Meticulous Planning Yields ‘Invisible’ Access Control System Switch for Aflac
Meticulous Planning Yields ‘Invisible’ System Switch
Aflac, a Fortune 500 company, with annual revenues of more than $25.4 billion, had used a self-described “workhorse”-style access control system for many years in the company’s locations in Columbus, Ga., Omaha, Neb., and Albany, New York, as well as in its newest locations on Wall Street and in Columbia, S.C. With company-wide growth and the Columbia location alone experiencing near 100-percent employee growth rate the last few years, the system’s time was up.
“We knew it was a huge endeavor to install a new system, but we wanted to ensure that we had one card for all locations so if anyone was traveling from location to location they wouldn’t have to carry two or three badges. They would just carry one badge and have access that way,” shared Scott Shaw, CPP, CBCP, senior manager, Security, Transportation, and Emergency Preparedness, Aflac Worldwide Headquarters, Columbus, Ga.