Can a VPN bypass Paylocity geofencing?

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My workplace recently implemented a mandatory switch if all previously salaried employees - myself included - to hourly, which on the surface is just them remaining in compliance with my state’s salary threshold. But the more nefarious change that came with this is that Paylocity, the service we use for hours, PTO, and recruiting, uses geofencing when an employee is hourly.

Before, I could enter in the hours I would be working for the pay period and call it good. Now, you can only clock in and out if you enable the Paylocity app to have location access. Everybody is pissed. Supervisors, employees, even project managers, because it makes all our jobs harder. None of us are doing anything shady with our time sheets, but we simply don’t want our employer to be tracking us.

Will a VPN help to spoof this type of geofencing so they can’t do that?

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You now no longer own a personal device capable of using Paylocity.

VPN won’t help, fake GPS source will help.

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Can you not just log into the Paylocity web site instead of using the app on your phone?

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You can setup a “virtual phone” app on your computer, and then spoof your GPS location on that. Requires android comparable apps, but that’s it.

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Isn’t your company worried about hackers?

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If you have an android phone, you can use an app that changes your GPS location to where you want it. As far as I know there isn’t an app that does that on the iPhone. Don’t ask how I know this…

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This is the mark of the beast, right here. Me? If they told me I had to load something on my phone, I’d tell them to fuck straight off.

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How does that work? Is there a program that can do that?

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Normally, I would say yes, but our company system is so unbelievably sluggish, it takes over 5mins to get the things to boot up. So by that time, we are clocking in 5mins late and our supervisor has to manually fix everything.

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Download BlueStacks on your computer, it’s an android device emulator. You can install the paylocity app on it and then set the location of the “phone” to your workplace. Whenever it’s on you will be at work.

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In the Play Store at least, you can search for gps changer, fake gps, etc. for various options.

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Sounds like a bit of mandatory compliance to do it from the website.

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Sounds like this could be a job for malicious compliance….how unproductive and also how much work time are they going to lose by your manager having to correct all the crap because they don’t have an effective system or provide work devices to operate work apps

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This doesn’t work…paylocity will know if you are using a gps emulator/simulated gps service. They have included in their app coding to scan your device and check for alternate location enabled in developer options…they have full access to your phone’s settings and, therefore, all information contained therein.