MPS Group needed one trusted attendance record across a large multi-division operation. WorkWeek replaced fragmented manual processes with verified clock-ins, live visibility, and cleaner payroll inputs across five divisions. MPS Group has been with WorkWeek for about 1 year and currently manages 450 employees across 5 operating divisions.
MPS Group shows what changes when a business gets more accurate time tracking, site attendance records, and payroll data. Instead of working from paper, WhatsApp updates, or delayed submissions, managers can see clearer information during the day and use it to make faster decisions.
The challenge of running attendance across five divisions
Before WorkWeek, MPS Group was managing attendance through a patchwork of manual processes across five divisions. Paper timesheets, phone-based check-ins, and supervisor-reported records varied from one division to the next, which made it difficult to build one reliable picture of who worked, where, and for how long.
That operational gap showed up most clearly at month end. Payroll depended on records that were often incomplete, inconsistent across divisions, or impossible to verify after the fact, which created a direct labour-control problem for a 450-person workforce spread across commercial, domestic, specialist, and civil projects.
What changed with WorkWeek
WorkWeek introduced geolocation and selfie verification to every clock-in across the MPS Group operation. Whether an employee is on a hospital installation in Gauteng, a retail fit-out in the Western Cape, or a domestic maintenance job, the business can now verify both when the clock-in happened and where the employee was standing.
For the management team, the biggest shift was standardisation. One attendance record now covers the entire group, without separate division processes, month-end consolidation exercises, or reliance on supervisor reports after the fact.
The outcome
The fragmented manual process has been replaced by a single, verifiable attendance record that management can check in real time and rely on when payroll is due. Payroll is prepared from data the finance team trusts, disputes can be resolved against verified records, and off-site clock-in attempts are flagged before they are absorbed into the payroll run.
For a business built from multiple plumbing and trade-service divisions, that shared system matters as much as the data itself. MPS Group now manages workforce attendance at scale from one platform, with consistent rules across the whole operation.
What this looks like in practice
- A single attendance record replaces division-by-division manual processes across the whole group.
- Verified, location-confirmed clock-ins prove employees were on the right site when they booked in.
- Payroll for a 450-person workforce is prepared from trusted data instead of incomplete supervisor records.
- Time disputes are resolved against a verified record rather than argued from memory.
- Off-site clock-in attempts are flagged in real time before they reach payroll.
Key takeaways
That is what makes this case study useful for other teams in South Africa. The gains show up in more accurate attendance records, faster payroll preparation, fewer manual corrections, and better visibility of what is happening on site or in the field. For businesses like MPS Group, those improvements have a direct effect on labour control and daily reporting.
- One verified attendance record now covers all five divisions
- Payroll is prepared from trusted data instead of supervisor-submitted timesheets
- Off-site clock-in attempts are flagged before they reach payroll
