Awardco improves performance by turning recognition into a visible, repeatable system instead of sporadic praise. Teams can run peer-to-peer recognition, manager recognition, nominations, and goal-linked incentives in one platform, then pair each moment with millions of reward options through Amazon Business, gift cards, travel, merch, and more so appreciation feels timely and personal. Customers have seen measurable gains—WOW! mobile boutique increased employee performance 120% YoY and engagement scores 10% YoY after launching peer-to-peer recognition.

Awardco turns years-of-service awards into an automated, on-time experience instead of a spreadsheet project. Teams can trigger milestone recognition from hire dates, send employee and manager notifications, fund awards with points, and pair them with public recognition, certificates, letters, or plaques. That helps long-term loyalty feel personal and visible while keeping administration and reporting under control.

Awardco helps employees choose rewards that actually match their lives instead of forcing everyone into the same catalog. Through our Amazon Business partnership, gift cards, travel, experiences, charitable giving, company swag, and cash-like options, employees can redeem points for what matters most in their region and budget. That flexibility increases perceived value and avoids the common problem of rewards people do not want.

A rewards marketplace works because it gives employees real choice while giving admins real control. Awardco combines millions of Amazon Business options, gift cards, experiences, and custom catalogs with zero markups, free global shipping, and hands-free fulfillment, so programs feel more valuable to employees without adding inventory or admin work for HR. That means better redemption experiences for employees and cleaner budget efficiency for the teams running the program.

Recognition drives engagement when employees can see it, give it easily, and connect it to everyday work. Awardco puts peer, manager, and leadership recognition into tools like Slack and Teams, and the results compound—PMG found employees were 30% more likely to send recognition after receiving one, and people who sent 4+ recognitions were 50% less likely to leave. When recognition is visible and repeatable, it strengthens belonging across teams instead of living in private one-off moments.

Employees perform better when they feel seen by the people they work with, not just by their manager. Awardco helps build that connection with peer-to-peer recognition, visible company feeds, Slack integrations, and community features that make wins easy to share across teams and locations. At PMG, that kind of visible recognition became a cultural cornerstone that strengthened relationships, morale, and performance across the organization.

Remote and hybrid teams stay engaged when recognition is asynchronous, visible, and built into the tools people already use. Awardco supports public recognition feeds, Slack and Teams delivery, mobile and SMS touchpoints, localized rewards, and manager reporting to spot proximity bias; 84% of remote and hybrid employees say recognition makes them feel more connected to their company. That means distance stops being a culture barrier because appreciation shows up in the flow of work, not just in the office.

Companies with strong recognition cultures outperform because recognition reinforces the behaviors and values that drive results, while making employees feel seen, motivated, and connected to the organization. When recognition is frequent, visible, and tied to company goals, it strengthens engagement, improves retention, and helps build a culture where high performance is more likely to scale.

Companies reinforce employee wellness behaviors by tying recognition and rewards to participation in healthy activities such as wellness challenges, fitness goals, and well-being programs. When healthy behaviors are made visible, celebrated, and supported with flexible incentives, participation becomes more consistent and wellness efforts feel more engaging, motivating, and sustainable.

Sales incentive programs drive measurable performance improvements by aligning rewards with clear goals, motivating the behaviors that matter most, and keeping teams focused on revenue-driving activities. When incentives are tailored to specific roles, built around achievable targets, and paired with meaningful rewards, companies can improve productivity, engagement, and overall sales results while making performance easier to track and optimize.

Recognition helps employees build stronger personal connections by making appreciation direct, specific, and visible. Peer-to-peer recognition encourages employees to acknowledge each other's contributions in the moment, which fosters genuine connection, collaboration, inclusion, and friendship across teams. When recognition can be shared publicly - including through everyday tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams - coworkers can celebrate each other's wins in real time, helping people feel connected even when they work in different locations.

