Tepia builds custom employee apps for frontline and deskless teams that put shift schedules, pay information, company news, policies and forms in one iOS and Android app. The app signs people in through Microsoft Entra ID or Okta and pulls data from HR, payroll and scheduling systems such as ADP, UKG and Workday.
Employees without a desk or a company laptop still need their schedule, their pay and the news, and an employee app is often the only channel that reaches them.
Tepia designs for people who open the app on a break, so schedules, swaps and time off requests take two taps, not a login maze.
Read: Employee Onboarding and HR App Development
Content and forms support the languages your crews speak, with translations your team manages rather than strings hard coded in the app.
Read: Single Sign On and Identity Integration
Single sign on runs through Entra ID or Okta, with a secure option for workers who have no corporate email, so nobody shares a password.
Read: Enterprise Mobile App Development
Tepia supports personal phones without full device management, keeping company data inside the app and wiping it when someone leaves.
Workforce figures Tepia plans around when scoping an employee app.
Emergence Capital research estimates about 80 percent of the global workforce is deskless, working away from a computer most of the day.
Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace report puts the share of engaged employees worldwide at only about 20 percent.
Tepia clients report apps averaging 4.5 stars on the App Store and Google Play, a sign people keep opening them after launch.
Office staff already have email, Teams and an intranet. The people an employee app serves are the ones those tools miss: nurses and patient transporters, warehouse pickers, retail associates, hotel housekeepers, restaurant crews, drivers and field technicians. Today they learn about schedule changes from a group text, find policy updates on a breakroom board, and call HR to ask where their pay stub is.
Tepia builds employee apps around the realities of that work. Many frontline workers have no corporate email address, so sign in cannot depend on one. Some share a device at a station or kiosk. Shift times change weekly, and a missed notice means a missed shift. Unionized sites may need specific notices posted and acknowledged. Multi site companies need news targeted by location and role, so a distribution center in Kansas City does not get the Tampa store’s parking update.
The goal is not another app to ignore. It is one trusted place where an employee checks their next shift, swaps it, sees what changed this week and gets answers, all in the time it takes to finish a coffee.
Tepia scopes modules from the questions employees ask most, then connects each one to the system that already owns the data, so HR and operations teams do not maintain information twice.
| Module | What employees do | System it connects to |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule and shift swaps | See upcoming shifts, offer or pick up shifts, get alerts on changes | UKG, Deputy, When I Work or a custom scheduler |
| Pay and tax documents | View pay stubs and W-2 forms, update direct deposit | ADP, Paylocity, Paycom or Workday |
| Time off | Request leave and see balances and approvals | HRIS such as Workday or BambooHR |
| News and acknowledgments | Read targeted updates and confirm required notices | Content admin built into the app |
| Forms and incident reports | Report a safety issue or damaged equipment with photos | Safety or facilities system, or email routing |
| Directory and contacts | Find a supervisor or the right HR contact by location | Microsoft Entra ID or the HRIS |
| Recognition | Give and receive shout outs tied to company values | App database, with export to HR |
| Training | Complete short lessons and see certifications due | LMS such as Cornerstone or a custom library |
Most companies launch with three or four modules and add the rest once usage is steady. New hire tasks usually belong in a dedicated flow, covered on our employee onboarding app page.
An employee app holds pay data, home addresses and internal communications, so Tepia designs security in from the first wireframe.
Tepia also builds offline caching for schedules and key documents, because basements, freezers and remote sites often lack signal.
Launch day downloads are easy. Weekly use six months later is what makes an employee app worth having, and Tepia treats that as an engineering problem, the same way we approach apps engineered for retention in consumer products.
Three practices matter most. First, notifications must be earned: targeted by site, team and role, never a company wide blast for a local update, so people do not mute the app. Second, the first screen should answer the most common question, which is usually the next shift, without any tapping. Third, content needs an owner. Tepia builds a simple publishing tool for HR and site managers with scheduling, targeting and read receipts, so the feed stays current. Our push notification work goes deeper on timing and targeting.
Tepia instruments the app from day one with weekly active users by site, notification open rates and module usage, so you can see which locations adopted it and which need a manager nudge.
Tepia runs its six phase process with a US based project manager and design leadership involved from the first site visit.
Typically Discovery takes 1 to 3 months, development and QA 2 to 6 months, and launch about a month. See our work or talk to Tepia about your workforce.
A paragraph or two with information on your product/service or describes a problem your product/service is designed to solve.
CEO
Senior Project Manager
VP & Operations Manager
