Multi-site attendance for construction teams
How Cambodian construction firms capture attendance across scattered sites, separate direct labour from subcontractors, and hand clean data to payroll.
Why site attendance is harder than office attendance
A construction workforce moves. Crews start at one site and finish at another, headcount changes weekly, and there is rarely a fixed door to install a scanner on. Paper muster sheets get wet, get copied late, and cannot be checked against anything once the week has closed.
Capture at the site, not at head office
- Register each active site as its own work location
- Let the site supervisor record the crew from a phone
- Stamp location and time on the record so it can be reviewed later
- Reject punches coming from a faked GPS location
Separate direct labour from subcontracted crews
Direct employees flow into payroll with tax and seniority obligations. Subcontracted crews are usually settled against a contract or a measured quantity instead. Recording both in the same undifferentiated list is what makes month-end painful — tag the crew type at the point of capture and the two streams stay separable all the way through.
Hand payroll something it can trust
- Lock the period once supervisors have confirmed their sites
- Review overtime and absence exceptions before, not after, the run
- Keep the approval trail attached to each site and supervisor
- Report cost by site so project margins stay visible
Setting up a site so its hours reach payroll clean
A site is not a smaller office. Configure it as its own place with its own rules, and the month-end reconciliation that normally eats a day mostly disappears.
- 1Administrator
Register each active site as its own work location
A work location carries its own coordinates and its own allowed radius. A city-centre site might allow 50 metres; a spread-out compound might need 300. Setting one radius for the whole company is what generates false rejections at the biggest site.
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Turn on only the checks that site needs
Geofence, network restriction, and faked-location blocking are three independent switches, all off until you turn them on. A site with no Wi-Fi should have geofence on and network off — switching on a check the site cannot satisfy just teaches crews to work around the system.
- 3Site supervisor
Capture at the site, on the day
The crew checks in from their own phones, or through a QR station the supervisor holds. Either way the record is written where the work is, with location and time on it — not copied from a wet muster sheet three days later when nobody can verify it.
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Each punch is measured against that person's shift
Late minutes come from the assigned shift and its grace period, and the shift's rules are copied onto the record as it is written. An early start on one site and a late start on another are both measured correctly, from the same day.
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Overtime is requested and approved, not assumed
Hours past the shift do not become paid overtime on their own. Overtime runs through its own approval, which is what stops a site's costs being decided by whoever stayed late rather than by whoever authorised it.
- 6HR / Payroll
Direct labour flows to payroll; subcontractors do not
Only employees have salary structures, tax, and seniority obligations, so only they enter a payroll run. Keeping subcontracted crews out of the employee list at the point of capture is what keeps the two settlement paths separable all the way through.
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Cost lands back on the site and the project
Because attendance was captured per work location and the employee belongs to a project, labour cost reports by site without anybody allocating it by hand at month end — which is when project margins usually stop being visible.