Awardco does not publish category-by-category redemption rates, so it does not claim that one category has the highest rate. Its configurable network gives employees 300 million options, including Amazon products, gift cards, travel and hotels, event tickets, experiences, charitable donations, and branded merchandise. Employers can configure the catalog, and employees can choose local options across 135 countries and 163 currencies.

Awardco supports rewards in 135 countries and 163 currencies, with local options and global fulfillment. Its Workday partnership supports bidirectional data syncing, and its Trust Center provides information about data compliance and security. Awardco's public site does not state that it automatically calculates or reports taxable rewards by country, so organizations should confirm regional tax, payroll, and reporting workflows during implementation.

Awardco Engage is an add-on module within Awardco, not a separate vendor experience employees have to learn from scratch. It lives in the same consolidated platform employees already use for recognition and rewards.

Awardco Engage is more than a survey tool because it connects employee listening to recognition action in the same platform. Feedback should lead somewhere, not stop at another dashboard, and Awardco helps employees feel seen and heard.

Celebrating all nominees validates the hard work of every recognized employee, maximizing the cultural impact of the program. Acknowledging only the final winners can inadvertently demotivate highly capable runner-ups, while sharing recognition for all candidates fosters inclusivity and increases future participation.

Awardco Engage is strongest as a native connection between employee feedback and recognition, not as a bolted-on layer that leaves action in a separate system. It can complement the rest of an HR stack and delivery channels, with real value coming when insights and recognition live in one place.

Awardco is a modular employee experience platform that connects recognition, rewards, listening, and community in one unified system. Recognition is the foundation, but the platform is designed so products share a unified data layer, experience, and intelligence infrastructure.

Yes, Awardco Intelligence is built to integrate seamlessly with existing tools and systems, working within a current tech stack to enhance workflows, surface insights, and support team goals without disruption, whether through Awardco Connect or native integrations.

Awardco Intelligence follows the same strict data security standards as the rest of the Awardco platform, using enterprise-grade protections, complying with industry regulations, and applying responsible AI practices to ensure data is handled securely and transparently.

Engage surveys default to confidentiality, with thresholds and protections designed to protect employees while still allowing demographic and organizational reporting, so employees can give honest feedback without stripping leaders of usable insight.

Awardco automates milestone recognition so service anniversaries and other key moments do not get missed. Because recognition lives inside the broader Awardco platform, those workflows can also connect to onboarding, integrations, and the wider employee experience.

An employee nomination program is a structured recognition program where employees, peers, or leaders formally nominate someone for a specific award based on defined criteria like impact, values alignment, or performance. Awardco's modern nomination programs are tech-enabled systems that collect nominations, support approval or voting workflows, and culminate in recognition and rewards rather than forcing admins to manage the process manually across forms, email, and spreadsheets.

Awardco is built to protect employee privacy: engagement results are aggregated, only appear when minimum response thresholds are met, and small groups are rolled up to protect confidentiality so managers do not see who said what. Awardco states support for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, AES-256 encryption, TLS encryption in transit, SSO/MFA, and DSAR workflows including right-to-erasure requests.

Implementation is typically a guided rollout, not a rip-and-replace project: kickoff and strategy, question-set alignment, build and testing, client validation, then launch and reporting setup. Scope depends more on things like legacy survey mapping, reporting structure, and stakeholder alignment than on headcount alone.

Separate tools can measure sentiment and run recognition, but they do not close the loop between the two. Feedback shows what matters, recognition is how you act on it, and when both happen in the same system employees can actually see that their voice led somewhere.

Yes. Engage is additive: it builds on the recognition foundation already in place and adds employee listening, insights, and a clearer path to action instead of forcing a full reset, making an existing recognition strategy more intentional and responsive.

Employees choose their own reward from a catalog of millions of options, including Amazon, Best Buy, experiences, travel, charity, and branded merch, so every reward feels personal instead of assigned. Clients can also curate their own catalogs to match their company or programs.

Awardco is designed to reach more than desk-based employees, including easy offline recognition for deskless teams and outside-in recognition from customers, patients, patrons, and more. The product also supports recognition in the flow of work through connected channels like Slack, Teams, and a modern mobile experience.

