WorkMonitor for field teams
Make “on site” a fact, not a text message on Monday
Geofenced job sites record presence, manual entry covers the rest, and approved hours feed payroll. The dedicated mobile app is planned, not shipped, and that belongs in the plan too.
Free for two seats, no card.
Field teams
What changes for work that happens on location
Pick a line and the page it happens on opens on the right.
- AKMonitoring & AnalyticsA clear picture of the working week.Search or ask…
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
Northlight StudioTeamEveryone tracked, and the hours behind each of themSearch name or email…MEMBERS42ONLINE NOW27live presenceOFFLINE15MEMBERSTATUSDOING NOWACTIVITY- AKAria K.OnlineActive nowWorkingFigma92
- JMJon M.OnlineActive 2m agoWorkingTerminal78
- SDSara D.OnlineActive 4m agoWorkingSlack61
- LMLena M.OnlineActive 7m agoIn meetingTeams55
- RPRavi P.OnlineActive 11m agoIdleNotion34
- TVTomas V.OfflineActive 12m agoWas working—
Showing 6 of 42 · online first, then activityOpen anyone for their day and analyticsPresence is the only claim about now. An offline row shows the last thing we saw, in the past tense — never a live badge, never a filled bar.
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- AKAria K.OnlineActive nowWorkingFigma92
- JMJon M.OnlineActive 2m agoWorkingTerminal78
- SDSara D.OnlineActive 4m agoWorkingSlack61
- LMLena M.OnlineActive 7m agoIn meetingTeams55
- RPRavi P.OnlineActive 11m agoIdleNotion34
- TVTomas V.OfflineActive 12m agoWas working—
Rollout
Covering work that happens away from a desk
- 1
Define the job sites
Geofenced sites with clock in and out, in beta, feeding the same attendance record as desk-based staff.
- 2
Handle the off-machine hours honestly
Manual entry exists for work no agent can observe, and it is marked as manual on the record so the two kinds of hour are never conflated.
- 3
Approve on a chain that holds
Append-only timesheets with correction chains and separation of duties, so a disputed site visit has a trail.
- 4
Export straight to pay
Approved hours seed the payroll run through one rate engine, pre-flighted in integer cents before anything leaves.
Hours reported after the fact vs. hours recorded on site
workmonitor.vsField time today
How hours arrive
With WorkMonitor
Clock in and out against a geofenced job site, in beta, on the same record as everyone else.
Field time today
A text message or a paper sheet, transcribed by somebody on Monday.
Work no tool can see
With WorkMonitor
Entered manually and marked as manual, so it is never mistaken for captured activity.
Field time today
Estimated, and quietly disputed.
Corrections
With WorkMonitor
Corrections append, with the author and the reason, and the original still readable.
Field time today
The number is changed and the original is gone.
Approval
With WorkMonitor
Multi-stage with separation of duties enforced rather than documented.
Field time today
One person signs off their own team’s hours.
Getting to payroll
With WorkMonitor
Approved hours seed the run directly, with an integer-cent pre-flight.
Field time today
Re-keyed into a second system and reconciled.
What the vendor claims
With WorkMonitor
Stated plainly: geofenced clock-in is beta and a dedicated mobile app is planned. The status dots on this page say so.
Field time today
Full deskless coverage, discovered to be a roadmap item after signing.
- Projects
- Timesheets
- Time reports
- Invoices
- Payouts
- Billing
- AKAria K.24–30 Aug38.538.5—Submitted
- RPRavi P.24–30 Aug47.541.0+6.5SubmittedTimesheet Detective · Hours spike47.5 h is 1.2× the trailing norm of 39.0 h — 8.5 h above baseline. It flags, it never decides.ApproveReject
- JMJon M.24–30 Aug40.039.8+0.2Submitted
- SDSara D.24–30 Aug36.036.0—Submitted
- TVTomas V.17–23 Aug32.532.5—Submitted
- LMLena M.24–30 Aug39.539.5—Approved
What a field operation gets to work with
- Timesheets (append-only, correction chains, approvals)
- Clock in/out + geofenced job sitesBeta
Ask AI
Ask AI about work in the field
Answers built from job-site records, attendance and the approval chain.
Pick a question above and WorkMonitor AI will answer from your team's real numbers.
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- AKAria K.Figma92Active
- JMJon M.Terminal78Active
- SDSara D.Slack61Active
- RPRavi P.Notion34Idle 11m
- LMLena M.Teams55In a call
- TVTomas V.Off shift0Off
The status meeting, already written
Status is normally assembled by asking. Here it is already: hours, activity, attendance and risk on one board, for one person or the whole company. Set the thresholds once and it tells you who needs you.
Jobs to be done
The jobs a field operation runs here
- Track time automaticallyNo timer to start, no Friday reconstruction. Idle is split out rather than estimated, and approved hours reach payroll and invoicing without a re-key.
- Run payroll from approved hoursApproved timesheets seed the run, one rate engine prices pay and billing, an integer-cent pre-flight has to balance, and the export is gated to the owner.
- Manage remote & hybrid teamsOne live board across every zone, attendance in each person’s local day, capacity bands that name who is drowning, and a rollout that never touches a machine.
- Bill defendable client hoursBudgets that burn down while you can still move somebody, rate-card billing off captured hours, and an invoice the client verifies without asking you for anything.
Straight answers
The questions we would ask in your position
Every answer here is the one you would get on a call. Open as many as you like; they stay open, so two can be held side by side.
Not yet. It is planned, not shipped, and that is the honest answer whatever it costs on this page. Today the coverage is geofenced job sites plus manual time entry running through the same approval chain, which works for field teams that have some desk-based or tablet-based touchpoint. If your crews are fully deskless, wait for the mobile app rather than buying on the promise.
It records whether activity happened inside a site boundary you define. It is a presence signal rather than a precision location trail, and it is deliberately not continuous tracking of where somebody is.
They carry less evidence, and the record shows which is which rather than blending them. Both run through multi-stage approval with separation of duties, so a manual entry is signed off by somebody other than whoever wrote it.
Capture policies can be scoped to working hours, and the per-app deny-list applies on the device before anything is transmitted. On a field team where the phone is personal, that boundary is worth setting explicitly at rollout.
Nearby
Teams with the same problem, from another angle
Take these with you
The software is the easy part of a rollout
Here is what we would send a manager doing one for the first time: how to read a productivity number, what to say to a remote team before anything is installed, and a policy you can adopt as written.
Point it at one team for a week.
Create the account, put the agent on a handful of desks, and leave it alone. On Friday you read the week instead of reconstructing it: hours against their projects, focus and idle per person, and the timesheets already filled in.
Free for two seats. No card, and no sales call to sit through.