Joyful - Social HR Diary/Journal

Inspiration

The advent of social media and the challenges of human resource inspired be to created a social media for the workplace.

What it does

Problems:

• employees don't like termination
  • signs of termination
    • Your boss starts expressing unhappiness with you.
    • You get written up.
    • The write ups escalate.
    • You get excluded.
    • You get demoted.
    • Meetings are canceled.
    • You get set up for failure.
    • reasons you might not know even if you know
• employees want to meet others from other companies

Solution:

• a social diary/journal
  • set public or private
  • public:
    • share with company (see monitization)
    • gain social media following
  • OR keep it to yourself
    • daily/journal
    • OPTIONAL: machine learning sentiment analysis

Benefits:

• social media aspects allows comfort among employees while tailoring to the workplace
  • comfort with social-media-like environment
  • monitor performance
  • connect with your company or others
  • external feedback
  • moral support
• human resource has more avenues
• monetization:
  • ads (doesn't hurt)
  • companies subscribe to get access to a feed of posts (monthly subscription)
  • companies can pay to get an official account

How I built it

It uses Vanilla JavaScript and a little bit of REST API's.

Challenges I ran into

Organizing a team with different programming skills.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Learning more about the challenges of HR and finding a solution. I generally don't focus on the workplace for my projects, but I am proud of doing so for this event.

What I learned

The solutions to HR always seems to be more stern.

What's next for Joyful - Social HR Diary/Journal

Structuring it to the capacities of an actual social media network (e.g. database, UI/UX, polish).

Built With

• javascript
• json
• php