Jobsite attendance tracking

Jobsite attendance tracking without a sign-in sheet.

Jobsite attendance tracking answers who is on each site today and whether that matches the schedule. ZeroBadge builds it from the badge record: a live headcount by jobsite, each worker's arrival and departure against the work hours you set, and approved time off left out of the count. The sign-in sheet at the trailer is no longer the source.

Get started See one Tuesday across three sites

Headcount by jobsite, ask ZeroBadge AI
Late starts and missed days flagged
Approved time off excluded

ZeroBadgeWorkforceCrews by jobsite

Jobsite	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Hours
Riverside	6	10	9	9	9	375.0
Harbor Yard	10	7	7	7	7	300.8
Northgate	8	8	8	8	8	328.9

Counts are distinct workers with badge-recorded time at the site that day.

A Tuesday across three locations

Scheduled, present and the reason for every gap.

Work hours are set per worker, so the system knows who should have been where. This is the picture a superintendent gets at 7:15 AM and again at the end of the day.

Scheduled, present and the reason for every gap.
Location	Scheduled and on site	Why the gap
Riverside TI	9 scheduled, 7 on site at 7:15, 8 by 7:41	One journeyman on approved time off, so he is left out and nobody is marked missing. One apprentice powered on at 7:41, a late start of 41 minutes on a 7:00 crew.
Elm Street warehouse	6 scheduled, 6 on site at 7:00	None at the start. At 1:30 PM two leave against a 3:30 PM end, which lists as two early finishes for the supervisor.
The shop	3 scheduled, 2 on site	One worker with no time off recorded and no badge reading all day. That is a missed day and it goes on the exceptions list.

Riverside TI
Scheduled and on site
9 scheduled, 7 on site at 7:15, 8 by 7:41
Why the gap
One journeyman on approved time off, so he is left out and nobody is marked missing. One apprentice powered on at 7:41, a late start of 41 minutes on a 7:00 crew.
Elm Street warehouse
Scheduled and on site
6 scheduled, 6 on site at 7:00
Why the gap
None at the start. At 1:30 PM two leave against a 3:30 PM end, which lists as two early finishes for the supervisor.
The shop
Scheduled and on site
3 scheduled, 2 on site
Why the gap
One worker with no time off recorded and no badge reading all day. That is a missed day and it goes on the exceptions list.

Headcount here counts badges reporting from inside the drawn location. A badge left in a truck still counts as being there, so a surprising number is a prompt to look, not a verdict.

Headcount by site

Daily crew counts, and the move you did not have to ask about.

Each jobsite shows how many people were there each day, and how that compares with the same day last week. When three workers shift from the finishing job to the one that is behind, the counts show it the first morning.

The foreman who sent them does not have to phone it in, and the project manager is not working from Friday's recollection of Tuesday. For the hours behind the heads, see multi-jobsite time tracking.

ZeroBadgeWorkforceCrew allocation

Transfers · Tue

On site

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Riverside610999
Harbor Yard107777
Northgate88888

Site transfers detected

Ben C.Harbor Yard → Riverside · Tue
Mateo G.Harbor Yard → Riverside · Tue
Rosa D.Harbor Yard → Riverside · Tue
Lena O. · Tue Oct 6
4 locations in one shift, 1h 35m in transit, still one record.

Four ways to know who showed up

Attendance records are only as good as who has to fill them in.

How each method answers the daily attendance question
Compare	ZeroBadgeBadge record	Sign-in sheetTrailer clipboard or daily log	Phone appCheck-in on the worker's phone	Gate or turnstileBadge reader at the entrance
Who is on site right now	A live count by jobsite.	Who signed in this morning, and not who has left.	Whoever checked in and still has a charged phone.	Good at one controlled entrance.
Late and missing	Compared automatically against each worker's work hours.	A supervisor compares by eye.	Compared if the schedule is in the app.	Compared if the schedule is loaded.
A crew that moves between sites	Follows the worker, so counts update across sites.	Counted wherever they last signed.	Each check-in is manual.	Only at sites that have a gate.
Equipment on site	None. Badges report on their own.	A clipboard.	An app on each phone.	Reader, power and network at each entrance.

Compare ZeroBadge with

How each method answers the daily attendance question: ZeroBadge compared with Sheet
ZeroBadge	Sheet
Who is on site right now
A live count by jobsite.	Who signed in this morning, and not who has left.
Late and missing
Compared automatically against each worker's work hours.	A supervisor compares by eye.
A crew that moves between sites
Follows the worker, so counts update across sites.	Counted wherever they last signed.
Equipment on site
None. Badges report on their own.	A clipboard.

The tradeoff

A gate with a reader is a good answer for a single walled project with one way in. Most commercial jobs have an open perimeter, a trailer that moves and crews that leave for supplies, which is where a sheet falls behind.

