ABOUT THE RELEVANCE OF EMPLOYEE ID BADGES

Business organizations, no matter their size or field, play a very important role in our society. They provide us with products and services without which it would be really difficult for us to perform our daily activities and tasks. But business companies are nothing more than just buildings if there are not people in them. Employees make companies social actors in every community.

In such scenario, and especially after the terrible events of September 2001 when different planes crashed against the Twin Towers in New York and one of the wings of the Pentagon, business owners and managers soon realized that it was of utmost importance to ensure that their staff members were clearly identified and efficiently distinguished from visitors, guests and strangers.

Providing them with identification badges was an immediate and effective response. At the beginning, identification programs were totally outsourced and business owners and managers had to rely on third party outsourced designers and professional printing companies to get the badges they needed.

Fortunately soon enough technology advancements made it possible to develop affordable, powerful and compact ID card systems that enable them to produce their ID cards in house. It did not take long before they realized that these identification devices could perform more purposes than just keeping their different staff members properly identified. Let us review why these ID cards are so important in the corporate environment nowadays.

To begin with, if they are sophisticated enough as to be used as access control cards, they enable business managers to allow only authorized staff members into otherwise restricted areas.
In addition, HR staff can incorporate into  the magnetic stripe or bar or embedded chip sensitive employee information that enables them to keep track of their attendance, punctuality, whereabouts, punishments or awards received, productivity and so on.

Small business companies and retail stores appreciate the fact that ID cards help them have a warmer and closer relationship with their customers and guests as they can now identify employees by their names and that they are useful in enhancing brand awareness and increase the sales rate.

ID cards are also important because they help employees feel part of the company they work for. As they are recognized as workers from a certain company they feel proud of it and establish stronger bonds between them.

As it can be appreciated, companies have a lot of things to thank to identification devices.