Staff Recognition
The importance of long service and staff recognition awards
Having good long service and staff recognition awards is becoming increasingly more important. Good staff won't stay working for a company if they think that the company doesn't value them. When you consider that on average it costs £4000 to recruit an employee it makes good sense to have customer service awards and general service awards for your staff.
Traditionally employees would receive expensive watches or carriage clocks for long service of 25 years or more but this has changed in recent years. Cash or gift vouchers have become the most common token given by companies. The time period employees have worked for a company before receiving their first long service award has greatly reduced and now stands at 5 or 10 years in the majority of companies.
Companies in some specialist sectors have renamed long service awards to staff loyalty rewards and employees are eligible from 2 years with the company.
Mistakes made when rewarding long service
- Some companies have made huge mistakes when rewarding long service. Instead of making the recipients feel proud and valued they have left them feeling insulted with monetary awards of less than five pounds coupled with a certificate for ten years service.
- Other companies give their long service winners a day off as their award but this isn't seen as much of a reward by the vast majority of people who would rather receive cash or vouchers.
- It is also vital to consider your budget and whether you will be able to sustain the same level of award over an extended time period. For instance, there is no point giving 3 people who have worked for your company for 20 years £400 in vouchers if the following year you will have 15 people reaching the same service milestone, but your service awards budget will not increase by enough to give them each £300 in vouchers, let alone £400. Staff will never be happy if long service awards decrease over time. This also applies to retirement gifts.
Choosing long service, customer service and staff recognition awards
To help you choose the best vouchers for your employee awards take a look at Highstreetvouchers.com's top five vouchers listed below. It is no surprise that Love2shop vouchers are at number one because of the vast number of stores on their redeemer list. They have universal appeal.
- Love2shop vouchers
- M & S vouchers
- John Lewis vouchers
- Arcadia vouchers
- Leisure vouchers
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