Justworks, which provides online benefits, payroll, human resources, and compliance applications, has launched an educational site. The resource, the Guidepost, is described as providing “free educational resources for people as they prepare for and progress through major life events.”
Guidepost courses available at launch are Healthcare Savings Hacks, Navigating Mental Health Support”, Financial Health 101: Debt & Student Loans, and Financial Planning for First-Time Parents,.”
Content was designed to provide for easy-to-digest, short courses common, life events experienced by the modern workforce. Courses are divided into lessons with individuals able to learn at their own speed an style.
A beta of the Guidepost was originally developed with crowdsourced content from its own employees, generated 8,000 subscribers.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind