Fond (formerly AnyPerk) is an employee engagement software solution from the company of the same name in San Francisco, offering an employee engagement survey but emphasizing the reward side to employee engagement, with perks and what the vendor touts as intuitive incentives and prizes.
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Workboard
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Workboard from the company of the same name in Redwood City, California is an objectives and key results (OKR) software tool.
Fond is a great way to incentivize your sales team during contests and rewards for top performers. Also, a great way to incentivize your partners such as referral sources and clients. I can’t think of anything where it’s not really appropriate as an offering. Great offering for employee vacation perks.
Workboard is well suited in any organization IMO, it allows the individual business units to quickly set, define, organize and track their respective OKR's and align them with the larger business goals. The speed at which we're able to do this with Workboard has allowed us to spend more time on the goals themselves and less time on the management of the goal-setting exercise.
Provides a long list of alternatives that make it easy to use your Fond points for the product/services you truly care about.
Very easy to redeem; select what you want to receive, and click redeem with the points/dollars requested. Typically, gift cards are provided within seconds.
Regularly rotate offerings so that you have many options throughout the year.
Project management at higher level - includes tasks assignment, visual representations of the project status and deadlines
Increases the team members' sense of ownership - especially for people that are not used with or exposed to dedicated project management tools like Microsoft Project is.
User collaboration - which in turn reduces the communication via email
Increases the efficiency of the meetings - by quickly going through the action items and updating the task progress in the tool itself
When first trying to select a gift card, I'd get an occasional error message, but other than that, it was pretty easy to use.
Getting more widespread with the types of awards that users can redeem is always a plus!
This may have changed since I last used Fond, but last time I tried using the system, the total points you had were tucked away in a somewhat obscure location.
We have not tested other products that offer such a way to award our employees for doing a fantastic job. Fond has been helping with all the necessary situations and the costs have been quite low. We have not looked into other products. I would recommend going with Fond because we have not found any quality issues with their service.
Workboard vs Microsoft Project(and its Server) is like comparing a regular sport car with Formula 1 cars. One is lighter, nicer, with a broader audience, it gets you there fast while the other one is dedicated, not as nice, especially built for it, not for everyone and it will get you there much faster.