Memo from L. Gregory to J. Simmons sending an attached statement prepared by Systems Research of anticipated savings for the Wages Office from the L1 job.
Research comments: An interesting document setting out the cost savings to Lyons from having their payroll produced by LEO I as opposed to human clerks. LEO I had been producing the payroll for bakeries staff since 1954 and Lyons were now intending to use LEO to calculate wages for their entire staff team.
It states that Lyons currently have 21,000 employees and using LEO to do their entire payroll would save them the equivalent of employing 59 clerks. The note also states that LEO calculates the wages of each employee in 2.515 seconds, so the entire payroll would take 14 hours each week.
Also interesting from a social perspective is the different pay rates for male and female employees, even when doing the same job. This document was produced in 1955, some 15 years before the UK's first Equal Pay Act came into force and it was the norm for men and women to paid according to completely different pay scales.(LM)
Date : 27th January 1955 to 2nd February 1955
Creator : Gregory, L.
Physical Description : 1 item (5 pages), paper; typescript
Provenance : From David Caminer's papers
Archive References : CMLEO/DC/WF/LL1/1/12
, DTC/6/10
, DCMLEO20211123034-38
This exhibit has a reference ID of CH66594. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
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