Buddy punching
A colleague clocks in for someone who hasn't arrived yet, or hasn't arrived at all.
Buddy punching — one worker clocking in for an absent colleague — quietly inflates payroll costs across shift-based operations. Biometric attendance ties every clock-in to a real, present individual, giving plant managers accurate labor data without the guesswork.
Every one of these costs shows up quietly, shift after shift, until someone finally adds it up.
A colleague clocks in for someone who hasn't arrived yet, or hasn't arrived at all.
Payroll reflects hours that were never actually worked, shift after shift.
In a fire drill or real evacuation, a badge-based system can't confirm who's actually on the floor.
Physical time cards or PIN codes are easy to hand off between shifts.
Plant managers spend hours cross-checking attendance records that were unreliable from the start.
Mxface adds a face check at the time clock, confirming the worker clocking in is physically there — not a card, not a PIN, not a favor from a colleague.
Capture a worker's face at the time clock and verify it against their enrolled identity.
Confirm a live person is clocking in, not a photo or a printed badge.
Compare the captured face with the enrolled reference face on the worker's record.
Where an enrolled database is used, identify a worker from a captured face without a card or PIN.
Nothing changes for the worker walking up — the difference is what the system can now prove.
A worker's face is captured once and linked to their attendance record.
The time clock or shift-floor kiosk captures the worker's face.
The system confirms a live person is present.
The face is checked against the enrolled worker record.
The match result is logged against the correct worker.
Payroll and headcount reflect who was actually present.
None of it needs a new badge system — it works with the time clock already on the wall.
Verify a worker's identity at the time clock or shift-floor kiosk.
Confirm a live person is clocking in, not a photo or badge.
Compare the captured face with the worker's enrolled reference face.
Identify a worker from a captured face without a card or PIN.
Most of the value here is invisible until someone stops seeing it — a smaller payroll discrepancy, a faster headcount, one less reconciliation to run.
Mxface connects to time and attendance, payroll and workforce management systems, adding a face check at the clock without replacing what's underneath.
Talk to Mxface about adding biometric attendance to your shift-floor operations.
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