Recognize
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Fantastic Employee Recognition Software for Microsoft 365 and Remote Teams
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Features
54 features across 21 categories
AI(1)
AI-generated summaries of employee recognition and performance to support performance reviews
Analytics(1)
Advanced People Analytics Dashboard to make data-driven decisions, discover top employees across company values and track performance over time
Automation(3)
Automatically recognize and reward employees for any year of service or their birthday
Automated manager reminders for recognition and engagement activities
Automated work anniversary notifications to recognize employee tenure
Communication(2)
Engage employees with recognition notifications via text message, email, push notification, or turned off entirely
SMS text message announcements to individuals, groups, or the whole company
Community(1)
Social hub of peer-to-peer recognition for employee engagement
Customization(2)
Over 150+ configurations of the employee engagement platform from peer recognition to anniversaries
Custom CSS stylesheet for complete control over application visibility and appearance, customizable email with logo and colors
Display(1)
Create all-for-one mentality by displaying recognitions and anniversaries on TV for the entire company or specific groups
Gamification(3)
Customizable badges to promote company values and core competencies with systematic promotion and reporting from recognition to performance review
Showcase where current users rank as individuals and contributors to groups to improve engagement, especially with incentives program
Robust controls, points, and gamification features for employee recognition programs
Incentives(2)
Managers issue redeemable currency to staff based on specific activities, tasks, or accomplishments
Analyze and set up an easy budget and points system for recognition rewards
Integration(7)
Announcements posted to MS Teams with live recognition viewing and sending
Integrated with Outlook to turn emails into recognition or redeem points for gift cards
Permissions and reporting using synced HRIS data with advanced permission syncing capabilities
Integrated with SharePoint as side panel or full panel inside SharePoint instances
Integrated with Slack for recognition announcements and engagement
Dynamically add and remove employees based on data automatically uploaded from Azure AD, Workday, or sFTP
Integrated with Viva Engage for social employee engagement
Localization(1)
Features and support for Canada, European companies with GDPR compliance, UK, Arabic-speaking countries, Australia, and Ireland with localization and region-specific rewards
Management(1)
Tools to support managers in fostering a positive and productive workplace
Mobile(1)
Robust mobile apps for Android and iPhone to celebrate wins wherever work happens
Privacy(1)
Admins can change privacy at company level and employees can change individual privacy settings
Recognition(10)
Automatically generate customizable award certificates that companies or managers can print, especially meaningful for frontline workers
Create branded employee recognition experiences with customizable badges aligned to company values
Vote for who deserves to be employee of the month, quarter, or year
Employee recognition features for employees without work email or regular email use, working in medical, security, construction, and energy sectors
Track employee goals, nominations, awards, and achievements within the platform
Showcase top employees across location, badge, and time period to promote and recognize top staff
Multi-level recognition with enterprise capabilities for peer, manager, and leadership level
Public recognition shout outs for employee achievements
Peer-to-peer employee recognition platform to highlight and discover staff's greatest work showcasing company values
Recognize teams so everyone is reminded why they are needed, with group appreciation and team syncing with Microsoft 365
Reporting(1)
Comprehensive reporting on recognition activities and engagement metrics
Rewards(7)
Official Amazon Partnership providing concerts, comedy, and theater in dozens of countries
Add custom rewards like PTO or company-specific benefits
Provide popular gift cards from Recognize or offer custom rewards such as day off
Thousands of gift cards available in 80+ countries for global employee recognition
Access to global rewards including concerts, Airbnb, Amazon, Starbucks, comedy, swag, and gift cards
Flexible international currency points system for redemption of rewards with configurable monetary value
Swag partnerships with providers like Axomo for employee merchandise rewards
Security(3)
Enterprise-level security with ISO-27001 certification
Login with telephone, email, or single sign on for flexible authentication
Enterprise Single Sign On ensures ease of use combined with security, available in Okta, Azure, and AWS
Support(4)
Monthly webinars for ongoing education and training
Regular newsletter for company culture best practices
Ongoing training for better hybrid company culture
Expert onboarding team works from day one to build a program that fits company culture
Surveys(1)
Listen to the pulse of company culture with an easy to use employee engagement survey based on eNPS
Workflow(1)
Approval process for recognition before it goes live
Pricing
Start-Up
- ✓Social Employee Recognition
- ✓Gift Card Rewards
- ✓Microsoft Teams
- ✓Outlook, Viva Engage, Sharepoint, Azure
- ✓Single Sign On SAML 2.0
- ✓Configurable Recognition Badges
- ✓Points & Reporting
- ✓People Analytics
- ✓Custom Company-Fulfilled Rewards
- ✓Recognition Privacy
- ✓User Sync with your HRIS
- ✓User Management
- ✓Social Components
- ✓Mobile Android + iOS
- ✓Team management with reporting
- ✓User profiles
- ✓Microsoft Weekly Sync
- ✓Work Anniversaries + Birthday Celebration
Mid-Market
Popular- ✓All Start-Up features
- ✓Point-Based Budgeting
- ✓Amazon + Swag Rewards
- ✓Direct Report Manager Program
- ✓Nominations
- ✓Challenges
- ✓Hall of Fame
- ✓Recognition Delegation
- ✓Approval Process for Recognition
- ✓Color & Logo Theming for Web App
- ✓Manager Permission Syncing
- ✓sFTP Sync Weekly
- ✓Announcements
Enterprise
- ✓All Mid-Market features
- ✓Live Event Tickets (Sporting Events, Concerts)
- ✓Survey System
- ✓Company Admin Permission Segmentation
- ✓Advanced User Permission Syncing
- ✓Multi-Currency Rewards
- ✓Individual Reward Catalog Funding
- ✓Permission Syncing
- ✓User Sync Nightly
- ✓Advanced Customizations
- ✓Color & Logo for Mobile + Emails
- ✓Child Sub Companies
- ✓Additional Custom sFTP Import Fields
- ✓Frontline Worker Package + SMS
- ✓AI Generated Reporting
- ✓Custom Questions Per Nomination or Recognition Badge
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