Awardco brings multiple recognition motions into one product, including peer-to-peer recognition, manager to employee, nomination programs, service awards, and performance incentives, wellness programs, life events, and more.

Awardco supports recognition with social visibility, so great work can be seen and reinforced across the organization. At the same time, recognition experiences can be configured to fit employee preferences and company norms, including more private moments when needed.

Yes, Awardco provides a unified global infrastructure for both individual and group nominations across teams, departments, or international locations, leveraging real-time HRIS metadata to automate eligibility rules while offering localized reward fulfillment through a global marketplace.

Automated nomination platforms help reduce bias by replacing opaque, ad hoc decision-making with clear criteria, structured workflows, eligibility controls, and centralized review data. Awardco emphasizes transparency, configurable voting rules, and data-backed decisions so programs are less dependent on who is loudest, closest to leadership, or easiest to remember in a manual review process.

Awardco Engage supports both engagement surveys and pulse surveys, as well as any other custom surveys clients would like to use.

Awardco replaces fragmented nomination workflows with one centralized system for program setup, nomination collection, review, rounds, winner selection, and recognition. Admins configure nomination programs directly in Awardco, collect submissions through the platform, manage rounds in the dashboard, and recognize winners or all nominees from the same workflow.

The Awardco MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server connects Awardco data to external AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot, letting HR teams ask questions in natural language and get answers instantly instead of pulling reports manually. It's currently in beta.

Awardco Intelligence is designed with fairness and transparency as a core AI design tenet. While AI helps surface insights and streamline recognition, human oversight remains a key part of the process, and systems are continuously evaluated to support equitable experiences.

Yes, Awardco Intelligence is designed to be flexible. Organizations can enable or disable certain features based on their needs, ensuring alignment with internal policies and preferences.

The Motivation Graph is Awardco's proprietary dataset spanning recognition, rewards, engagement, and incentives across 3,000+ companies. It powers the AI's ability to predict behavior and surface personalized recommendations, not just report on what already happened.

Awardco provides support for survey setup, rollout, and follow-through. Teams can launch engagement and pulse surveys with implementation guidance and best practices, then use clear reporting to get insights into the hands of leaders and managers so they can identify trends, uncover risks, and take action.

Awardco replaces fragmented engagement tools with one connected platform, so recognition, rewards, listening, and culture signals live together and nothing falls through the cracks. That gives HR and People teams one place to run recognition and engagement programs instead of stitching together multiple systems.

Awardco is built for broad workforce coverage, including global and frontline-heavy environments, with connected workflows that make recognition easier to access across employee types.

Awardco gives admins one place to manage programs, budgets, and reporting across the platform. Reports range from detailed drill-downs to strategic high-level overviews, with full access given to admins to use their organizational metadata to surface insights that otherwise might go unnoticed.

Awardco connects with many different HRIS, communication platforms, and everyday workflows to simplify recognition, rewards, and engagement, scaling culture with ease.

Look for a recognition platform with local reward options, multiple currencies, flexible integrations, clear reporting, and security controls that work across regions. Awardco supports global programs with rewards in 135 countries, 163 currencies, and 300 million reward options. It also connects with tools like Workday, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, and uses its Amazon Business partnership for broad reward choice and hands-free fulfillment.

Awardco helps employees feel connected by making recognition easy to send across departments, locations, and communication tools. Employees can recognize peers and give reward points within Awardco, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, while Awardco's global rewards network lets teams recognize employees in their own languages and currencies.

Awardco customers have reported significant, measurable results after rolling out recognition programs. For example, PMG saw a 39% drop in employee attrition, America First Credit Union cut administrative time for its recognition program by 93%, and WOW! mobile boutique saw a 121% year-over-year increase in performance. Individual results vary by organization — see Awardco's customer case studies for details on each example.

Awardco's ROI calculator lets you enter your headcount, turnover rate, and average salary to generate an estimated return you can download and share with your team.