History
Kronos Incorporated, based in US, delivered the world’s first microprocessor-based time clock in 1979. CipherLab Co Ltd, based in Taiwan, released in 1989 its first time clock data terminal.
One of the first computerised workforce management systems was the Weeney Clocker produced by a company called Baur Automation in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was available from 1992 to about 2005.
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