Blueboard Advances Platform to Help Companies Reward Employees with Experiences Over Things in a Post-Covid Workplace
SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) March 28, 2023 -- Blueboard (http://www.blueboard.com), the world’s largest curated experiential marketplace for employee rewards and recognition, today announced a set of platform upgrades to help corporate leaders jumpstart employee engagement, performance, and retention in the post-COVID workplace. These latest developments build upon Blueboard’s efforts to enable companies to reward and recognize employees worldwide with meaningful experiences over things to inspire an increasingly hybrid, diverse, and multi-generational workforce.
New features include enhanced socialization tools that enable employees to capture and share videos of their experiences to make employer rewards and recognition programs more buzzworthy. Additional upgrades include granular audience segmentation tools that empower Anniversary Programs to better celebrate tenured employees, and new levels of customization for Incentives Programs to drive positive business outcomes for organizations.
“The pandemic has changed the way we live and work. It has blurred boundaries and made it even more difficult for employees to unplug, recharge, and connect with the things that make them who they are,” said Jason Wiener, Vice President of Product & Engineering at Blueboard. “All of this impacts their ability to bring energy to work. For companies that want to drive better business outcomes with happier employees, it’s time to get people out of the office and into the world. By feeding employees’ curiosity, encouraging them to indulge in passions, and celebrate life with their friends and family, companies will get the ROI they seek.”
With impressive growth, significant customer expansions and record renewals as social distancing rules lifted over the last two years, Blueboard is seeing high demand as companies look for ways to reward and recognize employees with meaningful experiences. Leading companies like GoPro, Jumio, Mercedes Benz, Salesforce, Shake Shack, Teladoc Health, The Trade Desk, and more partner with Blueboard to offer their employees personalized experiential rewards programs at scale.
“During the pandemic and now with the increasing gravity to virtually convey the employee experience to candidates, shareholders, and current team members, Blueboard provides an enhanced way to reward our employees and show how they celebrate and engage,” said Megan Barbier, Global Vice President of People and Culture at Jumio. “We socialize their Blueboard experiences (photos, feedback) on our social media platforms to showcase our employees, their personalities, and our cultural ethos. The video feature is going to up our game on this forum with an additional layer of emotion and honesty, especially for those who can't always interview onsite or meet team members in person.”
Blueboard uniquely focuses on experiential rewards to reimagine recognition and amplify its impact. For some, that means earning a bucket-list trip to Europe with family. For others it’s getting a much-needed massage at a top local spa or prime tickets to cheer on their favorite sports team. Throughout them all, Blueboard’s curated global experience menu gives rewarded employees the power of choice—the ability to pick personally meaningful rewards and redeem them at local businesses worldwide. Blueboard’s white-glove concierge service ensures that every recipient feels appreciated, understood, and valued with a meticulously planned and stress-free experience. Leveraging Blueboard’s proven, prescriptive approach to building employee recognition programs—The Blueboard Method™—companies benefit from step-by-step guidance to create rewards and recognition programs that drive real results.
WHAT'S NEW?
Shareable Videos, Visual Dashboard, and Data Intelligence to Socialize Programs:
Blueboard has advanced the capability for employees to share photos from their #blueboarding experiences, now enabling employees to also upload videos of their experiential rewards. Photos and videos boost enthusiasm for and participation in recognition programs, and creates a ripple effect that generates buzz about the employer’s brand, values, and culture. New upgrades also include a new visual dashboard with program leaderboards and data to drive budget and manager utilization. Additionally, automated reminders make it easier to encourage redemption, participation, and get more post-experience feedback from employees.
Easily Configured and Customized Employee Incentives Programs to Drive Outcomes
Frequent Incentive Program use cases for Blueboard are Sales Incentives to drive revenue and Referral Incentives to motivate top employees to refer the best talent. With recent upgrades, Blueboard has made it easier for administrators to fully customize and manage Incentive programs, and also for program participants to pre-select a highly curated experience. In addition to giving participants access to the details of their chosen experience to provide instant gratification, admins also have new levels of insight to assess if the participant is engaged in the program.
Anniversary Programs with New Segmentation Capabilities for Global Workforces
To help companies further enhance their Anniversary programs, Blueboard's Anniversary Engine now has a new layer of audience segmentation capabilities. Clients can now customize rewards based on various criteria, such as department, location, or job function, ensuring that employees receive personalized rewards that match their unique contributions, interests, and needs.
Pricing
Blueboard offers a budget friendly transparent pricing model consisting of a setup fee, annual service fee, and rewards budget. A wide range of flexible experiential reward levels are available for every recognition moment, big and small.
Integration
Blueboard connects with ease to other leading HR and HRIS technology platforms, collaboration tools, and SSO solutions, such as Workday, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Okta, Microsoft Azure, and more, for seamless integration and streamlined workflows.
About Blueboard
Blueboard is the experiential rewards platform of choice for the world's most loved employers. We make it easy for companies to give experiential employee rewards, incentives, and gifts—from one-of-a-kind to once-in-a-lifetime experiences (think skydiving, dining at Michelin star restaurants, learning to blow glass, or chasing the Northern Lights). We support enterprise workforces across 70 countries and partner with hundreds of Best Places to Work including Abbott's Diabetes Care, Mixpanel, Segment, Glassdoor, Shake Shack, GoPro, and Ubisoft to help them celebrate their people in a more meaningful way. Learn more at Blueboard.com.
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