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How attendance verification, payroll, and fraud prevention actually work.
22 August 2026 · 6 min read
5 Ways Employees Fake Attendance — And How to Stop Each One
The five most common ways attendance gets faked — buddy punching, GPS spoofing, photo spoofing, device sharing, and proxy check-ins — and the specific defense that stops each one.
15 August 2026 · 6 min read
How Payroll Should Be Calculated From Attendance: Present, Late, Half-Day, Absent Explained
The rules that decide whether a day counts as present, late, half-day, or absent for payroll — and why tying payroll directly to attendance data removes most manual payroll errors.
8 August 2026 · 5 min read
Face Recognition Attendance: How It Works and Why It's Hard to Fool
How on-device face recognition for attendance actually works — face embeddings vs. storing photos, liveness/blink detection, and why a static photo shouldn't be able to pass verification.
1 August 2026 · 5 min read
How GPS Geofencing Attendance Works (And How to Stop Fake Location Punches)
A plain-English explanation of how GPS geofencing verifies where an employee actually is when they punch in — radius vs. polygon boundaries, GPS accuracy, and how apps catch fake-location apps.