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.
Trusted by 3,000+ organizations worldwide
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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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Using Awardco, we received 122 nominations for 80 unique nominees in just 10 days. This is the most internal nominations we’ve ever gotten, and we've had so much positive feedback from our coworkers on the user experience!
Rebecca Wolff
Media Relations
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Since implementing Awardco, we’ve saved at least 30 hours a month that used to be spent manually tracking, purchasing, and mailing gifts. Now it’s all automated—and more empowering for our associates.
Selia Wood
AVP, Talent & Engagement
When I joined Lockton, we didn’t have a recognition platform. It was the first thing I pushed for—because I’ve seen firsthand how important it is. People want to feel seen and validated.
Selia Wood
AVP, Talent & Engagement
Awardco significantly enhances employee engagement and helps our employees feel valued and appreciated, leading to higher morale. Offering customizable recognition programs for Cinemark and a wide range of awards helps align with our employees' interests and ensures that all employees, from theatre staff to management, feel valued and appreciated.
Ann O'Keefe
Director of Benefits
Awardco offers such a clean design, way ahead of its competitors, along with excellent offerings, great analytics, and wonderful customer service.
Anonymous
Designer
[Awardco] pulls everybody together… you get to see what everyone’s doing, even across different campuses.
Brenda Betteridge
Business Development Manager
As we’ve scaled, we’ve lost the day-to-day visibility into our people. Awardco fills that gap. Peer recognition surfaces contributions that would otherwise go unnoticed—especially from introverts or quiet top performers.
Melissa York
SVP, Head of People & Culture
We do a lot of remote work activities where you can win something. We do a lot of these contests, and I used to go to Amazon and send a $25 gift card to the winners, but now I do it through Awardco. It's in the system, trackable, and much more streamlined.
Amberlee Taylor
Sr. Communications Specialist
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Recognition using the High Flyer platform has given us greater flexibility and alignment with our objectives. It allows us to acknowledge teams and individuals in ways that connect directly to our successes and values.
Kan Ni
Vice President, Airport Operations Control Center, Dubai Airports
The emphasis that Kodiak puts on people and employees first is really unique. We're always looking for opportunities to acknowledge the important and special and above and beyond work that our coworkers are doing.
Cassidy Barsdoff
Director, Project Management Office
People are busy. It's hard. We have our highest volumes we've ever had with patients. But when people take the time to celebrate one another, then we can really see that hope and that goodness beyond that. And so I really think that why we're successful is because our team cares about one another, and they take the time to recognize one another.
Madeline Quinn
Employee Experience Manager
What we found most that sold us on Awardco over everyone else, not only was the platform very easy to use, but that partnership with Amazon is phenomenal.
Imran Merchant
Total Rewards Manager
From a reporting standpoint, Awardco excels by allowing users to access desired reports quickly through easily accessible links, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple pages as was the case with previous platforms. The platform has garnered significant positive feedback for its user-friendly nature and seamless navigation.
Kerie Rogers
HR Operations Leader
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)
Positive recognition is contagious, and myKudos [Awardco] serves as an incredible platform to uplift others, celebrate their wins, and inspire everyone to give their best to PMG and our clients.
Melodie Cottingham
Convergent Video/Audio Director
Thought Leadership & Resources
Employee celebration resources
