Yes, very keen
Do you remember the fun and games I had with my shift roster a while back?
I’m now extending that same app to be able to “clock” the workers in as they arrive for each shift change, and then provide a summary of how many actually showed up to work that shift. At each shift change (twice a day), about 150 workers are involved, and they all arrive at a muster area at about the same time. So it gets quite hectic. The way it currently works is the deployment foreman has my app with all the workers that are rostered for that shift presented as an inline list. As each one arrives, he taps their name, then taps a button to set their status, and the name is removed from the list. It works, but it’s a bit clunky.
So once a QR code scanner becomes available, my idea is:
- Each worker will have the app, with a QR code on their profile page, embedded with their worker ID.
- The foreman will have a version of the app with the QR code scanner enabled.
- As each worker arrives, he will open the app and show his profile page, and the foreman will scan the code
- Boom! Done.