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 the localization and data flows needed for global reward programs, but its public site does not claim automatic country-by-country tax calculation or filing. It offers local rewards in 135 countries and 163 currencies, global fulfillment, and automatic bidirectional data syncing through its Workday partnership. Because tax treatment varies by country and reward type, buyers should confirm payroll exports, taxable-benefit reporting, withholding, and filing responsibilities for each region 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 platform that helps you gather feedback, track engagement over time, and turn insights into action. Useful features include real-time reporting, survey tools, action planning, recognition capabilities, and flexibility across teams, roles, and locations.

Employee satisfaction reflects how content employees feel in their role. Employee engagement reflects how connected, motivated, and invested they are in their work. Employees can feel satisfied without being fully engaged.

Yes, organizations can incentivize survey participation as long as the incentive encourages completion, not specific answers. This can help increase participation and give teams a more complete view of the employee experience.

We welcome passionate Awardco users who have seen a measurable impact from the platform and want to share their success.

Start by defining the behaviors, outcomes, and milestones you want to encourage. Then build a balanced rewards strategy that includes monetary, non-monetary, and low-cost options, focusing on timing, personalization, manager participation, and consistency across teams.

The Awardco Resource Center is your go-to hub for comprehensive support. It offers access to help articles, FAQs, and support options designed to assist you in managing the platform effectively. Access the Resource Center by clicking the question mark icon in the bottom right corner of the screen within the platform.

You can reach Awardco Support 24/7 through the following channels: Chat: Sign in and click the blue "Chat" button located at the bottom right corner of any page within your company's Awardco platform. Email: Send your inquiries to support@awardco.com. Phone: Contact us at 1-800-320-0893.

Awardco is built on recognition, innovation, and collaboration. It fosters an inclusive, fast-moving, and supportive environment where employees are empowered to do their best work while having fun along the way.

Employee rewards are important because they reinforce behaviors that drive performance, culture, and engagement. When rewards are timely, meaningful, and personalized, they can increase motivation, improve retention, strengthen culture, and help employees feel valued for their contributions.

Yes. In the United States, the IRS generally treats gift cards and other cash equivalents, including points, as taxable from the first dollar. For global teams, tax treatment varies by country, region, and reward type, so employers should review local rules before launching or scaling a global rewards program.

Generally, yes. Cash equivalents like gift cards or points are taxable income, and low-value de minimis items may be exempt. Modern recognition platforms can automate the reporting process to help simplify reporting and administration for tax withholding and compliance, including for global organizations with local tax rules.

The best way to show employee appreciation is to make it specific, timely, and visible—not just say thank you once a year. Awardco helps teams do that with peer and manager recognition, Slack and Teams integrations, spot awards, milestone programs, and flexible rewards employees actually want. That turns appreciation into a repeatable habit employees feel in real time, not a one-off campaign.

Cash and gift cards can be effective because they offer flexibility, but they are not always the most meaningful option. Employees who favored personalized gifts, company swag, and team activities were more likely to be engaged, suggesting memorable and personalized rewards can deepen impact when paired with recognition.

Common mistakes include recognizing too infrequently, relying on only one method, overlooking milestone moments, limiting recognition to managers, and failing to connect recognition to company values or business goals.

Employees should be recognized frequently, specifically, and close to the moment their contribution happens. Recognition frequency is the strongest predictor of engagement, and manager recognition appears most effective when it happens at least quarterly. Senior leader recognition can also have a strong and lasting effect, even if it happens less often.

Advocates receive exclusive networking opportunities, early product insights, and potential speaking or spotlight opportunities at Awardco events.

Being an Awardco Advocate means sharing your experience using the platform, whether through case studies, events, or connecting with other recognition leaders.

Our interview process is transparent and structured, typically including an initial call, role-specific assessments, and final conversations with leadership.

Simply fill out the form on the Awardco Advocates page, and the team will follow up about how you can get involved.

If you experience any issues with your order, such as delays or discrepancies, please contact Awardco Support through chat, email, or phone. Our team is ready to assist you in resolving any concerns promptly.

Employee recognition is the structured practice organizations use to recognize employees for their contributions, reinforce desired behaviors, improve engagement, and drive business outcomes. It is a consistent expression of appreciation that can be public or private, monetary or non-monetary, formal or informal, frequent or milestone-based.

