A supervisor on a project site outside Riyadh once told me his muster sheet had 340 names on it every morning, and by his own estimate, a dozen belonged to men who were not actually there.
He was not describing fraud in the dramatic sense. He was describing a Tuesday: someone hands their phone to a friend, the friend punches in from the site gate, and the GPS coordinates come back looking perfectly legitimate.
That is the gap this article is built around. GPS records where a phone was. Geofencing restricts that record to a defined boundary. Neither confirms who was actually holding the phone, and for contract and multi-site workforces across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, that distinction is the entire ballgame. [Read more…] about Best GPS and Geofencing Attendance Systems for UAE and Saudi Arabia (2026)