Recognize Awards
The Recognize Awards celebrate the achievements of organizations that have seen incredible success with rewards and recognition—and the impact it’s had on their employees.
Category 1
Best change management
NIBCO has always prioritized recognition, but they needed a unified, company-wide strategy that reached all 3,000 of their offline and desk-based employees across four countries.
With Awardco, they've built a strategy of employee engagement, morale, and wellness. This is reinforced by powerful, highly visible appreciation that reaches each employee, regardless of where they work. And the results speak for themselves:
- 8% reduction in turnover since launching Awardco
- $5.79 million savings in turnover-related expenses
- 80% recognition received rate

Category 2
Best recognition strategy
Greenfield Global knew they needed to do something special to engage and support their global workforce, so they used Awardco to build the Star program. This gives each employee a monthly budget of points they can use to recognize and reward their peers, driving excitement and appreciation from the ground up.
Because 60% of their workforce is not connected, this peer-driven approach ensures recognition reaches everyone, whether they sit in front of a desk or not. With Awardco's help, Greenfield Global has achieved:
- 80% program utilization rate
- 35% increase in Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) in two years
- 11.6 recognitions per user
Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention
Category 3
Best global strategy
Hertz teamed up with Awardco to create a purpose-built, intuitive recognition strategy designed to spread appreciation to their global workforce of over 18,000 employees—80% of which are deskless. By making recognition more immediate, more personal, and more offline-friendly, Hertz is able to celebrate the good work of each employee and reinforce those positive behaviors.
Hertz has built 10 custom programs to ensure no effort goes unnoticed, and the results speak for themselves: this year, Hertz saw a 7.6% YoY increase in Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS).
Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention
Category 4
Best employee engagement
4Refuel developed a robust, multi-program strategy designed to engage both their office teams and the 75% of their workforce in the field, ensuring critical client operations stay fueled. Central to this strategy are key safety programs that reward and reinforce safe behaviors. This has resulted in a 42% reduction in high-risk actions and contributed to an outstanding 93% overall engagement score. Impressively, 84% of employees log in each month to give or receive recognition.
The opportunity to earn points and be recognized hasn't just bumped platform usage, it's led to company-wide benefits to be proud of:
- 15% reduction in high-risk behaviors in 2024 and a 42% reduction since 2022
- 94% participation in seasonal safety campaigns
- 32% increase in Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)
- 24% decrease in YoY turnover
- 94% engagement in seasonal safety programs
Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention
Category 5
Best offline program
When McCormick & Company launched “Bravo” on Awardco, they knew it would take time to extend recognition across their global workforce of 14,000 employees, particularly the 70% who are frontline staff with limited connectivity.
They set an ambitious adoption goal of 45% by the third month. Thanks to a highly strategic and intentional rollout, which included an initial focus on non-monetary recognition, the team exceeded this target, achieving 50% adoption within the first six weeks. Within eight months, nearly everyone in the company had been recognized.
This success stands as a testament to McCormick & Company’s commitment to building an accessible, intrinsic culture of appreciation that reaches everyone, from the corporate office to the manufacturing floor. The launch generated 6,500 “just because” shout-outs in a single quarter, and the program received an initial ease-of-use rating of 4.2 out of 5. Not only are employees enthusiastic to take part, but HR now saves 1,200 hours each year through automation, eliminating manual work and unnecessary hassle.
Honorable Mention