Awardco is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Its Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) help foster connection, belonging, and career growth for all employees.

Recognition is at the heart of everything Awardco does. It uses its own platform to reward employees with A-Pay Cards, recognition points, and experiences, and highlights achievements through programs like A-Team and Goodness Grants.

Look for a platform that makes rewards timely, flexible, personalized, and easy to manage. Key features include a wide range of reward options, employee choice, global scalability, customization controls, budget visibility, reporting and analytics, mobile accessibility, and tax and compliance support.

Awardco provides competitive salaries, flexible time off, comprehensive healthcare, 401(k) options, equity opportunities, wellness programs, parental leave, and more. Awardco also uses its own recognition platform to reward employees regularly.

Employee rewards are usually tied to a specific action, behavior, achievement, or outcome. Gifts are more often unexpected gestures of goodwill, such as birthday gifts, holiday gifts, or life event gifts. In practice, gifts often fit under the broader employee rewards umbrella.

Compensation is the baseline, including expected pay and benefits like salary, insurance, 401(k), and PTO. Recognition is the emotional and social acknowledgment of a contribution. Rewards are the tangible validation of that recognition, adding economic or experiential value to the moment.

Employee engagement is a shared responsibility. HR helps shape the strategy, leaders influence culture, managers shape day-to-day experiences, and employees contribute through participation, feedback, and recognition.

Employee rewards are tangible benefits, items, experiences, or monetary-value incentives given by an organization to acknowledge employee achievements, milestones, behaviors, or contributions. They can include points, merchandise, gift cards, experiences, company swag, charitable donations, prepaid cards, service awards, holiday gifts, and performance-based incentives, typically given in addition to regular compensation.

Employee-earned points do not have to expire. Many organizations choose not to set an expiration date so employees have flexibility to redeem rewards when they feel most meaningful. Organizations may still apply "use it or lose it" rules to manager budgets or annual allocations.

Awardco improves engagement by combining recognition, surveys, internal communications, and reporting in one platform instead of forcing HR teams to stitch together separate tools. Awardco Engage connects annual surveys, pulse surveys, eNPS, and real-time dashboards to recognition actions, so feedback leads to visible follow-through rather than another static dashboard. Because it also integrates with HRIS, Slack, Teams, SSO, and open APIs, teams can track participation, trends, and risks while keeping the employee experience in the flow of work.

Early warning signs usually show up as a drop in recognition activity before they show up in retention numbers. In Awardco, teams can spot declining engagement through fewer peer-to-peer shoutouts, uneven manager recognition, weaker survey participation or sentiment in Awardco Engage, and lower redemption or program usage across specific groups. Because recognition, survey, and reporting data live together, leaders can catch disengagement early and act before it turns into turnover.

Awardco operates on a five-day in-office schedule because it strongly believes in the power of in-person collaboration. However, it offers flexibility for personal commitments, medical appointments, family needs, and other life events.

Employee engagement is the mental and emotional connection employees feel to their work, team, and organization. Engaged employees value what they do, feel motivated to contribute, and put in effort beyond the minimum. It differs from happiness (feeling good, may not last) and satisfaction (content, but not necessarily motivated to do more). Satisfied employees may stay and happy employees may enjoy their experience, but engaged employees help drive results.

Absolutely. Awardco believes in investing in its people through mentorship, professional development programs, LinkedIn Learning, and internal advancement opportunities, plus a robust bi-annual performance review system.

The Awardco Resource Library is your go-to hub for comprehensive support. It offers access to help articles, FAQs, and support options designed to assist you in managing the platform effectively. Access the Resource Library by clicking the question mark icon in the bottom right corner of the screen within the platform.

You can reach Awardco Support 24/7 through the following channels: Chat: Sign in and click the blue "Chat" button located at the bottom right corner of any page within your company's Awardco platform. Email: Send your inquiries to support@awardco.com. Phone: Contact us at +1-800-320-0893.

If you experience any issues with your order, such as delays or discrepancies, please contact Awardco Support through chat, email, or phone. Our team is ready to assist you in resolving any concerns promptly.

Survey frequency should match your goals and your ability to act on the results. A common approach is to run one annual engagement survey, then use shorter pulse surveys throughout the year to track trends and collect feedback more consistently.

