The crew works outside.
The app finally does too.
PocketMode is a rostering, clock-on and timesheet app for outdoor crews. One app on the phone your crew already carries. Works with no reception. You pay for hours worked, not seats.
Everything a crew in the field actually needs.
Rostering and timesheets are the job. The safety record comes out of doing that job properly, rather than out of another form.
Rostering
Build the week, publish it, push changes to the crew. Every version is kept.
Geofencing
Sites you draw once. The fence runs for the length of the shift, not a single ping at the gate.
Clock on and off
Start and finish at the site, with travel and setup counted.
Timesheets
Worked time, breaks and approvals, ready on Friday instead of reconstructed on Friday.
Phone distraction status
Whether a smartphone was pocketed or held, classified on the device. A property of the record, never a score against a person.
Heat and weather alerts
Heat, rain, wind and storm risk reach the manager the night before.
Near miss reporting
About 20 seconds, from the same app. Anonymously if the worker would rather.
Manager dashboard
Who is on site, where the crews are, and how the day actually ran.
Signal drops. The app doesn't.
It keeps recording offline and syncs when signal returns.
Workforce software was built for the shop floor.
A civil crew spread across 4 kilometres of road corridor, a mine site with no public network and a farm 2 hours from anywhere are different conditions. Different conditions need a different product.
Works with no reception
Records on the smartphone, syncs when signal returns. No gaps, no lost time.
No hardware, no beacons
One app on the phone the crew already carries. Nothing to buy or charge.
You pay for hours, not seats
No seat fee, no minimum. A wet week costs you what the crew worked.
Sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Account Australia, March quarter 2026. Safe Work Australia, worker fatalities and fatality rates by industry division, 2024. Full working in our research.
Seven and a half cents an hour. Nothing when it rains.
A seat fee suits an office where the same people sit at the same desks all year. It suits a crew that doubles for a shutdown and disappears for the wet season considerably less well.
Per worker, per hour tracked, AUD
| Crew of 10, full 8-hour day | $6.00 |
| Same crew, averaged over a year | $114 a month |
| When it rains and nobody works | $0.00 |
Field notes, deep dives and research.
Everything we publish names its sources and is free to quote.
Officer due diligence in 2026
What section 27 asks an officer to verify, and which records carry weight as evidence.
The State of Outdoor Work
The 2.7 million Australians who work outside, and 9 things an employer can do this quarter.
Outdoor work safety: the numbers
How dangerous is outdoor work in Australia? Verified figures, every one sourced.