The Works Payroll and Time Recording—a Breakthrough at Last?

Payroll operations were often one of the first tasks to be entrusted to a newly installed computer but, contrary to all expectations, the change was not always for the better. Why? Usually it was due to the fact that the computer was fed with data obtained by manual copying from clock cards with adjustments made by time clerks or supervisors; painstaking and tedious chores which, despite computerisation, left room for human error in that most touchy of areas — the pay‐packet. The input was slow, inaccurate and open to corruption.