Attendance against schedule

What gets flagged, and what deliberately does not.

The point is to show a supervisor what needs a conversation, not to build a case against anyone.

Late start
Power-on after the worker's scheduled start. A grace period applies, so a few minutes past the start is not treated as late.
Early finish
Power-off, or the last reading at a site, well before the scheduled end.
Missed day
A scheduled workday with no shift at all and no time off recorded.
Approved time off
Recorded by the worker in the optional web portal or by the office. A day covered by time off is excluded, so it is never counted as absent.
No hours set
If you have not set work hours for a worker, ZeroBadge can show presence but not lateness. Set the schedule and the comparison begins.
Time outside approved sites
Minutes while the badge was outside every location you drew are flagged as a separate item, apart from lateness.

What a GC or owner asks a sub for

Four requests, and where each answer comes from.

Four requests, and where each answer comes from.
The request	What you hand over	Where it comes from
How many of your people were on site last Thursday?	A headcount for that day at that jobsite.	Daily crew counts by jobsite.
Who exactly was on the job, and for how long?	Worker, day, jobsite and hours.	The weekly timesheet, exported as CSV, Excel or PDF.
Why was the crew short on Tuesday?	The late starts, missed days and time off behind the number.	The attendance exceptions for that day.
Can we have the manpower numbers weekly?	A recurring count and hours by site.	See manpower reports.

How many of your people were on site last Thursday?
What you hand over
A headcount for that day at that jobsite.
Where it comes from
Daily crew counts by jobsite.
Who exactly was on the job, and for how long?
What you hand over
Worker, day, jobsite and hours.
Where it comes from
The weekly timesheet, exported as CSV, Excel or PDF.
Why was the crew short on Tuesday?
What you hand over
The late starts, missed days and time off behind the number.
Where it comes from
The attendance exceptions for that day.
Can we have the manpower numbers weekly?
What you hand over
A recurring count and hours by site.
Where it comes from
See manpower reports.

ZeroBadge aids certified payroll reporting by supplying verified hours by worker, day and jobsite. It does not produce or file certified payroll on its own; final certified payroll reports require review by a qualified person.

What this is not

Attendance from a badge shows where the badge was, not what the person was doing.

A badge left in a truck cab counts as on site, and nothing here measures effort. Use the numbers to find days worth asking about. The tracking runs during paid shifts on company-owned badges, powered off between them.

ZeroBadge AI

Ask ZeroBadge AI who showed up

Skip the sign-in sheet and ask. ZeroBadge AI answers attendance questions from the badge records, leaves approved time off out of every count and links each number to the days behind it. It is read-only and admin-controlled.

You ask
How many people were on each site Monday, and who was missing?
Elm Street 14 of 15 scheduled, Harbor Road 8 of 8 and Pine Ridge 5 of 6. The two missing workers have no badge shift and no approved time off for Monday.
You ask
Who has missed two or more scheduled days this month?
Two workers, with 3 and 2 missed days and no time off recorded. Days covered by approved time off are not counted.
You ask
Who started late at Harbor Road this week?
Five workers started more than 5 minutes late at least once, 6 starts in all. The longest was 22 minutes on Wednesday.

Answers come only from your company's own records. Every number links to the records behind it. Read-only; admins control access.

How ZeroBadge AI works

Questions

Questions about jobsite attendance tracking.

How do you track attendance at a construction site?

Record where each worker is during the shift instead of asking them to sign in. ZeroBadge does that from the badge, so each jobsite shows a live headcount and each worker's arrival and departure are compared with the work hours you set.

Can I see who is on site right now?

Yes. The live view shows each badge's latest location against your drawn jobsites, with a count per site. A badge shows as reporting from the site it is in, not as a name tied to a room.

How do late starts and missed days get flagged?

Each worker can have scheduled work hours and workdays. A power-on after the start, an early finish or a scheduled day with no shift is flagged. A grace period applies to late starts.

Is approved time off counted as absence?

No. Time off recorded in the worker portal, or by the office, is excluded, so a day off is never reported as a missed day.

What does a GC or owner usually ask for?

Daily headcount by site, hours by worker and day, and an explanation for any short day. The first comes from daily crew counts, the second from the timesheet export. See manpower reports.

Is jobsite attendance tracking the same as time tracking?

They share a record but answer different questions. Time tracking asks how many hours were worked and where. Attendance asks who was there and whether it matched the plan. See time tracking for field crews.

Keep exploring

Next: manpower reports, crew moves and productivity.

Last updated October 29, 2026

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What we will walk through

01Live and daily headcount by jobsite
02Attendance against each worker's schedule
03The export a GC or owner asks for