Awardco, the leader in employee recognition and rewards technology, has unveiled Awardco Engage™, a new employee listening and insights platform aimed at helping organizations capture genuine employee feedback and turn it into actionable insights. The solution works smoothly with Awardco’s platform, which already supports recognition and rewards. It helps HR teams gather surveys, understand employee feelings, and promote cultural change without using separate tools.
This launch expands Awardco’s capabilities. It integrates recognition, employee engagement surveys, and analytics in one platform. It integrates with human resource information systems (HRIS) and communications tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Awardco Engage provides customizable templates for annual, pulse, onboarding, and exit surveys. It comes with functionality to increase response rates and provides real-time reporting dashboards for anonymous feedback. These features help HR teams spot workplace trends and respond confidently.
According to Awardco CEO Steve Sonnenberg, the new platform goes beyond static data collection — it empowers organizations to “move from feedback to meaningful change” by unifying listening and action in a turnkey, scalable system.
A Unified Approach to Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a key focus for HR teams. They aim to reduce turnover, maintain productivity, and enhance organizational culture. Traditional survey tools often work separately from other talent systems. This creates gaps in how feedback is collected and acted upon. Awardco Engage solves this by integrating listening into the overall employee experience platform. This makes it simpler for HR teams to:
Launch and manage surveys with plug-and-play simplicity
Incentivize participation through award-linked engagement tools
Analyze feedback with sentiment analysis, benchmarking and team-level reporting
Deliver insights across mobile, web, kiosk and collaboration tools like Slack and Teams
Track trends over time to inform action plans and measure outcomes
Future improvements that are being planned include recommendations based on machine learning, action planning and tracking of results with guided functionality – all of which would enable teams to close the gap between insights and impact as they develop their engagement approaches.
Impact on the HR Industry
Awardco’s introduction of Awardco Engage is in line with the larger shift in the HR technology industry, as the function of employee listening is no longer a separate process but has to interface seamlessly with talent, performance, and culture. HR professionals have realized that in addition to knowing the sentiment of employees, having insight into their sentiment, particularly in real-time, is the need of the hour, in terms of shaping the behavior of the organization, as far as retention and performance are concerned.
With the growing need for meaningful feedback and effective communication, especially in a hybrid/remote working model, being able to capture and respond to the voice of employees can create a new differentiator in terms of attracting and retaining top talent. HR professionals using Awardco Engage and other such software will be able to pick up early warnings related to disengagement and develop initiatives related to the well-being and productivity of employees.
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Effects on Businesses and Organizational Culture
For businesses, Awardco Engage delivers several strategic benefits beyond HR operations:
Enhanced Employee Retention: When organizations pay attention to feedback, there are greater chances of gaining the employees’ trust, which is essential to make them feel as if they belong to the organization.
Enhanced Decision-Making: Insight and comparison data enable better decision-making by leaders on topics such as policy, benefits, and work practices.
Scalable Engagement: Through the incorporation of feedback tools within the existing communication avenues, the ability to reach various segments within the employee population, such as the front-line or deskless employees, can be achieved.
A Stronger Culture and Employer Brand: By taking an active stance on feedback from its employees, a company establishes a stronger employer brand that is more attractive to the best employees.
While organizations grapple with the ever-evarying set of expectations in the workplace, the recognition that Awardco is providing through this seamlessly integrated recognition and listening solution is a move towards a far more comprehensive focus on the employee experience. Solutions that do more than just analyze sentiment and are poised to act can help the HR leader and the enterprise achieve true engagement and long-term success.
