NFC passcards in a workplace

Em3bbs · 25 Jun 2016 at 17:25

asim18 said:
brb while I "loose" my work laptop. I've always wanted to "loose" my stapler too.

People lose laptops fairly regularly, I can think of at least three people I've worked with you have left them on a train or another one in the pub on some work drinks. None of them charged for a replacement. I've nearly left mine on the train a couple of times.

snarloas1982 · 25 Jun 2016 at 17:28

Pawnless Endgame said:
You should be paying a £10 fine for using the word 'loosing' alone

So I should. I fixed it for the grammar police.

Kutter · 25 Jun 2016 at 17:29

$5 for a replacement one at my job, unless its either stopped working or broken then they just replace it.

Freefaller · 25 Jun 2016 at 17:32

Pawnless Endgame said:
You should be paying a £10 fine for using the word 'loosing' alone

K.C. Leblanc · 25 Jun 2016 at 18:12

We had them at a couple of places I've worked, we weren't allowed to charged and we had big problems with people losing their cards. It became very apparent that some colleagues weren't actually making any effort to find missing cards and just asking for replacements. Others felt for some reason they needed more then one card and would report their's lost, to get an extra card, only to discover their first card had been disabled.

Artery · 25 Jun 2016 at 18:19

My workplace just replace them for free.

Energize · 26 Jun 2016 at 02:20

snarloas1982 said:
Does anyone use fingerprint scanners for door access and if so is it more expensive to implement?

They are the ultimate device for spreading germs around the workplace unfortunately. The datacentre that I work at uses a retinal scanner though.

AHarvey · 26 Jun 2016 at 12:28

snarloas1982 said:
Hi Guys,

In my workplace we use NFC pass cards for clocking and also getting to secure areas. As some people have lost the cards my company has decided to charge £10 per replacement. Is this legal? Can this be reclaimed? Surely if nobody signed this in a contract they shouldn't have to pay for a company provided service?

scan the nfc card with with your phone, write that to another NFC tag (few pence online) and you'll always have a backup.

Liquidfox · 26 Jun 2016 at 13:33

Energize said:
They are the ultimate device for spreading germs around the workplace unfortunately. The datacentre that I work at uses a retinal scanner though.

They're also a nightmare when you've got contractors on site.

Kaladon · 27 Jun 2016 at 00:09

snarloas1982 said:
Hi Guys,

In my workplace we use NFC pass cards for clocking and also getting to secure areas. As some people have lost the cards my company has decided to charge £10 per replacement. Is this legal? Can this be reclaimed? Surely if nobody signed this in a contract they shouldn't have to pay for a company provided service?

You have lost a piece of company property through negligence or incompetence. So yeah they can do that. My lto have something similar in places for mobile phones but we only ever executed it once to a guy that lost 4 in 6 months :mad:

DJMK4 · 27 Jun 2016 at 00:50

snarloas1982 said:
Does anyone use fingerprint scanners for door access and if so is it more expensive to implement?

We use both biometric hand scanners and pin and a seperate card system.

Id imagine the biometric system would be more expensive than your standard card but not sure on costings. Get some quotes from a security installations company or buy them and learn how to install them