Most Zimbabweans  have reacted positively after companies were urged to consider paying their workers’ salaries using the Ecocash Payroll system.

This will help ease the bank queue problems prevalent in the country every month, Econet said.

Thousands of workers yesterday waved the thumb of approval to the proposal.

The Econet Wireless Zimbabwe group chief executive officer Douglas Mboweni said,  “our observation has shown that disbursing staff salaries through banks forces them and their families to spend long periods of time standing in bank queues to access their money. Whereas if we disburse it directly to them, via EcoCash Payroll, they can decide for themselves how much they want to transfer to their banks.

“…For example, payments to farmers are being done using EcoCash — to the Grain Marketing Board, Cottco and the tobacco auction floors and too much of the agro and processing industry. NGOs have also been using EcoCash for the past four years to carry out aid-related disbursements to individuals, in mostly rural areas.”