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by nemomarx 6 hours ago
For an office door, why not a key card or lanyard badge or whatever? A code? I feel like you could use something easier than an app too.
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You're in a rush in the morning and you leave home without your badge.

Happens to me at least once a month. But I almost never don't have my phone.

Key cards/badges don’t have GPS in them and can’t keep tabs on you outside the office.
it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep up.)
Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.