Jem | Unlock your deskless workforce

Trusted by 200+ employers and 250,000+ deskless workers across Africa

Reasons for every executive to sign off

See the value Jem brings to your people and business through the seat you sit in.

For CHROs

People & adoption

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Reach every worker, and prove it.

One channel that reaches your entire workforce, with HR operations in one place instead of several.

Documents, queries and announcements that reach every worker
One central location to manage your frontline, get insights and take action
Surveys and polls that get meaningful response rates

Connect · Manage · Reward

One place to run your entire frontline

Communications, HR operations and financial benefits in a single platform, so you can avoid multiple systems that don't talk to each other.

Meet your workforce where they already are: WhatsApp.

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Connect

Reach every frontline worker instantly, and prove it.

Company-wide announcements
Two-way surveys and polls
Segmentation for targeted messaging
Multi-company comms for groups
White-labelled custom chatbots

Manage

You run everything on Jem. They get everything on WhatsApp.

Secure document sending (payslips, IRP5s)
Roster and timesheet delivery
Clocking and smart rostering
Leave management
Query inbox (ticketing)

Reward

Benefits that put more money in your people's pockets.

Earned wage access
Mobile phones & data
Retail vouchers
Savings account
Employee Assistance Programme
Financial education

How it works

Live in three steps.

Connect your workforce
We import your employee list and your people opt in on WhatsApp. No app, no downloads, no training.
Turn on what you need
Start with one or two products, or commit to the full Comprehensive plan from day one.
See your whole business
Run, manage and measure every site from one live view in the Jem Hub.

Already running another platform? So were many of our clients. When WastePlan switched to a competitor, their employees brought Jem back within six weeks.

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Trusted by Africa's biggest frontline employers.

“Jem gives our employees the dignity to not have to divulge their financial situation to their managers. It provides them with access to funds in a controlled environment.”

Malcolm Smith

CFO • Retailability

Case study

Meridian: from printed payslips to a fully engaged workforce.

Retail services · 5,500 employees

R225k

Average monthly savings to employees

98%

Platform adoption

80%+

Survey response

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We exist to unlock Africa's deskless workforce.

75% of South Africa's workforce is deskless, yet only about 1% of enterprise software is built for them. They're locked out of software built for office workers and locked out of fair financial services because they're deemed high risk. Jem is the key that meets them where they are, on their terms. We're proudly South African and expanding across the continent.

Our story