Can employees clock from home?

When we created Webtimeclock over 20 years ago, one of our first priorities was to prevent employees from clocking outside the workplace.

Our idea back then was to limit by IP address, which by the way, has been borrowed from us over and over again. We call it IP security.

How does it work?

Every Internet Service Provider (ISP) assigns an IP address to each one of their customers. And for the most part, each one of those IP addresses are unique. For example, the IP address of a phone carrier is different from the IP address of your office internet provider.

The idea is to limit employees to clock in when their IP address matches your office IP address.

It works really well.

But it's not always perfect either, IP addresses are sometimes changed by your ISP, as your ISP makes changes to their servers.

If that happens, enter the new IP address assigned to you, otherwise employees will not be able to clock in. When you do, your time clock is back in business.

Despite that possibility, IP security is still the best method to limit employees when web clocking, even better than GPS tracking.

Sure GPS works, but it's only accurate when using mobile phones, as not all employers want employees to use their phones.

Give Webtimeclock a try, employees will not be able to clock from home.

Unless you want them to.