Automated Employee Milestones

Make every milestone easier to celebrate

Create a more meaningful experiences without adding more manual work for your team. Awardco helps automate milestone moments while giving employees a recognition experience that feels personal and well timed.

 

Why Celebrate Your Employees

Feeling valued fuels culture and performance

Celebrating employees builds stronger culture, deeper connection, and lasting engagement across the organization.

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Personalization at Scale

Never miss a meaningful moment

Add automation to enhance programs so no milestone, service anniversary, or meaningful moment is missed—boosting belonging and building a culture of recognition.

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Automation

Hands-free and high impact

Eliminate manual work and ensure every milestone is celebrated on time, every time with integrated automations.

Scalable for Every Team

From small teams to international enterprises, Awardco supports every stage of growth no matter the size or structure.

Built-In Efficiency

Integrate with your HRIS, automate onboarding and anniversaries, and rest easy—every moment is covered.

Inclusive by Design

Every birthday, anniversary, and milestone gets the spotlight it deserves and ensures no one is left out.

Moments worth celebrating

Meaningful ways to celebrate your team

Employee Onboarding

Celebrate new hires with automated and custom recognition that welcomes, engages, and reinforces culture from day one.

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Birthdays

Make every employee's birthday count with automated recognitions and meaningful rewards that are personal and memorable.

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Holidays

Bring festive fun into any recognition strategy with personalized programs for all holidays big and small, with minimal manual effort.

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Service Awards

Never miss another milestone. Recognize tenured employees with automated, global delivery of meaningful service awards.

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Life Events

From weddings and new homes to furry friends and diplomas, easily recognize every personal milestone.

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MemoryBooks®

MemoryBooks enable teammates to contribute heartfelt notes and photos, creating a one-of-a-kind digital or printed celebration.

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testimonials

See what customers are saying

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Beyond birthdays and anniversaries, Awardco gives us a meaningful way to recognize our values, which is honestly my favorite part of the program. Every company has values and a mission statement, but they can be easy to forget in the day-to-day. Awardco helps keep our values top of mind by tying them directly to recognition.
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Shannon Martell
Employee Experience Specialist
Dubai Airports
 
 
Within AOCC, we’ve built peer nominations into the process. The more recognitions a team member receives, the more points they earn toward winning a High Flyer award. This has fostered real cohesion, inclusivity, and teamwork across the department.
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Kan Ni
Vice President, Airport Operations Control Center, Dubai Airports
Percepta
 
 
Our operational leaders really appreciate how easy it is to reward their teams through the Awardco platform, irrespective of global location. For the staff that are receiving recognition, being able to access and spend the points straight away enhances the perceived value of the reward.
Scott Collins
Executive Director
Kodiak
 
 
There's plenty of research that shows the compounding impact of how when other people can see recognition, it creates that snowball effect. And so it just makes people work better together. They feel more as part of the team.
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Zach Makoutz
Sr. Manager, Category Sales Product
Lockton
 
 
It’s incredibly accessible. You don’t have to be tech-savvy—you can use it on your phone, through Outlook, or even a Teams plugin. It meets people where they are.
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Mallory Pence
Marketing Manager
Dubai Airports
 
 
The High Flyer program has made a significant difference in how our teams perform and work together. One of my shifts has won the award twice this year, and you can see the motivation and pride reflected in their daily behaviors.
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Kan Ni
Vice President, Airport Operations Control Center, Dubai Airports
PMG
 
 
When employees feel seen and appreciated, they’re more engaged and engagement drives performance. Using Awardco helps leaders and managers recognize impact in real time and that momentum drives continued and lasting success.
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Monica Gunderson
Talent Management Lead
Greenfield Global
 
 
Feeling seen and feeling valued… That's one thing that keeps me going every day. We all try to strive for the best and try to help one another. We have a great management system here and everybody is seen and heard.
Aisha Ariyo
Export Logistics Coordinator
Lockton
 
 
A quiet employee might never self-promote, but Awardco gives us the visibility to see their impact. We’ve literally had leaders say, ‘I had no idea!’ when reviewing this data.
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Melissa York
SVP, Head of People & Culture
TaylorMade
 
 
When you have employees working hard from home juggling family responsibilities, and yet still being physically separate from their team, a simple birthday message and gift they get to pick out creates a meaningful touchpoint, and allows them to take a moment for themselves.
Rosie Scannell
Global HR
Southern Oregon Head Start
 
