Celebrating Excellence: The Power and Impact of Employee Recognition Programs in Fostering a Positive Workplace Culture

Who doesn’t like recognition and appreciation? Nobody! Everyone wants their efforts to be noticed and appreciated, whether it be at home, at work or anywhere else. Being praised or acknowledged for one’s efforts is a huge boost to one’s morale and self esteem and even pushes them to do better. On the other hand, someone’s efforts or hard work going unnoticed is not a nice feeling. Therefore, it is extremely impactful when these things are acknowledged. It fosters a positive workplace culture. This is extremely important, especially because employees put in a lot of effort for the betterment of the company and not because those efforts directly benefit them. This is where Employee Recognition Programs come into the picture. 

Key takeaways from this article- It is extremely important that a positive culture for employees be built and maintained at places of work. It is quite important for employee morale, retention and productivity. One of the many ways to do so is by implementing ‘employee recognition’ programs.

As employers, it is one’s responsibility to make sure their employees feel appreciated and looked after. While companies come up with elaborate policies and schemes daily, oftentimes they forget the most basic and effective thing of all- employee recognition. During the pandemic, most people were working from home. After the pandemic ended, a lot of companies that had adopted the hybrid work model, continued implementing it.  Employee Recognition Programs can be a huge incentive for employees to come back and work from the office, instead of working from the comfort of their homes. They also make the workplace a welcoming space to be in, further boosting employee morale and building a good work environment, ethic and culture. 

Lately, a lot more importance is being given to Employee Recognition Programs in India and most big companies have them. This is a positive step forward towards fostering a healthy and positive workplace culture.

Did you know?

As per surveys, 87% of the employees felt that meaningful recognition impacts their job satisfaction.

Reference- https://nectarhr.com/blog/employee-recognition-statistics 

What are Employee Recognition Programs?

Employee Recognition Programs are methods or programs devised by companies to recognize the employees’ achievements or positive actions.

This recognition comes in different ways. It usually comes from a manager or other superior for an employee, but also includes peer-to-peer recognition, recognition of a whole team’s efforts in reaching a milestone, sticking to a deadline, or achieving something big, or from a member of one team to another. These programs come with a range of awards from a photo posted on a wall in honour of the employee to bonuses.

Employee recognition programs lead to improved employee morale, increase employee retention rates, attract key employees, increase productivity and competitiveness, and also boost revenues and profitability.

What are the different kinds of Employee Recognition Programs?

Employee Recognition Programs are of two kinds- private recognition programs and public recognition programs. These programs can be crafted and implemented through partnerships with companies like Pluxee. Let’s take a quick look at the employee benefits and rewards that Pluxee provides-

Meal benefits

Meal benefits like meal cards, food cards and meal card apps are a great benefit to give to employees as food is an essential part of everyone's day and employees will appreciate having easy access to meals at all times. 

Fuel allowance

This includes reimbursements for fuel expenses incurred while travelling to and from work meetings, site visit, commuting to work on a daily basis and also train/metro or other public transport expense reimbursements. This is another benefit that is extremely important.

Telecommunication benefits

This includes allowances for wifi, broadband, landlines or personal mobile phone bills. As most people work on their phones and laptops these days, this can be very helpful and save employees a lot of hassle, time and money.

Driver’s salary

As the heading suggests, this is an allowance that can be used by employees to pay their driver’s salary. This is a helpful and unique benefit to offer your employees. 

Some other benefits that Pluxee offers are rewards, LTA, books and periodicals, office wear etc. 

All of these play a key role in celebrating excellence and fostering a positive workplace culture by empowering, encouraging and recognizing the employees and their efforts.

Read more here- https://www.pluxee.in/products/meal-employee-benefits/