Quarry Chooses Focus Time and Attendance

Morris & Perry Ltd is part of the S. Morris Ltd group of companies and is a family-owned independent manufacturer of construction materials. The company is located in Somerset and has been supplying high quality materials for over eighty years.

The Morris & Perry quarry in Gurney Slade was acquired in the sixties and was using a manual tally roll clock which had been in operation for many years.

When the manual clock started to go wrong, it was decided to take a big step forward and source an electronic time and attendance system. It was decided to have a system that would allow the employees to have some control over their calculated hours as they had had before with the manual system.

The Focus Time and Attendance system specified by Access-to-Time met this requirement and extra functionality was added to the system specifically for Morris & Perry to provide a solution to meet their needs.

Although not over-complicated, the calculation of employees' time, which had always been done manually, required some thinking as some employees' time was calculated in a non-standard manner. The flexible scripting available within the Focus system enabled these non-standard calculations to be carried out with ease.

Morris & Perry chose to use the HandScan terminal so that their employees did not need to carry any other form of token, fob or badge to enable them to clock in and out. In the environment of the quarry there were concerns that the HandScan terminal might struggle. It hasn't at all. Brian Perry, the Managing Director, said:

"I didn't believe it would work in this environment. It is a testament to the strength of the design that it is working so well."

The ease with which the system can be used has meant that time has been saved all round and the calculation of payroll and the managing of holidays and other absences is simple. Tracey Simpson, the Accounts Manager, said:

"I returned from holiday recently and it was lovely not to have all the reams of paper to go through as I would have had to before. I just clicked and there was all the information I needed."

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