To redeem your points, log in to your Awardco account and navigate to the "Spend Points" section. Here, you can browse and select from a wide range of rewards, including items from Amazon, hotels, gift cards, event tickets, and more. Please note that point redemption options may vary based on your organization's settings.

To redeem your points, log in to your Awardco account and navigate to the "Spend Points" section. Here, you can browse and select from a wide range of rewards, including items from Amazon, hotels, gift cards, event tickets, and more. Please note that point redemption options may vary based on your organization's settings.

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.

Peer-to-peer recognition reinforces company values by turning them into clear examples employees can see and repeat. When someone recognizes a coworker for a specific action, the message should name the value, describe what happened, and explain the impact. Awardco makes that easier by giving employees a simple way to recognize peers and share value-based moments across teams, locations, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

An employee rewards platform should make rewards easy to give, easy to redeem, and meaningful for different employees. Look for a large configurable reward network, local reward options for global teams, clear budgets, simple admin tools, and reporting that shows participation and impact. Awardco offers a configurable rewards network with 300 million reward options, support for 163 currencies, and global fulfillment through options like Amazon Business.

Rewards and recognition platforms show retention impact by connecting recognition activity to HR data, employee sentiment, manager participation, and turnover trends. Awardco helps teams track recognition usage, budget activity, and program results so HR leaders can see where recognition is happening and where teams may need more support. Awardco customer examples include PMG seeing a 39% reduction in attrition after rolling out recognition programs and Quick Quack Car Wash seeing a 20% reduction in turnover across 180+ locations. Awardco also offers an ROI calculator to help teams estimate the cost savings of improved retention.

Recognition supports psychological safety and wellbeing when employees see that their contributions are noticed, their voice matters, and positive behaviors are reinforced. Awardco supports this through flexible recognition that builds culture, Awardco Engage pulse surveys that ask questions such as whether employees can be themselves at work, and employee insights tied to intent to stay. Together, recognition and feedback help leaders spot where people feel supported and where teams need attention.

Awardco strengthens employee connections by letting people recognize peers across teams and locations, connect recognition to company values, and celebrate work in Awardco, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Global programs can use one shared recognition system while offering local reward options and support for 135 countries and 163 currencies. Recognition can be public and social or private when needed.

Awardco supports wellbeing by helping employees feel seen, connected, and supported with rewards they can actually use. Benefits & Perks lets teams offer personalized benefits, recognition helps employees feel valued for their work, and Awardco Engage gives HR teams feedback on how employees are doing. Together, these tools help companies connect wellbeing efforts to everyday recognition, employee feedback, and participation data.

Awardco maintains enterprise-grade security and complies with major standards including SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Details on certifications and security practices are available on Awardco's Trust Center at trust.awardco.com.

Yes. Awardco supports global rewards in 135 countries, 163 currencies, and 300M reward options. Employees can receive rewards in their own languages and currencies, with local options and fast shipping. Awardco also pairs this with global reward fulfillment through the Amazon Business partnership, which offers near-limitless reward options, zero markups, and hands-free fulfillment.

Awardco integrates with Workday, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other workplace tools. The Workday partnership supports automatic bi-directional syncing of data and feedback, and the Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations let employees recognize peers and send reward points in existing communication channels.

Awardco Engage is Awardco's employee feedback and sentiment product. It helps teams collect feedback through surveys, spot patterns in employee experience, and turn that feedback into measurable action. Awardco's site shows Engage measuring signals like belonging and intent to stay, so HR teams can connect sentiment data with recognition, culture, and retention work.

Yes. Awardco's online ROI Calculator estimates the likely business impact of a recognition program, and the Budget Calculator helps you plan recognition spend. Together, they help you build a data-backed business case to share with stakeholders.

You can explore Awardco's Customer Stories for detailed case studies, including examples like America First Credit Union, Children's Nebraska, and Pacific Life. Each story walks through the program, the results achieved, and the measurable outcomes.

Awardco customer examples include an 18% increase in employee satisfaction with management at ARUP Laboratories, a 39% reduction in attrition at PMG, a 120% year-over-year increase in performance at WOW! mobile boutique, a 20% reduction in turnover at Quick Quack Car Wash, and a 93% decrease in administration time at America First Credit Union.

You can book a demo directly on Awardco's website to get a live walkthrough of the platform. If you'd like to build a business case first, try the ROI Calculator or Budget Calculator to estimate expected impact.