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All-in-one HR platform · v2.0
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All-in-one HR platform · v2.0
14-day free trial · No credit cardhello@HrMagix.com
Restricting where attendance can be marked from a phone to a defined radius around a work location. A punch outside the boundary is either blocked or flagged for review, which makes mobile attendance usable for site, field and branch staff.
Setting up geo-fencing is a one-time exercise per location: HR or the admin team pins the coordinates of each office, branch, warehouse or client site and picks a radius. A small radius suits a single building; a large campus or a site with weak GPS needs more room, or genuine punches get flagged.
Day to day, the work is reviewing exceptions. A field sales executive who punches from a customer's office outside every fence will appear on the flagged list each morning, so roaming roles need either a wider policy or approval routing to their manager instead of a hard block.
The common mistake is rolling out one radius for everyone and then letting managers approve every flag without looking, which defeats the control. HRMagix publishes GPS geo-fencing on its mobile app with configurable radius per location and optional selfie validation.
The app records the employee's location at check-in and compares it to a defined boundary around the workplace. Check-ins outside are flagged or blocked.
Location is personal data, so employees should be told how it is collected and used. Check current data protection requirements in India.
It can, with multiple permitted locations or by recording location at each check-in rather than restricting it.
Inaccurate GPS indoors, boundaries drawn too tightly, and spoofing apps. Policies should allow a manual correction route.
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