For Workday users, maintaining accurate location hierarchies is essential to ensure precise payroll processing, legal compliance, and meaningful workforce reporting. However, many organizations struggle to operationalize these hierarchies across their frontline workforce. The challenge is particularly acute in industries with dispersed locations, mobile employees, high turnover, or dynamic shift patterns—where traditional time clocks often fail to keep pace with real-world needs.

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Enter CloudApper hrPad, an AI-powered tablet-based time tracking solution that seamlessly integrates with Workday. By transforming any iOS, Windows or Android tablet into a smart, location-aware device, hrPad ensures that every punch, work transfer, and compliance attestation is accurately mapped to Workday’s location hierarchy in real time.

When organizations load their location hierarchies into Workday via EIB or other integrations, the next hurdle is ensuring that frontline data—such as time punches—respects and reflects those hierarchies. If an employee clocks in at the wrong site or if location changes are not captured during job transfers, downstream impacts on payroll, labor costing, compliance, and analytics can be significant. hrPad addresses this by embedding location intelligence directly into the employee experience. Employees use hrPad to clock in and out, transfer between cost centers, and submit attestations at the point of work—all while the system enforces accurate mapping to the Workday-defined locations and organizational structure.

To understand where hrPad fits into the overall Workday ecosystem, consider the following operational needs and how hrPad enhances them:

Location Hierarchies for Accurate Time Tracking and Compliance

Operational Need How hrPad Helps Workday Users
Accurate time punches per location Ensures punches are always tagged to the correct Workday location, using location-aware tablets and authentication.
Dynamic cost center transfers Allows employees to transfer to different cost centers or jobs mid-shift, with all data mapped to Workday.
Compliance attestations Captures attestations (e.g. meal breaks) at clock out, tied to location-specific compliance requirements.
Location-based reporting Guarantees that labor data in Workday reflects actual worksite activity, improving auditability.
Mobile/seasonal site coverage Provides flexibility to deploy hrPad on tablets at new or temporary locations without costly hardware investments.

FACE Amusement Group provides a strong example of how this works in practice. Operating a diverse portfolio of entertainment venues across multiple locations, FACE Amusement needed a way to streamline shift communications, accurately capture time punches, and automate work rule transfers, all while ensuring compliance and payroll accuracy. By implementing CloudApper hrPad in conjunction with Workday, FACE Amusement empowered its employees to clock in/out using facial recognition, receive AI-powered shift notifications, and submit attestations that are fully mapped to the appropriate Workday location structures. The result was a seamless flow of accurate, location-based workforce data into Workday, which improved both payroll precision and operational efficiency.

In conclusion, CloudApper hrPad does not replace Workday’s powerful data-loading tools or location hierarchy management capabilities, but it does operationalize them by ensuring that frontline data—punches, transfers, attestations—respect those hierarchies in everyday use. For Workday customers seeking to improve the accuracy, flexibility, and compliance of their location-based time tracking, hrPad offers a proven, scalable solution that connects strategic HR structures with real-world workforce activity.

How to Implement CloudApper hrPad with Workday

  1. Preparation: Assess your location hierarchy needs and prepare your Workday system for integration with hrPad.
  2. Install hrPad: Deploy the hrPad app on compatible iOS, Windows, or Android tablets within your organization.
  3. Configuration: Configure the hrPad app settings to match your organizational requirements, including location hierarchy, compliance rules, and authentication methods.
  4. Integrate with Workday: Use the EIB or other integration tools to load your location hierarchies into Workday and connect hrPad to ensure seamless operation.
  5. Testing: Test the integration in a controlled environment to ensure accurate data flow and location mapping.
  6. Training: Provide training to employees on how to use hrPad for punching in/out, job transfers, and submitting compliance attestations.
  7. Launch: Roll out hrPad across your organization and monitor its performance to ensure it meets your operational needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CloudApper hrPad?
CloudApper hrPad is an AI-powered time tracking solution that integrates with Workday, enabling organizations to accurately maintain location hierarchies by transforming any tablet into a smart, location-aware device.
How does hrPad improve payroll accuracy?
hrPad ensures that time punches are accurately recorded and mapped to the correct Workday location, leading to precise payroll processing.
Can hrPad be used in mobile or seasonal job locations?
Yes, hrPad provides flexibility by allowing deployment on tablets at new or temporary locations without the need for costly hardware investments.
What are compliance attestations and how does hrPad handle them?
Compliance attestations are acknowledgments of adherence to certain requirements, such as meal breaks. hrPad captures these attestations at clock out, ensuring compliance with location-specific requirements.
How does hrPad support dynamic job or cost center transfers?
hrPad allows employees to transfer between jobs or cost centers during a shift, with all data accurately mapped to Workday.

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