About this site
Fifty notes on time, identity and evidence, written for the people who have to decide what a record means: HR and employee relations, operations and shift managers, payroll, and whoever administers the time system and gets asked to produce a log.
What it covers
What a punch, a badge read, an app check-in or an activity monitor actually records. Why credentials get shared and which controls change that. What idle-time and productivity measures measure. What has to be established before describing time as stolen. How to corroborate a record, and why two systems reading one badge are one source. What a proportionate response looks like. And the operational conditions that produce the behaviour.
What it leaves out
What the law requires in any particular place — what monitoring is permitted, what notice must be given, what evidence is admissible, what may be recovered from pay. Those differ by jurisdiction, by sector and by agreement, they change, and they are a question for somebody qualified where you are.
About the figures
Every number on this site is an illustration of what one employer recorded for itself, and is labelled as such. None of them is a benchmark, a survey result or a statement of what any rule requires.