The Service Awards add-on can automatically recognize employee employment anniversaries and onboarding milestones (ex 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, etc) with a pre-written wall post.
Here is an example of how service award recognitions appear on the wall:
Good to know
- Financial or perk rewards can be attached (if available): You configure the reward amount or select up to 3 perks for the recipient to choose from
- Service award recognition posting dates are calculated using the start date stored in employee profiles
- The service award recognition is posted to the wall at 11am in the recipient's time zone
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Managers are given 30 days' advance notice of upcoming service awards, and can be given the option to decline an upcoming award or pre-load a congratulatory message that will post below the recognition on the award date
Note
Once submitted, pre-loaded congratulatory messages cannot be edited
- Colleagues (same manager) can be notified about long service awards
- Service awards can be pinned to the top of the wall for up to 5 days
- Service awards can be printed for handing out at a ceremony or hung in a frame
- The service award will get posted to the wall and Workstars TV along with other recognitions
- Contractors can be prevented from receiving a financial reward with their service award
- Contractors cannot be prevented from receiving a perk reward with their service award
How to enable and adjust service award settings
- Login to your Administrator account
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Click Add-ons, select Service Awards
Note
If you do not see this, contact your account manager to enable Service Awards
- Click Get Started
- Service Awards - Select Enabled
- Monetary Rewards - Select Yes if you use financial rewards and want to attach them to service awards
- Perk Rewards - Select Yes if you use perks and want to attach them to service awards
- Notify Colleagues - Enable will email colleagues on the award date
- Pin to Wall - Enable will pin the post to the top of the wall for 5 days
- Line Manager Decline -Enable will give line manager 30 days advance notice of award and allow them to decline it
- Printed Certificate - Enable will allow the line manager to print a paper certificate
- Contractor Financial Service Award - Enable will allow contractors to receive financial reward (if available) with their service award
- Click Update Settings to save your changes
Note
Service award settings apply to all service awards you create
How to create a service award
Create a separate service award for each work anniversary/milestone you want to recognize:
- Login to your Administrator account
- Click Add-ons, select Service Awards
- Click the Settings cogwheel
- In the left-nav menu, click Manage Awards
- Click Add Service Award
- Start Date - Date you want to begin recognizing employees for this milestone (for new programs this is usually the Launch date)
- End Date - Leave blank (only used if/when you want the particular service award to stop recognizing on a set date - this is the only way to end a service award)
- Type - Select Long Service (ex 1 year) or Onboarding (ex 1 week)
- Years/Weeks - Select the milestone year or week you are recognizing
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Message - Write your own message -or- click Choose Template and select a pre-written message from the list, then click Select Message
Note
- If writing your own message, you must also write your own messages for each language translation that your employees use
- If using a pre-written message template, it will automatically display translated on the Wall
- All Badge titles are automatically translated
- Badge - Click Select Badge, select a badge from the list, then click Select Badge Title
- Select a Badge Title from the list, then click Save Badge
- Select Reward for each country - Select None, Monetary Reward (if available), or Perk Reward (if available); repeat for every country you have configured
- Click Add Service Award
- Repeat for each anniversary/milestone you want to recognize
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