Some restaurants and other hospitality companies have adopted fingerprint scanner systems to act as virtual time clocks for employees. The electronic system eliminates “buddy-punching,” when one employee punches in for another, and other kinds of fraud, the report says.
Fingerprint-identification technology by DigitalPersona, including a print reader and scanner not unlike this model, has been incorporated into the Digital Dining point-of-sale system
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Fingerprint ID technology requires a user to submit a finger for initial print scanning and then to press that same finger on the paper-clip-box-sized reader whenever he or she is accessing a protected application, such as a POS system’s virtual time clock.
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