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    Culture Engine

    N/AN/ACulture Engine is an Employee Recognition platform for Slack and Microsoft Teams. Employees can send public shoutouts tied to company values and attach Coins that recipients can redeem for gift cards, prepaid cards, or charitable donations. Key Capabilities Recognition workflow: Weekly prompts encourage employees to recognize colleagues, while automated birthday and work-anniversary posts reduce manual administrative work. Rewards…

    $4

    per month per user

    Kudos®

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Kudos® is an employee engagement and recognition platform, that harnesses peer-to-peer recognition, casual rewards, values reinforcement, and open communication to help organizations boost employee engagement, reduce turnover, improve culture, and drive productivity and performance.N/A
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    Culture EngineKudos®
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $4
    per month per seat
    Enterprise
    Custom
    For larger orgs that need onboarding, custom reporting, and dedicated support
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    Culture EngineKudos®
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.Kudos® pricing is based on the number of users and the length of the contract.
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    Bonusly
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Bonusly
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    Culture EngineKudos®
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
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    Culture Engine
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    Kudos®
    Kudos is especially useful and helpful during project deployment where team members can be awarded kudos and appreciation and motivation for their team efforts in meeting milestones and targets. In some instances, the reward types or gifts may seem irrelevant to some departments in certain regions or my company' operations in other parts of the African continent.
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    Pros
    Culture Engine
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    Kudos®
    • One of the most useful aspects of this tool is that it allows you to save the profile of each of the employees individually and to be able to track their activities and give them the recognition they deserve.
    • Another useful feature of "kudos is that the system allows you to assign badges to each profile based on their job performance.
    • I also really like that the platform has a dedicated portal for employees. In which they can see their badges, recognitions and awards obtained for their efforts.
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    Culture Engine
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    Kudos®
    • Rewards take a long time to be given out, but this I would put on the company's policy.
    • From my own perspective on a mobile phone, it's not so smooth like on desktop, like searching for a colleagues name sometimes is difficult.
    • Sometimes email notifications take too long to come, or they don't even come at all.
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    Kudos®
    I used to work at a company called Sparc that developed its own in-house platform called Teamphoria. It was great software that coupled a lot of the same features as workday but also with a recognition system. Essentially it allocated certain types of recognition levels per month, 1 platinum, 5 gold, 20 silvers, where each was worth a drawing ticket. At the end of the month, someone would be drawn from that pool based on their received recognition and then receive a gift card. However, some abused this system and devalued its purpose and inflated the meaning behind it. Kudos seems to do a good job by having a direct point/monetization system which isn't up for random chance. This can help even incentivize employees to go above and beyond, getting them to work harder since they are receiving recognition for it.
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    Kudos®
    • Incentivizes employee to work harder.
    • Helps with thanking our employees for jobs well done without having just a normal "Thank You."
    • Allows the employees to use kudos for company SWAG or items they may need in their lives and it's all possible to get thanks to KUDOS.
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    Screenshot of Each week Culture Engine resurfaces a shoutout the team rallied around and posts a recap of the week — shoutouts shared, participation rate, and the value recognized most. Reactions and replies do the rest.Screenshot of Recognition doesn't fail because people don't care — it fails because nobody remembers. Automated weekly nudges and a Weekly Recap keep shoutouts flowing, alongside birthday and work-anniversary posts that happen on their own.Screenshot of People redeem Coins for gift cards, prepaid cards, or charitable donations — 2,500+ options across 200+ countries. Coins never expire, and you're only billed when they're redeemed.

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