period and ready to go for the New Year. From us all at Permatek we wish you all a Happy and Prosperous 2020. Not that we are already looking forward […]
6 Benefits of Employee Self Service Systems in Time and Attendance
Employee Self Service is a relatively new requirement in Time and Attendance. Many years ago, timesheets and clock-card systems were the most common method of capturing employee working times. These methods although manual, cumbersome and prone to errors or going missing, were great for one thing. Employees could see their working times recorded in front […]





