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How To Build A Culture Of Social Recognition

Understanding social recognition

Everybody seems to be talking about Social Recognition. But what is it really? Is social recognition simply an act of giving recognition on a social platform, or is it deeper and more nuanced than that? Let’s take a closer look at the basics of social recognition.

Embrace true social recognition

Social recognition isn’t just about giving and receiving appreciation. In fact it is a three part process that is interconnected.

1. Giving recognition.

2. Receiving recognition.

3. Observing and participating in the act of recognition.

When employees participate in all three aspects of recognition, the outcomes are clear.

  • 591% increase in employees who are engaged
  • 536% increase in employees who are seen to be innovating.

Social recognition is relevant to your business

There is a paradigm shift happening at workplaces around the world. With an increasingly connected and mobile workforce, companies are now more globally connected than ever before. Add to this the impact of a multi-generational workforce and the far reaching impact of mobile technology. This results in the need for innovative approaches to engaging with the workforce.

An intuitive, easy-to-use platform, like Thanks, is a

powerful tool to drive engagement at the workplace and is

a win-win for the employee and the organization.

Why Thanks?

Our workplace-culture professionals are here to help you understand the platform. We’ll guide you through a quick dive into the basics of setting up your recognition program before setting you on the path to configuring your very own fast, easy, and simple recognition program.

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Product Features

Thanks is a cloud-based, social recognition platform that makes it fast, easy, and simple for companies to set up a world-class recognition program, while empowering employees to appreciate each other and their daily successes as part of a normal workflow.

Social recognition platform

Letting others in the organization know about the great work a colleague has done boosts morale and improves camaraderie. Thanks lets you broadcast appreciation onto an organizational-wide social feed so that others can see and join in on the conversation too. Note: This is a secure, organization specific feed that only employees of the company can see.

Cloud based

Thanks is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. This essentially means that we host our technology platform on secure servers and make it available for access to you over the internet. You do not have to setup anything on your computing infrastructure and your IT department does not have to spend time and resources managing Thanks. Plus, the platform is accessible to your teams anywhere in the world, anytime, on any device.

Flow of everyday work

Like most companies, you probably have a set of popular work tools where people go to for the usual collaboration and information update — be it email, messaging or collaboration platforms. Thanks integrates with industry leading work-tools like Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Workplace out of the box. Your employees can now appreciate colleagues from within the tools they spend most time on, instead of having to switch platforms.

Fast. Easy. Simple.

Thanks is amazingly simple to configure, deploy, and maintain. Our technology takes all the complexity out of managing workflow, tracking utilization, and updating dashboards so you can spend time on what really matters to you. The easy-to-use interface is intuitive and similar to most social platforms. Just give your employees access and watch the appreciations pour in. Let one of our workplace-culture professionals give you a tour of Thanks.

Thanks is a employee recognition services software platform owned by O.C. Tanner. Research presented on this site is backed by the O.C. Tanner Institute which publishes findings worldwide in the following publications: