Startup Idea: Shift Handover Timecard App for Caregiving Community
In the caregiving community, employees often complete their assigned shifts in a patient's home, as dictated by their supervisor. A single person is usually responsible for one shift, and they are only free to leave when the employee for the next shift arrives.
Since such a system involves little to no supervisor oversight, some employees find it acceptable to arrive late to their shifts. These tardy workers may take advantage of such a system by arriving anywhere between 10-30 minutes late. The employee who stayed past their shift will not get paid for those extra minutes of work, while the late employee will get paid for minutes that they did not work.
While this may not seem like a big deal at first glance, those minutes add up to hours over the course of the year. For example, suppose an employee consistently arrives 10 minutes late for their shift 5 days of the week. Given two weeks of vacation time, which leaves roughly 250 working days of the year, that adds up to nearly 42 hours of time that an employee was not paid for their work and someone else was paid for work that they didn't actually do.
The only way to get paid for that work would be for the employee to alert the supervisor to the late employee's behavior. This may not be an option for some employees, for various reasons. The late employee may be a friend or family member of the supervisor. The employee might be afraid of coming off as a snitch. There is no option to report anonymously, as it would be obvious who reported the late employee, and the late employee may retaliate.
I would therefore like to propose a timecard app that specifically requires employees to "tag" each other in and out when turning over their shifts, in order to keep accountability. I am not aware of any other apps that meet that requirement and believe it would fill a niche that the current market lacks.