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Specialist software for workforces that don't fit a template.
Focus is the time and attendance platform built by HR Industries — and it began with one engineer. Chris Horner, an electrical engineer, understood time and attendance as a physical system: terminals, wiring, connections to other machines, not just lines of code. That grounding shapes everything we build. Because we understand the hardware as well as the software, we handle the integrations, edge cases and awkward requirements that generalist vendors wave away. If you have a tricky requirement, chances are we've solved it before.
HR Industries has worked in time and attendance since 2006 — long enough to watch the industry move from punch cards to biometric terminals to the cloud, and to move with it rather than chase it. Twenty years in one discipline buys what can't be shortcut: knowing where the complexity really lives, a product refined by real-world use across hundreds of businesses, and the staying power to be here in another twenty.
Focus has never been acquired, merged or handed off. It's still owned and developed by the people who created it, so decisions about the product are made by engineers who know it end to end — not a rotating cast of managers passing through. The platform you rely on is backed by people with a long-term stake in getting it right.
From small businesses to large enterprises and across every industry from manufacturing to healthcare.
Employee records, scheduling, time off, clocking in and out, every day.
Flexible, agile, and working for employers and employees alike.
Generating accurate, fair and transparent numbers in time for Payroll, every single time.
Focus is deliberately not a simplified tool for simple cases. It's built for the genuine complexity of workforce management: intricate shift patterns, multi-site operations, cost-centre analysis, bonus and overtime rules, rostering, and deep payroll integration. If your workforce is complicated, Focus is built for exactly that.
It goes far beyond clocking in and out, giving you real control over your workforce:
Focus works with a wide range of clocking terminals, from proximity card readers to biometric fingerprint and facial-recognition devices, and runs as a cloud solution via Focus.net or on-premise through Focus Enterprise. It fits around your business, not the other way around.
We build and continuously develop Focus. We don't sell or support it directly — and that's by design. Focus reaches customers through a network of dedicated partners, including Egress Systems, Chronologic and Data Time Systems, each of whom becomes your single point of contact for demonstration, implementation, training and ongoing support.
Each partner brings its own strengths and specialisms, so when you get in touch we match you with the one best suited to your business and the way you work. You get the best of both: a partner who knows time and attendance inside out and stays with you for the long haul, backed by the engineering depth of the team that built the platform.
Customers stay. Focus is used by more than 400 businesses across the UK, covering around 45,000 employees. 82% of customers who joined in the last five years are still with us, and more than a quarter have been here for over a decade. In a market full of bold promises, we think retention is the most honest measure of whether a product and a team actually deliver.
That kind of loyalty doesn't come from clever marketing. It comes from software that works, partners who stand behind it, and treating customers as long-term relationships rather than transactions.
"Focus has been a great system to support the journey of modernising our payroll process. I could not recommend the team enough — they are highly responsive and knowledgeable, and I feel we've built up a great working relationship over the years."
— Lauren Carr, Iceland Manufacturing Ltd
Focus is trusted across manufacturing, food production, logistics, hospitality, social care, higher education, retail, recruitment, engineering and farming. Whether your workforce is shift-based, salaried, remote or a mix of all three, Focus handles it.
