With more people working from home, your business is likely experiencing decreased employee traffic. To help protect your property when it’s left empty, consider upgrading to an access control system to monitor and control who is allowed to enter and exit your building. These systems provide additional security and also make it easy to control employee entry from a remote location.

Protect against increased break-in trends

While you may think break-ins involve broken windows or kicked-in doors, criminals often use more discreet methods to enter into buildings. It’s easy for criminals to sneak into your building by pretending they’re a delivery driver, visiting speaker, or family member of an employee. All it takes is one person innocently holding a door open for an unknown person to enter.

Access control systems allow you to monitor each entry to your building as well as entries to specific areas of the building. Therefore, if you notice something has been stolen, you can see who had access to that area at a certain time. From here, you can determine who might have seen an unfamiliar person.

Access control systems also allow you to grant and deny entry to each individual. That means that if you see someone that looks suspicious, you don’t have to let them into your building. Traditional keys don’t provide this level of control and leave your property prone to break-ins.

Provide employees individual access in case they need to enter the office to grab things

If an employee needs to run to the office to grab something, access control systems make it easy to grant them entry from a remote location. There’s no meeting up to exchange keys or heading to the office to let them in. Rather, you can grant them access from wherever you are, which saves both of you time.

Access control systems can also provide further protection by preventing people from losing or passing off keys. If someone loses a keycard, you can remove this card from the system. That’s right, there is no need to change locks if an employee loses a key.

These systems also allow you to frequently change an entry code, which creates additional security.

Secure Lock & Alarm: Greater Boston’s Leading Access Control Provider

With the increase in remote work, access control systems provide the security you need when you can’t be present at a location. Not only do they protect from break-ins, but they also make it easy to remotely grant access to employees. Contact Secure Lock & Alarm today to request a free quote on access control installation!