Running attendance across plants, projects, and field sites
GPS check-in, shift rules, and exceptions that don't need a manager chasing them down.
Sana Kapoor
Office attendance is easy. Attendance across plants, project sites, and field crews is where most systems fall apart — because the real world has more exceptions than a badge reader expects.
The hard parts
- People work where there's no fixed entrance to badge into.
- Shifts vary by site, season, and crew.
- A missed punch is the norm, not the exception — and chasing each one burns a manager's day.
What actually works
Location-aware check-in. GPS check-in lets people clock in at the site they're actually at, not a turnstile they'll never pass.
Rules per site. Shift timings, grace periods, and overtime thresholds should be configurable per location — because a plant and a project site don't run the same way.
Exceptions that route themselves. A missed or disputed punch should become a small, owned task that resolves itself through approval — not a line item a manager has to hunt down at month-end.
The result
When attendance fits the way field operations actually run, the data stops being something you clean up later. It becomes something you can trust the same day — and build payroll on without a second pass.