WorkStride is a leading provider of employee recognition and engagement programs for the global enterprise - including Spot Reward, Social Recognition, Service Awards, and more.
WorkStride provides a full suite of reward technology, service, and support. Our focus on expert service and performance results helps our clients gain more than a platform. They gain a team.
Employee Recognition Programs
Employee Recognition and Engagement Programs for World-Leading Enterprises.
Employee Recognition Programs, Employee Engagement, Service Awards, Social Recognition.
For more than two decades, WorkStride has delivered global enterprise companies with employee recognition programs that are tailor-fit to meet even the most complex needs. Our solutions blend together a winning combination of flexible technology, vertical specialization, industry expertise, and top-tier support to deliver an unforgettable rewards experience that you and your culture deserve.
For more than two decades, WorkStride has delivered global enterprise companies with employee recognition programs that are tailor-fit to meet even the most complex needs. Our solutions blend together a winning combination of flexible technology, vertical specialization, industry expertise, and top-tier support to deliver an unforgettable rewards experience that you and your culture deserve.
Key Pillars of Recognition Program Success
Site Experience
Each program involves an intuitive and responsive site design for participants that includes a company-branded experience.
Custom Award Types
Recognition programs can be configured to desired awards, values and activities, with custom branding, award title, and award descriptions, for a truly personal experience.
Memorable Award Presentation
Users receive program awards through your choice of virtual or physical mediums. Rewards can include gift cards, merchandise, branded item, symbolic awards, Visas, and more.
Program Administration
Gain control over your program and its complexity with technology and support that enables seamless management over data, audience, awards, workflows, reporting, and more.
Automation and Communication
Automate the awards in the program like for birthdays and occasions. Run automated notifications for key program activities and even custom message audience groups through the program.
Insights & Reporting
Detailed reporting is available for participants and administrators to keep track of awards issued to recipients, in addition to other key program performance indicators and activities.
Key Program Types
Service Awards and Milestones
Recognize key accomplishments like Birthdays, Years of Service, and other key milestones. Relieve the manual burden of milestone award administration with a custom program design implemented into your program. Choose from custom award types to include for each milestone, such as symbolic items, gift card choice, merchandise, or other motivating choices.
Bulk and Spot Recognition
Gain control over monetary rewards within your organization with a tailored bulk or spot program. Administrators can issue bulk awards across the company and groups for achievements and occasions. Choose to provide budget to managers and or peers to issue program points to others for key achievements.
Social Recognition
Generate engagement and interaction within your organization with a non-monetary social recognition experience. Include badges, ecards, and custom award types that peers can issue to other peers. Choose to include a centralized social stream to showcase and reinforce positive workplace vibes, which users can like, comment, and follow.
With The Right Solutions Provider, Anything is Possible
Foster a Rewarding Culture
Gallup reports that only about 30 percent of the overall workforce feels engaged at work. Drive engagement and employee experience by promoting a culture of rewards and recognition with your monetary employee recognition programs. Foster spot rewards, bulk company awards, social recognition and peer-peer rewards, service awards & milestones, and more employee engagement.
Spot Awards that Align to Core Values and Achievements
Provide employees with exciting and custom reward interactions within your employee recognition program. Awards can reinforce the behaviors most valued at your organization. Spot awards are sent by budget holders through an intuitive reward workflow to choose award type and value, and include customized messages and senders.
Social Recognition that Inspires Interactions and Engagement Across Teams
Blend in powerful non-monetary awards into your employee recognition programs to foster a strong culture of social interaction. When peers acknowledge the achievements of other peers, this bolsters employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity. Badges representing company values, ecards, and other social currency promotes organic daily recognitions within an overall culture. You can choose to include a central social stream of activities to further stimulate good engagement and organizational connections.
Service Awards and Milestone Recognition That Create Strong Bonds with Employees
Service Awards are not a one-size-fits-all solution. Each company has its own unique mix of how they wish to acknowledge milestones most effectively within employee recognition programs. Craft personal award messaging, choose accompanying tangible awards and presentation kits, and more. We work with you on giving life to a custom reward design. Choose who gets recognized, when, and how. Enjoy flexibility of tiers, thousands of gift items, hundreds of gift cards, custom certificate choice, custom packaging and messaging, and more.
Engagement and Program Gamification that Encourages Continued Program Use
Make awards an impactful experience in your employee recognition program. Receiving a new award is an exciting and engaging experience, with seamless ability to access the award, it’s custom messaging, certificates or ecards, and any attached reward redemption.
Retention Solutions that Help Reduce Churn Risk
Our solutions for retention management provide HR teams with a unique ability to identify and react to top grade internal talent at risk for churn. The system enables nomination collection of key talent, custom approval processes, as well as workflows to company retention planning — all to help keep your great team members in house.
Administrative Capabilities that Relieve Burden of Program Management
Administrators can leave the legwork to the program itself, which is designed to issue awards to service tiers based on your desired program design. Automated anniversary calendars, award issuance, and reward fulfillment take on the heavy lifting of program logistics while offering full control and transparency to administrators.
Industry-Leading Client Experience
Going Global to Bond Teams with Recognition at BAE Systems
BAE is one of the leading aerospace and defense organizations with more than 30,000 global employees. The company and its leaders were in need of a full-scale recognition program that strategically blends both monetary and non-monetary rewards for their large and diverse participant base.
An internal employee survey made it clear that BAE Systems had outgrown their current in-house recognition program, so a specialized solutions expert was needed to accommodate their multiple complexities. WorkStride and BAE came together to create a strategy, design, and build an award-winning global recognition program: BAE IMPACT.
The program required various types of rewards set at different hierarchies and permissions, across several thousand online and offline employees, all supported in a friendly user and branded environment. The solution fostered complex logic on the back end, but an easy-to-use, compelling program on the front end.
The BAE IMPACT program is now widely known as one of the leading global enterprise recognition programs. It facilitates thousands of interactions each day, and has been recognized as a world-leading program by major industry associations. Recognition Professionals International (RPI), for instance, recognized BAE IMPACT for the standards of Recognition Strategy, Communication Plan, and Flexibility and Change. Program achievements include:
332.7% in non-monetary rewards sent | 90% of active employee participants | 45k+ recognitions sent per year | Winner of Recognition Professionals International (RPI) Best Practice Award |
Spreading “CHeeRS” to Drive Engagement at Cone Health
Cone Health, a leading healthcare system with more than 13,000 employees, had a key goal: encouraging engagement on a deeper and individual level for specific actions that exemplify organizational values and commitments. Another goal for the program was bringing more visibility to important events such as staff birthdays, anniversaries, and other company happenings. WorkStride’s solution? the cone Health CHeeRS program.
The new CHeeRS program gained momentum powered by peer-peer rewards, service and milestone recognition, company event communication, administrative control, and flexibility. This resulted in daily recognitions and engagement that exceeded expectations and results. Program achievements include:
195,00 total recognitions sent |
70%+ of all total participants have received a recognition | 79% to 88% change in employee retention rate |
Winner of Recognition Professionals International awards in two recognition categories: Program Flexibility and Recognition Events. |
