Google unveils app for managing off-site workers

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Google today unveiled a location-based, check-in style service designed to help businesses oversee and direct their employees in the field.
Google Maps Coordinate could, for example, be used by a dispatcher at a utility company to find out which of its repair trucks was closest to a downed power line, assign that driver to the repair task, and issue appropriate instructions, Google said in a blog post.

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