Save Money on Labor and Security with a Magnetic Card Reader
Companies all over are trying to figure out ways to make the bottom line better. Unfortunately, that has come at the cost of many jobs. While it may not be a popular move, it is a necessity for the companies to be able to stay afloat and save the other jobs with the organization. For some companies, security can be a huge chunk of the labor costs. A magnetic card reader system can alleviate some of those costs and will pretty much pay for itself in a very short period of time.
When you look at the numbers, you can see that having several security officers posted throughout the building 24 hours a day can cost a company a lot of money. While you will of course still want the human presence to be there, it may not be necessary to have as many during all of the shifts. During the evening hours, you can probably cut back dramatically if you have this kind of security system in play. Again, you will still need someone there for monitoring, but having a staff to address every entrance may no longer be necessary.
What you can do is purchase a magnetic card reader system and issue magnetic cards with security and personal information stored on them for your entire staff. The readers can be set to allow or prevent access to different areas and now instead of having to have a guard posted, you can merely have the reader there to unlock the door or keep it locked if the employee does not belong in that area.
If the average salary of a security guard is about $20 an hour with your company and you have an overnight shift of 5 guards, you are paying well over $5,000 a week in overnight security alone. You can have an entire magnetic card reader system in place for about the same amount of money. If you are now able to decrease that amount of guards down to 2, the system will pay for itself in less than a month and now that money is going straight to the bottom line.
This type of technology can be used in just about every business that there is in some manner or another. Having a magnetic stripe card reader can benefit you business in a variety of ways and every one of them comes down to either saving you money or making sure money is not walking out the door. Either way, it is money that goes to the bottom line.
It is never a good thing to have to eliminate jobs and take someone’s livelihood away from them. However, if it is a choice of protecting the company as a whole and losing 10 or 20 jobs to do it, you have no choice. Labor is a huge cost and when you have labor that can be replaced at a very low cost and still gets the same results, as a business owner you have to make that move. A magnetic card reader security system could be just the answer that you are looking for.