Envoy offers many different ways to capture employee presence, including Physical Access Control (badge events), Network Access Control (network connection events, SSO (through Okta and Entra ID), and Geolocation. The purpose of this is to accurately capture who is on-site to record occupancy, adherence to any Return to Office (RTO) policies, and, in the event of an emergency, notify and account for all those on-site. Learn more about automatic workplace check-in.

With the Presence control center settings, admins have a clearer, more customizable way to manage how employee presence is recorded, ensuring data is accurate, policy-aligned, and tailored to each workplace’s needs.

Admins can enable automatic sign-in and sign-out so employees are checked in when presence signals are detected and signed out when those signals stop, helping keep workplace presence accurate throughout the day.

The Presence Control Center controls which presence signals are accepted. Individual integrations must be configured separately.

Automatic sign-out triggers a workplace sign-out when presence signals are no longer received after a set period. You can set the interval to align with your workplace traffic and the importance of real-time accuracy.

Shorter intervals provide greater real-time accuracy but may sign employees out if they step away briefly or lose connectivity. Longer intervals are more forgiving for lunch breaks, offsite meetings, or temporary network drops, but they may delay sign-outs for employees who have left for the day.

Select an interval that matches your workplace's typical flow and the level of precision you want for presence tracking. For example, a busy office with frequent short departures may prefer a longer interval, while environments that rely on near real-time occupancy data may benefit from a shorter one.

Available intervals: 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, and 8 hours.

The selected interval begins after the last presence signal is detected. For example, if the last signal is received at 5:00 PM and the auto sign-out interval is set to 2 hours, the employee will be signed out at 7:00 PM. The sign-out time on their entry will reflect the time the interval expires, not the time of the last signal.

You can see which signals an employee uses to sign in, recorded in multiple places.

See main article: Employee log

An employee's entry in the Employee log details the check-in method used, under the Checked in field. This will always show the first enabled signal Envoy received from this employee. In many cases, multiple signals are sent per employee per day. You can view more signals listed in the Access log and in Analytics (shown below).

If an employee crosses the geofence barrier, but Admins have that signal toggled off, the geofence crossing will not be counted as a valid sign-in and will not appear in the Employee log.

See main article: Access log

All signals Envoy receives from employees at your location are listed here. The Access log does not filter out duplicates or ignored signals and can be considered a "live stream" of employee activity. This means that if you turn off geofence signals for attendance, they will still appear in the Access log but will not be used to check anyone in or count towards attendance goals.

See main article: Attendance Overview

The Attendance Overview contains multiple charts that detail which signals are received from employees. This dashboard makes it easy to see which methods are the most effective at capturing employee presence data.