Who is on which site, without picking up the phone

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For owners, directors and site managers who start the morning asking where their people are. The live board of who is clocked in now also shows which project each person is on — as a row of cards with a headcount per project, and a list grouped the same way.

It is the screen you already use, on the same menu item. Nothing to set up, nothing new to learn — the moment your crews clock in on a project, the numbers are there.

Overview: the live board before and after, a card click narrowing the list and map to one project, and the map with pins coloured per project.
The question the board could not answer · one click to focus · and the same view on the map

The same screen, with the missing half filled in

The board before and after: previously a single list of 31 names with no indication of location, now a row of cards with a headcount per project and the list grouped the same way, including a dashed No project card.
① 31 names, no answer · ② a card per project · ③ the list grouped the same way

The board of people currently clocked in has always been accurate about who. It simply had nothing to say about where — so the daily question of who is on which site was still answered by calling a foreman.

Now every project with at least one person clocked in gets its own card: the headcount first and large, the name beside it, and the share of everyone currently on the clock. Underneath, the list of people is grouped the same way, so the number on the card and the names below it always agree.

People who clocked in without a project are collected under No project. That card is always shown, deliberately — if it were hidden, the cards would stop adding up to the total and the screen would quietly stop being trustworthy.

One click to focus, two shapes of the same list

A selected project card framed in blue while the other cards keep their numbers, next to the two shapes of the list: grouped by project, and one list sorted by name with the project shown in each row.
① the selected card is framed · ② other numbers stay visible · ③ and the list shape is yours to choose

Click a card and the list and the map narrow to that project. Click the same card again and the filter is gone. The other cards keep their numbers throughout — you look closely at one project without losing sight of the rest. There is also a project filter in the filter bar, offering only the projects that actually have someone on them right now, each with its count.

Next to the Table and Map tabs there is a small switch between By project and By name. Grouping answers how many people are where; a single list sorted by name answers where is this one person. In the by-name view the project moves into each row, so nothing is lost by switching. Your choice is remembered for the next time you open the screen.

One column stays as it was on purpose: Not clocked in is neither grouped nor filtered by project, and the screen says so. Somebody who is not clocked in is not clocked in anywhere, so they have no project — grouping them would mean inventing information.

What it changes on an ordinary morning

The map with pins coloured per project and a legend, a list of practical benefits, and two notes: a company with a single project sees the screen unchanged, and two people may see different numbers depending on what they are allowed to see.
Pins take the project colour · the answer in seconds · and the screen stays honest about what each person can see

The morning question is answered on screen. Nine people expected on one site and five clocked in is something you can see at 07:00, while the day can still be rearranged — not at the end of the week.

The map says whether they are actually there. On the map tab the pins take the colour of the project, with a legend beside them, so a pin sitting far away from the rest of its colour stands out without anyone hunting for it.

It works from a phone. This is a check people make on the way to a site, not at a desk, so on a narrow screen the cards stack one under another and the people who are on the clock come first.

And when there is nothing to compare, nothing appears. If everyone is on the same project — or nobody picked one — the cards, the grouping, the switch and the project filter all stay hidden, and the screen looks exactly as it does today. No controls that do nothing.

In the app these are called projects; many companies simply name them after their sites. A person appears under a project only if a project was attached when they clocked in — either because they picked one, or because it came from the site they were standing on (see Hours from the field now land on the right site by themselves). Numbers always match what you are allowed to see: a manager restricted to their own team sees smaller counts than the owner, and both are correct — the information button next to the cards explains this to anyone who compares screens. The screen shows the situation at this moment and refreshes on the button, as before.