Peer-to-peer recognition your whole team can see
Employees and managers send kudos from their phones in seconds. Kudos appear in your location's recognition feed and can award points and notify the recipient.
Kudos
Pick a teammate and a badge, then send. Employees see the kudos they've given and received, plus recognition from across your location.
Custom Badges
Start with built-in emoji badges or upload your own badge images, like one for each of your company values.
Kudos Allowance
Set how many kudos each employee can give per month and how many points each kudos is worth.
Manager Points
Managers send kudos to several people at once, add or subtract points, and see a points leaderboard by shift.
A rewards shop you stock and control
Employees redeem their points in the Kudos Shop for rewards you choose. You decide what's in the catalog, what each item costs in points, and how often it can be redeemed.
- ✅Stock anything that fits your culture and budget: company gear, gift cards, perks, or experiences.
- ✅Offer sizes, colors, and other options, each with its own stock count and point cost.
- ✅Set limits per order, or per employee each month or over their lifetime.
- ✅Employees order from their phones, and you move each order from pending to processing to fulfilled.
- ✅You buy and hand out the rewards yourself. Employee HQ charges no additional redemption fees or markups on employer-provided rewards.
Reward results automatically
Record employee and department performance scores, with an optional PDF for each record. Employees see their own scores and their department's results in the app.
Turn on performance rewards and set score levels once. When you record an employee's score, Employee HQ awards the matching points automatically.
- Score of 90 or higher50 points
- Score of 80 or higher25 points
- Score of 70 or higher10 points
You choose the levels and point values, up to 20 levels per location.
Keep every shift in the loop
Share news, documents, and events in the same app your team opens for recognition. Send updates to everyone or only the shifts you choose.
News
Post updates to everyone or to specific shifts. Pin what matters, attach files, and flag urgent news to send a push notification.
Documents
Keep policies, procedures, and forms in organized folders your team can open anytime.
Calendar
Share events, deadlines, and milestones so everyone at your location knows what's coming up.
Directory
Make leadership and key contacts easy to find so employees always know who to reach when they need help.
Also included
Everyday tools for hourly teams, in the same app.
Time Off
Employees request time off from their phones, and supervisors review every request in one place.
Overtime
Post overtime with open spots and sign-up deadlines for everyone or selected shifts. Employees sign up from their phones.
Voluntary Time Off
Offer VTO and let employees claim it quickly, without messy side-channel coordination.
Emergency Time
Employees check their emergency time balances and related documents without extra back-and-forth.
Built for employees and the people who lead them
Managers get simple tools to recognize and inform their team. Employees get recognized, rewarded, and kept in the loop.
Recognize your team and keep them informed
- •Send kudos to one person or several at once, and award bonus points.
- •Stock the Kudos Shop and track every order through fulfillment.
- •Reward performance scores with points automatically.
- •Post news to everyone or specific shifts, and keep documents organized.
Get recognized, earn rewards, and stay in the loop
- •Give kudos to teammates and see recognition from across your location.
- •Earn points and redeem them for rewards in the Kudos Shop.
- •Choose whether to receive push notifications for kudos and urgent news.
- •Request time off and sign up for overtime or VTO from your phone.
Why frontline teams choose Employee HQ
Purpose-built for organizations that value their hourly and shift-based workforce
Built for Phones, Not Desks
Employees give kudos and redeem rewards in the mobile app, so recognition reaches people who never sit at a computer.
Rewards on Your Terms
Stock the shop with what fits your culture and set point costs and limits. Employee HQ charges no additional redemption fees or markups on employer-provided rewards.
Scales With You
Manage one location or many. It's free while your organization has 10 or fewer active employees, then $3 per active employee per month.
Ready to see it in action?
Start for free and see what recognition can do for your team.