Bonusly vs. Kudos®

Bonusly has provided us a formal space to post recognition. While face to face recognition still occurs, this is a place where staff can post publicly or privately, but a majority choose public. It has been incredibly popular since our implementation. Staff love the ability to earn time off through recognition. That customized redemption is our most popular reward.

Incentivized

It would be very appropriate to use some of its functionalities when an employee has finished his work and has reported it correctly. In this case, we proceed to rate and mark your work on the platform and then reward him.

Incentivized

• Great platform design - easy to navigate and fun to use
• Great job connecting teams to communicate and celebrate hard work
• Aces it on employee recognition and peer to peer feedback

Incentivized

• Encourages employees to go above and beyond!
• Encourages our staff to make an effort to support our employees by handing out KUDOS for good deeds or for bright ideas that help innovate the company.
• Helps our leaders make informed decisions on good staff by viewing the distribution of KUDOS to our employees and helps maintain a level of professionalism between the employees.

Incentivized

• There should be more option to redeem points like custom rewards.
• Then, more digital gift cards are popular for that specific country. We have a global workforce and there are different countries involved.

• I think Kudos could use some UI enhancements as it can be a bit much info at one time
• I believe Kudos could probably do a better job guiding administrators in setting up their organization kudos page/system to maximize its appearance and layout

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Bonusly is easy to use and intuitive for anyone familiar with technology and using websites. There is a page where posts are made, and a page where rewards are redeemed. It is very straightforward.

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I never had any issues with support. It's especially nice to be able to add location-specific rewards.

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I haven’t found any other platform that I would consider in a similar product to Bonusly. When we got involved with the platform, it was the only one of it’s type and we’ve been blown away with it since then.

Generally, Kudos is super user friendly and anyone can use it even with little or no knowledge of computers. The user interface is fun, interesting with lots of emojis that can be customized to a user's emotions at a time. The redeeming of kudos and the various gifts and reward schemes all bring about lots of interest and fascination to working, especially when it's remote working.

• Employees are encouraged to "live the values" as other members see and recognize their achievements monetarily.
• This spreads a load of recognition from just leadership/managers across the entire organization, potentially eliminating/reducing a recurring existing task your company is currently doing.
• Features/freedom of posting in a 'social media' style environment encourages light-hearted comradery between employees.

Incentivized

• It creates excitement and positive engagement within the staff creating a lively environment.
• It's easy to track the highest receivers and at the end of the year, these receivers are sieved and awarded accordingly.
• Some employees might abuse the system and reward just for the sake of rewarding to get points.
• Reward redemptions are not instant which creates a little demotivation to shine on the spot all the time.

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