With 22 employees and 3 properties, the administrative burden could quickly grow large and time-consuming, but at Prima Svin, CEO Thomas Søby Carstensen only spends 3 hours a month approving his employees’ working hours. All registration of working hours is done digitally in Intempus' time registration system out in the barn.

In Ølstrup near Ringkøbing, you'll find the Danish pig producer Prima Svin A/S. The company was founded back in 2017 by Torben Poulsen and Thomas Søby Carstensen, who today each own 50 % of the company. 

Despite its young age, the company has already gone from producing around 1,600 sows to 4,600 sows, 180,000 piglets and 8,000 slaughter pigs, while the company now has a feed factory for its own consumption. In December 2020, the business expanded with three properties, and with this came the need for a new time tracking system that could handle the new company size with both multiple locations and a tripling of employees.   

Bigger business, new needs

With the new expansion, Prima Svin needed a solution that could keep track of employees' comings and goings and easily access employee reports without having to be physically present at all three locations. 

And this is where Intempus’ Terminal with come/go time registration could fulfil that need. 

With Intempus’ cloud-based time registration, the pig farmer could easily access all reports wherever he was and avoid having to go out and retrieve the data locally on the computer at the different properties. At the same time, it was also possible to see in real time which employees had checked in and which had checked out, making it easy to maintain an overview of employee activity. 

A system customised for both employer and employee

After a short implementation process with Intempus, where the company set up a solution that suited their workflows, Thomas Søby Carstensen quietly introduced it to his employees so that the transition from the old system to the new one was as easy as possible. 

With the help of Terra Connect, a provider of hardware for agricultural companies, Prima Svin A/S set up physical terminals at their three locations so that employees could easily check in on site when they started work and check out when there was a break or the workday was over. 

This way, Thomas Søby Carstensen ensured that employees' working hours were always registered correctly:

“You get paid when you're in the barn and you don't get paid when you're not in the barn.”.

And with all movements recorded directly in the system, there are no more discrepancies about working hours. 

3 hours of administration per month

As in many small businesses, it's the CEO, Thomas, who does the administrative work. Fortunately, digital time registration means that the administrative work is not too heavy and time-consuming. In fact, it only takes Thomas Søby Carstensen 3 hours a month to get to the bottom of employee reporting.

“With Intempus, I spend about 3 hours every month approving and correcting the registrations, and then each employee gets an overview of their own reports.” says Thomas Søby Carstensen.