Using People's Own Phones
The cheapest deployment option and the one that asks the most of workers. What it actually requires of them, and what to provide instead.
Analysis
The boundary
Four features turn a defensible design into something else, and each arrives as an upgrade rather than as a decision.
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Punch Time Is Not Arrival Time
A precise timestamp invites precise enforcement. What sits between arriving and punching, and why rigid policies produce the behaviour they punish.
Analysis
Where Clock-In Becomes Monitoring
The narrow version is defensible. Four features turn it into something else, and they arrive as upgrades.
Analysis
People Who Work From Anywhere
Geofenced clock-in applied to remote workers checks that someone is at home, which is a different thing entirely.
Analysis
The Thing You Are Spending
A clock-in system depends on people using it as intended. What the workarounds look like, and what they cost you.
Analysis
How to Decline a Request
Refusing badly loses the argument and the relationship. Naming the reason that lands, and answering the concern underneath.
Procedure