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Return on recognition
Why celebrate new hires?
A warm welcome sets the stage for continued success for every employee. Recognition during onboarding helps new hires feel valued, connected, and ready to contribute from day one.
Retention
69
%
of employees are more likely to stay if the company has a strong onboarding structure.
Productivity
50
%
more productivity for new hires if they feel welcomed and supported.
end-to-end flexibility
Kickstart engagement from day one
Give every employee a warm, personalized welcome—fully automated and without extra admin work.
Company-Wide visibility
Warm welcomes and first-day shoutouts
Showcase new hire recognitions on rotating screens, Slack, Teams, and more to build a sense of belonging from day one.
testimonials
What customers are saying
What we found most that sold us on Awardco over everyone else, not only was the platform very easy to use, but that partnership with Amazon is phenomenal.
Imran Merchant
Total Rewards Manager
We needed something to unify our recognition programs for all our different locations, and we found that and more with Awardco.
Storey O'Barr
Recognition and Communications Specialist
We do an annual engagement survey, and we do see a lot of comments from people saying they love to work here because of the people they work with. We get a lot of good comments about working with others.
Pam Johnson
VP of Human Resources
Our goal was to make it easy to recognize employees and make sure everyone had access to that recognition in the most simplistic format.
Brenda Neuhoff
Director of Total Rewards
Using Awardco has given us the confidence that we've partnered with someone that knows what they're doing. We're not only saving a lot of time, but we're building the confidence of our employees as we express our appreciation to all of them worldwide.
Annasuela Fritz
HR Projects and Recognition Manager
Awardco enables us to celebrate not just big wins, but the small moments that make a difference every day.
Pam Buyers
Head of Culture
Our job was to solve the continuous problem of helping staff feel connected—to each other and to the organization.
Shandy Phelps
Family Community Engagement Supervisor
The Awardco platform enables us to reach our global employee base (4,500 and growing) easily and effectively.
Tammy Godby
Senior Manager of Global Organizational Development
We'd help them get through if they're not computer savvy and help them get their logins created and get set up.
Michael Burgess
Assistant GM
When you have employees working hard from home juggling family responsibilities, and yet still being physically separate from their team, a simple birthday message and gift they get to pick out creates a meaningful touchpoint, and allows them to take a moment for themselves.
Rosie Scannell
Global HR
We fell in love with the Awardco platform from the start because it's so simple, and yet it also has so many customization options to add to it.
Marko Zecevic
Employee Experience Manager
Tying recognition to our values and integrating with Slack created real cultural stickiness.
Monica Gunderson
Talent Management Lead
With Awardco we now have more visibility into our incentive budgets than ever, and can be more judicious about our incentive spend.
Lacy Andersen
Project Manager
I was really looking for a user-friendly, up-to-speed, and easy-to-use program that can expand in different ways, and I found it with Awardco.
Shaye McCoy
Manager, Global Total Rewards Experience
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