 
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.
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Amber Lease
Human Resource Director
Alera Group
 
 
Awardco is central to our strategy around helping people feel connected across the organization in the work that they do. Our strength is that we have diversity across all our offices. So collaboration may be the soul of a layer group, that tie that binds our unique cultures together. But we really want to celebrate and recognize the diversity across our offices, and that is our strength. Awardco helps us create that visible platform for everybody to see the good work and the unique ways that people are solving problems around the organization.
Kristie White
AVP, Change Strategy & Organization Development
McCormick & Company
 
 
The exciting part isn’t just that people love being recognized—it’s how eager they are to recognize their peers. That enthusiasm speaks to our culture. There’s a real appetite for recognition because it matters, because they care, and because they want others to feel appreciated.
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Sierra Capone
Director, Wellbeing & Employee Experience
Lockton
 
 
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.
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Selia Wood
AVP, Talent & Engagement
Utah Valley University
 
 
Previously, recognition was only known between the giver and receiver. Now I feel a lot more connected to colleagues. The My Circle email alerts have made a big difference in helping colleagues feel more connected across our giant campus.
Maddie Bagley
Appreciation Specialist, People & Culture

Customer stories

Customer success stories

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Using recognition to reduce attrition in retail
30
%
decrease in attrition after implementing Awardco
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Bringing Sunshine to Recognition
20
%
average drop in attrition risk after implementing Awardco
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Increasing engagement and buy-in for company culture
84
hours
of administrative time saved per year

Thought leadership & Resources

Industry trends, research, and more

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can automated milestones include points, physical awards, or non-monetary recognition?
 

Depending on the program, an automated milestone can include points, a physical or curated award, a nonmonetary recognition, or a combination of configured elements.

Points may allow employees to choose from a marketplace or a program-specific catalog. A separate catalog or award network can restrict certain milestone points to approved reward categories, such as physical goods, company merchandise, charitable donations, or another defined set of options.

The permitted reward formats, catalog restrictions, fulfillment method, and tax or payroll treatment vary by program and location. Organizations should validate those details before publishing a specific award promise.

Can organizations customize the message and employee experience?
 

Organizations can generally customize the recognition message and related employee experience for an automated milestone. This may include the sender, wording, branding, point value, visibility, notification, catalog, and whether colleagues or managers can contribute messages or memories.

For service anniversaries and other meaningful events, organizations may also choose to surface upcoming milestones, invite comments or photos, or share the recognition in an employee feed where supported.

Automation does not require every event to use the same generic message. Organizations should validate which experience elements can be customized for each program, population, and channel.

Can organizations choose which milestone years or events receive awards?
 

Yes, organizations can configure the milestone schedule and decide which events receive a monetary award, a nonmonetary recognition, a message, a memory-book experience, or another outcome.

For example, an organization may recognize every service anniversary with a message but reserve points or a larger reward for selected years. It may also configure different rules for birthdays, onboarding stages, locations, employee groups, or other populations.

The available schedule, eligibility settings, award types, and population rules depend on the enabled program and configuration.

How does Awardco know when an employee reaches a milestone?
 

Awardco uses approved employee and organizational data to identify when a configured event is approaching or has occurred. Depending on the integration, that data may come from an HRIS, file feed, API, or another supported source.

For service anniversaries, the relevant employee start or hire date is commonly used to determine the milestone. Other events may use information such as birth date, onboarding date, employment status, location, department, or other configured fields.

The accuracy and timing of an automated award depend on the source data, field mapping, update cadence, employee identity matching, and configured rules. Organizations should define which system is authoritative for each trigger field.

Which employee milestones can Awardco automate?
 

Depending on the enabled programs, organizations may be able to automate:

  • Service anniversaries and years-of-service awards
  • Birthdays
  • New-hire onboarding stages
  • Retirement or other life-event recognitions
  • Configured holidays, campaigns, or recurring employee events

Organizations can choose to automate one program or combine milestone automation with peer recognition, manager recognition, wellness, safety, incentive, or other programs. Not every event is available as a standard automated program, so custom use cases should be validated during implementation.

Make every milestone memorable

Easily celebrate every moment, big or small, that shapes employee experience.