Awardco

What do you like best?

It is an easy interface to navigate and offers multiple ways to honor individuals and groups based on our organizational values.

What do you dislike?

I have not found anything that I dislike about it at this time. I do wish some additional brands are included in the ecards section such as JCrew but that is very minor overall. I think that some people are not inclined to honor people in this way and have to login to the platform separately, being intentional about incorporating giving out awards into their process. If there was a way to connect with and remind people to give points to others and to note how many points they do have at different levels of their work, that would be good to raise awareness. I am someone who wants to give out a ton of points and I know that I am limited because I am not yet a manager so that feels a little bit frustrating since I cannot just freely honor people with points. It is nice that I can freely honor people without points -- at least that public acknowledgement is better than not at all.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Use your points up each month to maximize the power of the service.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Connectedness with colleagues, especially now during COVID, can be partly achieved through AwardCo, honoring everyone's work and understanding all of the work that everyone is doing despite us not being in the office together. I also love that I have been rewarded for work I have done and can take advantage of those points at places that I enjoy shopping. I think this also creates a space for everyone to reflect on work done by others -- we do not always take time to pause and remember the impact that we or others have made. We are helping staff remain engaged and hopefully promoting continued employment (retention tool).