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Practical guides for the people running field service businesses - payroll, compliance, GPS, and ops.
Most states have specific rules about how long timecards must be kept, how rounding works, and what happens when you're off by more than a few minutes. A state-by-state breakdown.
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Short answer: yes in most states, with disclosure. Long answer: California, Illinois, and a handful of others have specific rules that change how you need to handle consent and data retention.
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Buddy punching, inflated hours, and rounded timecards are easy to miss when the record is written from memory. The useful question is what your own crew's time is worth, not an industry average nobody can trace.
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Manual timecards cost field service companies money in the obvious ways - overpayment and errors. But the hidden cost is manager time: 2–4 hours a week chasing, correcting, and arguing about timecards.
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Continuous GPS tracks every movement, drains batteries, and generates privacy pushback from employees. Geofencing records only what matters - arrivals and departures. Here's why it matters for adoption.
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