Attendance
Check-in and check-out
Platform
The active work session: location visibility with a start and an end
Most objections to field workforce software are really objections to being followed around. Timenox 360 answers that with a boundary rather than a promise: the work session. An employee checks in and the session opens. Visits, tasks and location visibility exist inside it. The employee checks out, the session closes, and there is nothing left to watch. Everything a manager can see is scoped to that window.
An active work session is the period between an employee checking in and checking out. Field location visibility, visits and tasks belong to that window. Outside it there is no session, and Timenox 360 shows no location for that employee.
Visits & tasks
Assign and complete field work
Sites & locations
Coordinate multiple locations
Field team
People · Work · Business
One connected workflowProducts & orders
Record field orders
Collections
Track collection activity
Customer records
Keep visit context together
Reports & insights
Review operational activity
Activity-aware location updatesLocation context tied to attendance and active work sessions
The problem
Why “live tracking” gets rejected inside organizations
Teams stall on field software for two reasons that pull against each other. Operations cannot run a field day on status calls and chat photos, so they ask for visibility. Employees, works councils and privacy reviewers hear “GPS tracking” and reasonably ask what stops it running at 9pm on a Sunday. Products that answer only the first concern get bought and then quietly abandoned when the second one surfaces.
What it includes
What the session actually bounds
The session is the unit of record. Check-in time, check-out time and working hours are recorded against it. Visits worked and tasks completed attach to it. Movement and route history describe the travel that happened during it. Live visibility on the operational map exists while it is open — and a checked-out employee is simply not on the map. Nothing about the model depends on trusting a policy document: closing the session removes the visibility.
How it works
How a session runs, start to finish
- 1Before check-in there is no session. The app is installed and provisioned, and no location is shown to anyone.
- 2The employee checks in from the mobile app. Where the organization assigns a site, check-in is expected inside that site’s geofence radius.
- 3The session is now active. Working hours accumulate, and the employee appears on the operational map with the work attached — the visit in progress, the tasks due.
- 4Visits and tasks are worked through the day. Each one is recorded against the open session rather than reported afterwards.
- 5The employee checks out. Working hours are final, the session closes, and live visibility for that person ends with it.
- 6After check-out the record remains — hours, visits, tasks, distance travelled — as the operational history of that day.
Capabilities
What the session model gives you
- 01
Session-scoped visibility
Location visibility is a property of an open session, not a standing permission. Check-out is the off switch, and it belongs to the employee.
- 02
Two provisioning modes
Operations mode gives the full field workspace. Restricted mode reduces the app to check-in and check-out inside a defined site. The organization chooses per employee.
- 03
Working hours as a record
Check-in, check-out and working hours are recorded as operational attendance for the field day — not as a payroll calculation, which stays in Timenox.
- 04
Work attached to the session
Visits, tasks, and orders or collections where used are recorded against the open session, so the day reads as work rather than as a trail of coordinates.
- 05
Boundary alerts in Restricted mode
Where an employee is assigned to a defined site, leaving that site before checking out can notify an administrator. The rule is configured centrally, not on the phone.
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Visible to the person carrying the phone
The employee sees their own session state, hours, visits and tasks in the app. The model is a product feature, not a hidden background process.
Who this matters to
Operations leaders who need a defensible answer when field visibility is questioned, HR and privacy reviewers assessing whether the product is proportionate, and the field employees who have to accept it. It also matters to organizations in markets where continuous monitoring is culturally or legally contentious: the honest answer is that the session, not the calendar day, is the boundary.
How this connects to the rest of the platform
Field attendance is what opens and closes the session. Live field visibility is what the session makes visible while it is open. Sites and geofences define where check-in is expected. Visits and tasks are the work recorded inside the session. The security page explains the same boundary from a trust and privacy angle rather than a product one.
FAQ
Questions about work sessions and privacy
Does Timenox 360 track employees outside working hours?
No. Location visibility exists between check-in and check-out. Once an employee checks out the session closes and no location is shown for them. There is no session outside the working day, and therefore nothing to display.
Can an employee stop being visible?
Yes — by checking out. That ends the work session and the visibility that goes with it. Working hours stop accumulating at the same moment.
What is the difference between Operations and Restricted mode?
Operations mode is the full field workspace: attendance, visits, tasks, calendar, and orders and collections where used. Restricted mode deliberately reduces the app to check-in and check-out inside a site the organization defines, with no visits or tasks exposed. The organization assigns the mode per employee.
Does the organization decide the rules, or the employee?
The organization. Sites, geofence radius, provisioning mode and who can see operational activity are configured by administrators in the web app. Employees do not self-register or configure the boundary.
Is this employee surveillance software?
No, and the architecture is the argument rather than the marketing. Visibility is scoped to an open work session, the employee controls when that session ends, and the app shows the employee the same session state their manager sees.
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