TOXICITY

Mild everyday toxicity is made up on micro-aggressions in day-to-day scenarios, too light to be classified as discrimination and harassment, which are crimes. Main forms are disrespect, abusive behavior, cut-throat competitiveness, narcissism, cronyism, unethical behavior. It lowers employee engagement, and constitutes toxic culture.

Talented employees cannot express their potential and quit. Employees talk about it outside, which harms employer branding.

(See: MIT: Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation
MIT: Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Toxic Culture
Harvard Business School: Cost of Toxic Workers - analysis of 50K employees )

Studies show employees don't speak because of

  • fear: lack of trust to HR, fear it will affect their career or to be mistaken.
  • Doubt that HR will take any action, or not know that they took action
    (see: WBI 2021 Survey: Toxicity statistics in US companies; Negative outcome)
  • To empower them to speak up about toxicity, you need to give them the protection of anonymity
  • To have them spread the word that it works, you need to inform them what action you took upon their report

LIABILITY & MISUSE

Avoiding misuse requires catching and deflecting behavior that looks suspicious.

JustEase's “Shield Against Anonymity Abuse” detects such behavior and blocks misuse, while still allowing employees to report non-anonymously to HR.

No free-form text can be sent between employees via JustEase, thwarting inappropriate content sending.

Using JustEase strongly protects your company from liability claims:

  • You are protected from victim's liability claims
    • 1. By enabling employees to anonymously report toxicity to HR, you defer to your legal obligation to protect them from harm at work
    • 2. By using Inquiry tools, you defer to your obligation to investigate complaints
    • 3. By using Action tools, you defer to your obligation to protect
  • You are protected from wrongdoer's liability claims
    JustEase HR Action Tools are either
    • Voluntary (Educative Reparation, Bystander Initiative)
    • Or job adaptation training (mandatory Interactive Games) i.e. well within employer's rights

DATA & IT

Employee data is stored on super-secure servers with the highest standards of information security. We conduct penetration testing to prevent the vulnerability of our systems and databases. We also follow comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity protocols to make sure that your data and our system is always available.

We have industry leading information security standards to prevent unauthorized access. Moreover, access to reports is limited to people nominated by your company and you have full access-control privileges to ensure that the right people have access to the right kind of information.

In line with our privacy principles, we do not sell any part of your data. We may use anonymized and non-nominative data to improve our algorithms.

Our app can be used, as you wish, either as

  • A fully standalone system with no impact on your existing IT setup
  • Or with a JustEase provided API and file integration to make this data available in your existing systems.

You own your data. You can download data at any time.

But neither you nor we can de-anonymize it since we are legally committed to protect your employees’ anonymity (Anonymized Feedback, Report to HR, and Targeted Survey)

MISCELLANOUS

JustEase uses industry-leading data and information security measures and ensure strict compliance to GDPR and CCPA standards for privacy. Through advanced encryption between databases, it is virtually impossible to look up the identity of anonymous senders.

Currently, employees cannot access our training games in the Free version of the Employee Console. However, these games are available to employees at any time when you have purchased the subscription that gives you access to the Case Management dashboard, Analytics, Inquiry and Action tools.

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