Manufacturing Industry

The impact of BACS

The next effect of computers also hit the wages employees in the office. The National Wesminster Bank persuaded the company that it should encourage it's employees to open bank accounts. Wages were then no longer paid in cash. Another 12 employees in the wages section retired early were redeployed or made redundant.

A secondary effect of the use of the bacs system was that payments from the customers of the factory were paid in this way. Employees in the accounts section had to change working practices and learn new skills based on computers. Some felt they were too old for this and moved on but there was no significant change in the numbers of staff employed; although the numbers were reduced when the factory began to loose orders during the decline in British manufacturing.

© LEV