Our chart of accounts shows employee loans as an "other current assets". Is that the best way to categorize them? I would think it was an expense or A/R

I am not fully understanding why a loan that we give to an employee would be an asset? It is money we are out up front and (hopefully) paid back at a later date. I would assume it is an A/R but maybe there is some other way to classify it. If there is, how would I change this account?