Employee Birthdays & holidays
Celebrate festive occasions with style
Automate celebrations, personalize rewards, and ensure no special occasion goes unnoticed—regardless of where your employees are.
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Return on recognition
Why celebrate birthdays and holidays at work?
Recognition doesn’t always have to be tied to performance. Celebrating birthdays and holidays offers an easy, reoccurring, and impactful way to show employees they matter. These personal moments deepen engagement and help create a culture of care that resonates far beyond the workplace.
Performance
69
%
of employees say they would work harder if they felt more appreciated.
Retention
31
%
lower turnover in companies with strong recognition programs.
Satisfaction
81
%
of employees believe personalized recognition improves their workplace satisfaction.
end-to-end flexibility
Never miss a chance to celebrate
Whether it’s birthdays, national holidays, regional celebrations, or company-centric events, make these meaningful moments unforgettable.
Employee Birthdays
Meaningful birthday recognitions
Skip the generic card—and the hassle. Make every employee birthday celebration feel personal:
- Celebrate peers in a dedicated birthday feed with custom messages
- Share birthday shoutouts to Slack or monitors for (optional) company-wide visibility
- Send points or curated gifts employees will actually love
- Utilize user profiles to give thoughtful, interest-based gifts
testimonials
What customers are saying
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The High Flyer program has created a culture where both individual and team contributions are celebrated. Success is seen as a shared journey, and recognition helps strengthen that sense of unity.
Khulood AlMarzooqi
Director of Total Rewards & Employee Engagement, Dubai Airports
We have an on-the-spot recognition program where leaders can immediately recognize a CRP for demonstrating safe behavior. That recognition is visible across the organization, which motivates others to do the same. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, we’ve shifted our culture to spotlight what’s being done right—and that’s encouraged everyone to follow that path.
Roshan Varghese
Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety
It's really important for relationship building and strengthening. Having this platform that makes it super easy to recognize is what sets Kodiak apart from the rest.
Cassidy Barsdoff
Director, Project Management Office
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We used to give everyone a trophy at our annual event. Now, we reward true top performers. Awardco enables smarter, more meaningful recognition and spend.
Melissa York
SVP, Head of People & Culture
It's really fun to have a tool like Awardco to recognize and thank those people in a much more tangible way that's not only points in their wallet, but also a visible recognition that everybody can interact with.
Alejandra Caceres
Senior Vice President of Marketing
I’ve been recognized myself, and it felt wonderful—surprising, but also deeply motivating. I’ve also had the privilege of recognizing teams for delivering major projects, which brought departments together in a unified sense of achievement.
Kan Ni
Vice President, Airport Operations Control Center, Dubai Airports
Recognition fits into our strategies for turnover and helping us retain good caregivers… because everyone wants to know how they're performing. They want to know if they're doing a good job. And sometimes we forget to stop and say thank you. Recognition helps us do that easily and consistently.
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Mary Eaves
Senior VP of Operations (Assisted Living Division)
After COVID hit we had over 1800 employees go remote. Our HQ campus became a ghost town. We couldn't do the high touch thing anymore, but still wanted to engage our workforce. Because of the nature of remote work, we didn't even know which employees were where, and there was no way we could use our old system of bi-annual distribution. We had gotten so much positive feedback with our service anniversary program that we reached out to Awardco to see if they could do something to help us with our bonus program.
Jodi Gonzales
HR Manager
Our job was to solve the continuous problem of helping staff feel connected—to each other and to the organization.
Shandy Phelps
Family Community Engagement Supervisor
This integration to our Slack channel… makes it very easy and seamless. There’s this running log of all of these shout outs, which I think is really powerful.
Zach Makoutz
Sr. Manager, Category Sales Product
Employees look forward to seeing their monthly Safety All-Star points. Those conversations happen in lunchrooms, dressing rooms—it becomes part of our culture.
Roshan Varghese
Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety
I was really looking for a user-friendly, up-to-speed, and easy-to-use program that can expand in different ways, and I found it with Awardco.
Shaye McCoy
Manager, Global Total Rewards Experience
The ability to customize the platform and call it 'MyKudos' made it feel like a true extension of our brand and culture.
Pam Buyers
Head of Culture at PMG
The beauty of Awardco is that it empowers everybody to make sure good work doesn’t go unnoticed. When people see recognitions coming through, it’s meaningful for the person receiving it, but it also shows everyone else how important recognition is. That’s what Awardco allows us to do—make appreciation visible across the company.
Josh Olofson
Vice President of Employee Experience
If we retain a teacher, that’s 20 students we get to serve. Going from 45% turnover to 8% means we’ve kept 85–90 more staff. That’s an incredible impact on both our children and our budget.
Amber Lease
Human Resource Director
Thought Leadership & Resources
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