How To Tell Whether Your Rewards Program Is Working
Four numbers worth tracking, three that look useful and are not, and the one question an engagement survey will not answer for you.
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Ten articles, written for the person who has to choose the vendor, defend the budget, run the rollout, and explain the tax treatment to a finance team.
Service Milestones Are The Easiest Win And The Most Often Botched
Automatic, universal and impossible to game — so why do work anniversaries so often land badly? Timing, backdating, and the start-date field nobody checked.
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Fringe Benefits Tax And Staff Rewards: The Questions To Take To Your Accountant
We are not tax advisers. But we can tell you which questions come up every time, and what information your accountant will ask for.
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Privacy And Employee Data In A Rewards Program
What the platform genuinely needs, where the visibility line sits, and the five decisions to settle before the first invitation goes out.
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Recognition Or Rewards: Which One Is Doing The Work?
They are not the same lever and they do not fail the same way. How to tell which half of your program is carrying the other.
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Designing Incentives That Do Not Punish People For Taking Leave
Attendance points, perfect-safety-record bonuses, and other rules that quietly turn an entitlement into a penalty.
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Multi-Site Rollouts: What Changes When You Go From One Location To Twelve
It is not the same job twelve times. Sequencing, site champions, budget by location, and the two sites that quietly go dark.
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What A Points Budget Should Actually Cost You
Per-head benchmarks, the gap between committed and issued, and why planning your budget around breakage is a bad idea.
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Why Frontline Rewards Programs Die In The First Ninety Days
Almost always the same four causes, and none of them are the catalogue. What the activation curve looks like when a rollout is going wrong.
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What To Ask Before You Sign A Rewards Platform Contract
Twelve questions on billing basis, exit terms, data ownership and what happens to staff points if you walk away.
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