“Good job” says nothing
Recognition without a fact is a formality. “Thanks for covering Thursday's close” is remembered.
Recognition and challenges
A thank-you with a concrete fact. A small habit the team ticks off every day. A voluntary challenge with a shared goal. Points are exchanged for rewards set by the company. Nobody competes with anyone.
Thanks for staying for Thursday's close when the label printer went down.
The problem
Everyone agrees we should recognise more. Then Thursday comes and there's nowhere and no way to do it.
Recognition without a fact is a formality. “Thanks for covering Thursday's close” is remembered.
When euros are involved, comparison, complaints and calculation appear. And it stops being recognition.
A step challenge imposed from above lasts a week. A voluntary one with a team goal lasts as long as the team wants.
How it works
Thank-yous
Anyone can thank anyone. Pick the tag (effort, help, collaboration, care, idea), write the fact in one line and send it. The person receives it in their space. Anyone who wants to can make it visible to their team.
Thanks for staying for Thursday's close when the label printer went down.
Habits and challenges
A habit is one tick a day: an active break, leaving on time, drinking water. A challenge is a shared goal with a date: two hundred breaks across the team before the 15th. Everyone's count adds up; there's no podium.
Points are not money. They are redeemed for whatever the company decides.
Rewards
Each gesture earns points according to the company's settings. They're redeemed for rewards the company sets: an afternoon off, breakfast for the team, a parking space for a month. Never money. HR sees redemptions to hand them out; it doesn't see who thanked whom.
How it fits with benefitsPoints are not money. They are redeemed for whatever the company decides.
Who sees what
The person
The manager
HR
Privacy rule
Recognition works when it's sincere, not when it's measured. That's why there are no rankings of people and redemption doesn't become a record someone could use in an appraisal.
Works with
No feature works alone. They all follow the same privacy rule.
No. They're redeemed for rewards the company decides and hands out: time, breakfasts, parking, whatever makes sense at your site.
No. There are badges for taking part and consistency levels, but no ranking between people. That's deliberate.
They have no access to the detail. They see how many thank-yous circulate in their team in total, not who gave or received them.
Voluntary ones with a team goal and a short date: active breaks, leaving on time, staying hydrated. What doesn't work is anything mandatory or anything that compares people.
HR, from settings. There are sensible defaults and an empty rewards catalogue for you to add your own.
Start today
An afternoon off, a team breakfast and something from your site. People do the rest.
€3 per employee per month. No lock-in. No card to start.