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ProductsQuery Inbox

Every employee query in one place

Employees raise pay and document queries on WhatsApp. Every one lands in a tracked inbox in the Jem Hub, ready to be managed or resolved.

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Why it matters

Right now, employee queries reach you via a supervisor or in a WhatsApp group nobody owns. Nobody can see how many there are, who's dealing with them, or whether the issue was resolved.

The Jem Hub on a laptop, showing the query overview: queries by type, who raised them, and how many are still open

How we solve it

Your employees raise a query against the payslip or document it's actually about, and it arrives in your Query Inbox with all the relevant attachments. Your team answers once, and the reply goes back on WhatsApp.

An inbox built to be worked

  • One queue across every site

    Queries from every branch, region and site arrive in the same place. Nobody needs to be on site to answer them.

  • Search and filter

    Find any query by employee name or number. Filter by type or status to see exactly what is still open.

  • Open and resolved, kept apart

    Open queries sit in their own tab so nothing quietly disappears. Resolved ones stay on the record.

  • A log of what was asked and answered

    Every query and every reply is stored against the employee. When there is a dispute or an audit, the answer is one search away.

How it works

  1. Raise

    The employee finds the payslip or document in question on WhatsApp and submits a query against it. No form to collect, no office to visit, no manager to catch between shifts.

  2. Land

    The query arrives in the Query Inbox in the Jem Hub, tagged to the employee and the document, ready for whoever handles pay queries.

  3. Resolve

    Your team replies in the Hub. The employee is notified on WhatsApp and the query is closed off.

What it does for your business

Payroll stops firefighting

The same question stops arriving five different ways. Queries come in once, in one place, with the payslip already attached, so payroll can spend month end on payroll.

Managers get their shift back

Supervisors stop being the pay-query help desk. Employees go straight to the people who can actually answer, which is better for both of them.

Recurring problems become visible

When forty people query the same deduction, you see a pattern instead of forty separate interruptions.

It scales when you do

TiAuto added 30 stores with no added HR headcount. Query volume grows with your workforce. The work of handling it does not have to.

Questions employers ask us

What can employees raise a query about?

Payslips and pay, leave, and the HR documents you send through Jem.

We already have an ESS portal, or employees just phone HR. Why change?

Portals and apps ask a frontline worker for a download, storage, data and another password, so most never get used. Phone calls and corridor conversations leave no record at all. Jem sits on WhatsApp, where frontline adoption averages 85% across 200+ employers, and every query is logged.

Who answers the queries?

Your team does, in the Jem Hub. Jem does not answer on your behalf.

Will we not get fewer queries once payslips arrive properly?

Usually yes. Ceramic Industries went from more than 100 payslip queries a month to fewer than 2. The queries that remain are the real ones, and those are the ones worth tracking properly.

Do employees need to download anything?

No. Everything happens on WhatsApp, like the rest of Jem.

Security your board will sign off.

  • ISO 27001 certified
  • Meta Business Partner
  • POPIA compliant
  • Monitored by Sprinto

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