Employee Service Awards

Years of Service Award Programs

An Employee Service Award program or often called a years of service program is more than a goodwill gesture for an organization. It provides an ideal opportunity to focus on the service tenure of every employee in your company, one person at a time.
Service award programs traditionally recognize the so called standard milestones starting at 5, 10, 15, 20 years etc. This worked fine in the past but now the problem is that the Generation Y employees, those born in 1978 to 2000, typically only stay at a company 1 ½ years on average. Companies risk losing talented employees by waiting until the 5 year mark to recognize the employee and will not engage the Gen Y employee at all. A recognition culture must be created whereby accomplishments are recognized as they are accomplished, not just tenure, but all milestones as they are passed. Today’s employees want to see that they can make a difference to a company and expect to be recognized for it.

To be effective and engaging, part of the program design assessment and pre-work is to ensure your award mix contains a wide variety of awards that will delight the employees from all demographic groups. The crystal vase and gold watch awards do not motivate the employee or build loyalty, proper recognition and the desired award does. Recognizing the contributions of the employee aligned with the total corporate should all be parts of the recognition strategy.

As your recognition partner R&D is "Award Neutral" so that you get the best fit awards in your years of service or other incentive and recognition award program to align your recognition programs with your corporate values. Recognition awards need to appeal to all employees. Electronic items such as iPods and digital cameras are meaningful to the recipient. We suggest programs with the best fit awards for your employees, not the most profitable that some providers want you to have.
Remember: Meaningful recognition aligned with meaningful rewards means everyone wins.

R&D Corporate Services provides:

Complete program concept, development, design and implementation consultation
Online and offline programs for service, performance and safety recognition

Customized Employee Recognition Kits
Solutions designed for Canadians by Canadians
24/7 statistical reporting and data mining
Awards that suit your corporate culture and budgets
Awards that match your employees’ interests

Corporate Branded Employee Recognition Kit contains:

• Award website login page
• instructions with User ID & Password
• Framed Certificate
• Letter from President/CEO
• Corporate branded Gift catalogue