your foreman isn't the problem. friday is.
your foreman is not bad at paperwork. the paperwork is bad at construction.
here's what actually happens on a multi-site day:
crew works Site A until 11am. moves to Site B after lunch. foreman fills out timesheets on Friday from memory. splits the hours 60/40 because that feels right.
Site A gets over-credited. Site B looks fine on paper. the budget overrun is already happening and nobody knows yet.
this is not a people problem. this is a system problem.
manual timesheets were designed for one worker, one site, one day. construction has never worked that way. and yet here we are, asking foremen to be data entry clerks during the most demanding hours of their day.
the american payroll association says up to 80% of manually completed timesheets contain errors. on a multi-site day that number does not surprise anyone who has ever tried to reconstruct a week from memory on a friday afternoon.
the fix is not hiring better foremen. the fix is stopping the reconstruction entirely — GPS logs the site transitions, the app splits the hours, the supervisor approves before it hits payroll.
no guessing. no Friday archaeology. no office spending tuesday morning fixing what should have been right on monday.
