HACKER Q&A
📣 axg11

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.

  👤 stevekemp Accepted Answer ✓
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.

👤 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.