Updated: July 16, 2025
If you manage a remote team of workers, then you know how hard it is to oversee your employees. Right now, you’re probably calling or emailing each employee to create their weekly work schedules and then, at the end of the week, spending countless hours reviewing your team’s productivity, project timelines, and associated deliverables and hoping all the various sources of information received is accurate.
What’s efficient about this process? Pretty much nothing.
Additionally, in your current environment, how do you know if an employee or contractor is showing up to all meetings with other teams? How can you really verify when work is getting done, or if they’re working all of the hours they’re reporting on a weekly basis, or worse, if they’re even working at all? Chances are, you can’t. When you pay your employees for every hour worked, this time becomes critical. And, unfortunately, without accurate time and attendance tracking, you’re probably overpaying. Your business could be losing money by paying employees for time the didn’t work.
For example, if you’ve scheduled an employee to work from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a specific project and they actually arrive at 10:15 a.m. and leave at 4:45 p.m., that’s 30 minutes of time that you paid for when they weren’t actually working. That’s time stealing. If this takes place each day per week, that adds up to 2.5 hours a week. Yikes. Now imagine that number spread out across multiple employees working on various projects and in multiple locations across the country. You can see just how quickly the number adds up.
The issue is, unfortunately, not uncommon. In fact, the above example illustrates even less time stealing than the average employee. A June 2025 survey by Business.com revealed that 24% of workers manipulate their hours, costing employers an average of 4.5 hours per week, which totals nearly six full work weeks per year. That’s a number that businesses can’t afford to ignore.
How can you prevent time theft?
With all of the technology available today, there’s no need to fly blind anymore.
When you use a mobile app for time and attendance, you can better track when and where employees are working. Having exact clock in and clock out times means you’re paying only for the exact times when an employee is actually working. This completely eliminates time stealing or inaccurately reported time that happens with a manual timesheet process.
We have learned so much since deploying our own mobile app here at AllWork. Our clients report a cost-savings of between 5-10% on the low end to as much as 20-25% or more on the high end for their overall employee budget (with just this feature of our total workforce solution alone). By eliminating time stealing, they saved on employee costs and were able to reallocate that budget into important goals for the business.
The mobile app uses GPS verification, which lets our clients know that talent is in the correct location where they are supposed to be and when they are actually working. For example, if you’re a hiring manager based in Ohio, and you have talent all over the country working remotely, you will have complete visibility into your remote workforce. This is remote work made simple! What a refreshing concept, right?
Are you ready to implement a mobile app with GPS check-in for your team? Get in touch to schedule a demo of our platform.