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Ask HN: Do you use tools/software to recognise your employees?
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.
- warning26 4y agoPossibly 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 4y agoThe 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 4y agoAny strategies for how to make the praise more meaningful? Is it more meaningful if it comes directly from leadership?
- stevekemp 4y agoI 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.