Employee Appreciation Programs
We help organizations attract and retain great people by making work rewarding through market-leading employee appreciation programs. Deliver a sustainable boost to your employee engagement strategy and book a demonstration today!
Employee appreciation programs with integrated rewards
The employee appreciation program you have been searching for actually exists. What a relief!
How it works
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Select a recognition model
You will be pleasantly surprised that there is no need to compromise. Workstars has dozens of recognition models that work for any business, in any industry, in any country. However even the perfect program can become dated as strategies and philosophies change. This is why our clients sleep well at night, they simply hit the switch and move from one model to another at any time.
It needs to look great of course
Employees want technology that hits the spot. So let’s give it to them. Workstars have invested in the UX and UI but we leave you to add the finishing touches. Our shiny new branding suite ensures every program identity looks the bee’s knees across PC, mobile and tablet. Including custom headers, emails, and images, your creatives even get to do some coloring in!
Launch and adopt
The No1 objective for today’s employee recognition strategies is clear, employee adoption. As leaders begin to create compelling employee experiences, that both attract and retain great people. HR need to rely on social recognition software that employees love, and want to use. At Workstars we use employee adoption as a metric for our own success.
Integrate
Squeeze recognition into your conversation. Workstars offer integrations with all your favorite tools making roll out and activity easier, faster and more effective. Enabling employees to both see and give recognition without even breaking sweat.
Making it social
Creating a forum that encourages every employee to make their workplace more rewarding. It sounds like a good idea to us. Social recognition is a versatile and interactive recognition feed that brings employee recognition to life. Removing hierarchies and barriers to recognition whilst alerting managers and leadership to all the good stuff they often miss.
Connecting teamwork
Who does not get excited about a great team outcome, or a large cross-functional project that rocked? The problem in the world of employee recognition has always been how to collect and connect all the players, hierarchies and reward budgets into one simple process that works. With Workstars, it’s easy.
Engaging managers
Are some managers really that bad at employee recognition? Unfortunately, this is often the case. At Workstars, we have designed a manager dashboard with all the information needed to get managers excited about giving recognition and to ensure its at the heart of the employee engagement conversation.
Shared Values
Corporate values in three words: dust, posters, gathering. OK, so that was many decades ago, but a change was long overdue. Today’s recognition strategies are aligned with corporate values, enabling organizations to celebrate and embed their values through the actions and success of each employee.
Awards
You may think social recognition has brought the curtain down on some of the recognition initiatives of the past? But that’s not the case. In fact, company awards are thriving in social formats. Award programs, whether they’re service-based, employee of the quarter, monthly polls or new starter onboarding have all had a new lease of life with Workstars.
Rewards
In the digital age, reward is simple. Workstars provide electronic voucher codes and pre-paid cards which are all handled electronically and are delivered quickly, anywhere in the world. However, you may choose to manage your own reward catalog, outsource to another provider or manage rewards internally through payroll. We really don’t mind.
Perks
A growing number of companies are looking at time and activities as alternative methods to complement or even replace financial recognition, putting the emphasis on managers to really get to know and motivate their employees. In response, Workstars have created pre-built catalogs of time and activity rewards that employees love.
Analysis, it’s all there
You should be analyzing data, not wasting your time compiling it. At Workstars, we have done all the hard work for you, whether that’s tax reports, employee engagement, manager performance or various monthly trends. It’s quick, insightful and up to date.
Go global
“Can I recognize a German colleague working in Switzerland from my US budget?” Yes. “Great, can their manager approve it first and can it also be adjusted for cost of living?” No problem. “Wow! And can they use the platform in German, but redeem their reward in Swiss Francs?” Absolutely. “Amazing, now you’re just showing off!”Features
Configure your perfect employee appreciation program:
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Recognize
An industry leading peer to peer recognition system that reduces the sense hierarchy and allows your employees to enjoy giving recognition, not just receiving it.
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Reward
Gain access to our online rewards and pre-paid cards or create your own catolog of incentives and perks - all at a local or global scale.
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Global
Quickly add languages, countries, currencies and cost of living adjustments without set-up charges or incurring additional resource overhead.
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Integrate
Remove all obstacles by integrating with your favorite workflows. Post your recognitions to Slack, Workplace, Yammer, MS Teams and Chatter.
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Customize
A smart recognition engine ensures HR teams of every size get their perfect employee recognition program in a matter of minutes.
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Budgets
From employee-awarded micro-bonuses to hierarchy-based approvals, our advanced budget tools are easily aligned with your recognition strategy.
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Insights
Gain invaluable insights into your workforce including undercover achievers, engagement trends and corporate value effectiveness with a range of easy to use analytics dashboards.
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Reports
From annual tax reports for finance or daily automated data exceptions for IT, the chances are we have all the reports you need ready to go.
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Secure
Security is a critical part of our business. If your due diligence focuses on the storage of your data, GDPR or 3rd party penetration tests, we have the answers.
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Scalable
From successful start-ups to global enterprise companies, our people and technology know how to support your needs.
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Mobile
Say goodbye to different app functionality, constant updates and incompatible devices. Our fully responsive solution is always ready when your people are on the go.
Entry
All the features to celebrate success and reward the best
Everything you need to get started
- Engaging 360-degree recognition
- Mobile-optimized site
- Employee, manager, leader and central analytics
- Effortless & flexible rewards
- Service, onboarding and company awards
- Full client services support
Pro
For larger companies that require a higher level of integration and security
All the Entry level features plus
- Business hierarchy replication
- Social integrations
- Single sign on with SAML
- Open API's for data automation
Global
Make use of our global features to create international fluency
All the Pro level features plus
- Multi-language
- Multi-currency
- Cost of living adjustments
Features
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Complete suite of recognition formats across social, peer to peer, manager, team and central
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Leading Social functionality including congratulations, recognize again, promote, profiles
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Customized values, images, theme, branding and communications
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UI & UX to enjoy and admire, bringing your employee experience to life
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Four levels of reporting from manager dashboards to director and HR analytics
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Two factor administrator access authentication for primary and secondary administrators
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Self-managed administration platform
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Cloud based hosting meeting all security, penetration testing and accessibility expectations
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Gift internal reward, activities & time off through Manager Perks
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Automated service awards with badges and certificates
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Onboard your employees with automated recognitions from a week into their tenure
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Reward services team providing fully ticketed employee support
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Configurable voucher, code and card catalogs
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Hierarchy upload to automate reporting, reward sign off and communications
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Enhanced recognition configurations
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Expense recognition for full reward flexibility and consolidation of spend
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A streamlined employee experience with Single Sign On (SSO)
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Full API suite for automation and workflow integrations
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Real-time cost center tracking
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Integration suite including Yammer, Chatter and Slack
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Multi-Country
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Multi-Language
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Pre-Paid Digital MasterCard/Visa
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Workstars has given Onyx employees a fun and interactive platform to celebrate our colleagues’ success, and that has been invaluable to our work culture. Implementation could not have gone any smoother. The support team is always timely, friendly and helpful. Workstars is a great tool for the HR professional’s arsenal.
Becky Ospina , Vice President, Human Resources