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Ask HN: Do you use tools/software to recognise your employees?

4 points by axg11 ↗ HN
Do you use software to recognise employee achievements and milestones? If so, do you find that it helps with morale/retention?

I’m working on a platform that can help issue “awards” for achievements and track them. I won’t share the landing page here as I don’t want to self-promote. I’m looking for feedback on tools that HN’ers already use.

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warning26
Possibly not exactly what you're after, but at my company we sometimes use GroupGreeting to recognize company anniversaries, birthdays, etc.

It's not as nice as a physical card, but it's still kind of fun in its own way.

stevekemp
The company I'm with now uses something called 15five.com, every two weeks we have to "checkin" which involves answering a set of boiler-plate questions:

* How do you feel? (1-5)

* What are you struggling with?

etc. One of the (required) inputs is a space where you enter a colleague's name to publicly praise them.

As praising somebody is mandatory it feels a bit meaningless, but still "Thanks to @BobSmith for being great to work with" probably makes Bob feel a bit happier for a while when this gets highlighted to them.

axg11
Any strategies for how to make the praise more meaningful? Is it more meaningful if it comes directly from leadership?
stevekemp
I think the fact that you must "praise" a colleague once every two weeks makes the whole thing pointless and fake.

Other people might disagree.

I like to praise people directly, when they've done something clever, good, or difficult. I'm happy to say to higher-ups "[My colleage] David did an awesome job on this recent project". But writing that for the whole company to see just seems .. weird.