Pluxee Employee Experience: Employee recognition platforms

8 October 2025

Welcome to another blog focusing on one of the core features of our Pluxee Employee Experience platform. We’ve already tackled all the pet peeves related to employee discounts and cashback rewards cards. Here, we’re delving into rewards and recognition platforms. We understand what you need; we’ve noted what you’ve found lacking in other solutions, and we’ve put that knowledge to excellent use, building something that truly delivers.

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Pluxee Employee Experience: Tackling 12 common recognition platform woes

Pluxee Employee Experience & your pain-free employee recognition scheme

FAQs

In a hurry? Here are the top three things to know about the Pluxee Employee Experience recognition platform features.

1. Pluxee Employee Experience solves the 12 most common recognition platform problems: Pluxee Employee Experience addresses the most frequent pain points with reward and recognition software—like feeling stale, lacking clarity, excluding non-target roles, or being difficult to use—by offering a modern, inclusive, customisable, and human-first solution that’s embedded in everyday workflows.

2. It's an all-in-one, seamless, mobile-first platform: Pluxee integrates peer-to-peer recognition, perks, cashback, and rewards within a single app, reducing admin burden and making adoption easier for employees and managers alike. It keeps everything in one place—one portal, one login, one experience.

3. Delivers real business value with measurable outcomes: Designed with real-time reporting and admin control, Pluxee empowers HR and leadership teams to track usage, measure impact, and demonstrate ROI—turning recognition into a strategic tool, not just a feel-good add-on.

Got time to stick around? Let's dive a little deeper.

If you’re a regular visitor to our blog or socials, you’ll have heard that we’ve launched our Pluxee Employee Experience. It’s an entire ecosystem of perks, rewards and peer-to-peer recognition perfectly packaged into an easy-to-use app.

We supported the introduction with a comprehensive blog (we know it's a beast) that provided everything you need to know -- Pluxee Employee Experience Platform: Real Perks. Unbeatable Value.

Since then, we’ve been delving into the core elements of the Pluxee Employee Experience platform through blogs on the perks that form it: Discounts and our Pluxee Cashback Card.

Find out how we’re doing things differently with those popular benefits below:

As we did with those blogs, here we’re focusing on the common gripes employers and employees have with employee recognition platforms, highlighting how we’ve built and will continually evolve a solution that helps eradicate HR headaches.

Pluxee Employee Experience: Tackling 12 common recognition platform woes

When we began our research, we found that the same twelve issues employers and employees have with reward and recognition platforms kept arising. These twelve issues became obstacles we were determined to overcome, as we’ll reveal below.

1. Exciting

One of the most common concerns that users and rewards administrators have with rewards and recognition platforms is that they can feel quite stale. They can quickly become samey, losing their shine and impact.

Your employees access our recognition portal via the Pluxee App, where they can quickly and easily send a message of their appreciation to a colleague. They can spend their own rewards in that same space, and will receive an alert whenever someone recognises them.

It’s got everything needed to feel exciting, with the power in your admin team’s hands to easily update the eCards and messaging to keep things fresh.

2. Aligned with business values and needs

When you embed employee recognition software into your Employee Value Proposition (EVP), you shouldn’t be restricted to set behaviours the provider believes to be worthy of recognition. You have must align recognition with your values and needs for it to be impactful.

Your employee recognition scheme can support in driving the behaviours, values and outcomes that help you achieve your goals. That’s why you can customise your staff recognition scheme within the Pluxee Employee Experience platform to align with your values and identity, rewarding the behaviours you need to see more of.

3. Modern

Another common issue with a recognition platform for employees is that the tech is outdated and clunky. Ease of use is an essential element because employees won’t stand for an app that presents more challenges than rewards. The more usability blockers present, the less likely employees are to use it, no matter how much they enjoy expressing their appreciation.

We’re delivering your employee recognition scheme via a purpose-made SaaS platform, and today’s version is only the beginning. We have a detailed roadmap for new features to ensure our app continues to meet the needs of the most tech-savvy users.

4. Authentic

Reward and recognition in the workplace must be authentic. There are too many instances where it feels like ticking a box.

The Pluxee Employee Experience puts peer-to-peer recognition at the heart of everything, giving your entire workforce the chance to share the moments that matter most, when they happen. In the moment and on point!

5. Meaningful

Employee recognition software delivers the features and functionality, but you have to put the heart into the scheme. Recognition is most impactful when it’s meaningful to your people and business.

Build the moments and values that matter into the platform – the big wins and culture-defining moments for inclusive, genuine, and meaningful recognition that your entire workforce will thrive on.

6. Fair and inclusive

Historically, reward and recognition in the workplace would’ve been target-based. You land a client, you get a bonus, you hit your sales – another bonus. These are still behaviours that merit reward within your employee recognition scheme, but they exclude colleagues with roles and achievements you can’t measure in the same way.

With peer-to-peer and values-driven employee recognition platforms, you create an inclusive world where every employee can be recognised for their contributions and achievements.

7. Transparent

Another issue that often arises with an employee recognition scheme is that it’s not always clear to your workforce what values they should recognise their colleagues for embracing.

The beauty of the Pluxee Employee Experience recognition portal is that you’re not just limited to listing out what your company values are. With space to add descriptions, you can make it crystal clear what each value means within your business.

8. Clear

In addition to defining each value within your employee recognition platform, it’s incredibly helpful for your employees to have clear criteria that define where behaviours and wins fit within the organisational values.

Most businesses understand the importance of a positive workplace culture and define their values and vision to help bring that culture to life. Still, if they’re just words on a page or in a corporate video, they can lack clarity.

Pluxee Employee Experience gives you space to provide clear direction on how your values translate into a working day, helping bring peer-to-peer recognition to life, offering much-needed guidance on what you expect from your people.

7. Integrated

Integration of different solutions is a common issue many businesses have with employee benefits as a whole, and this includes employee recognition software. If it becomes another platform they have to manage and another password to remember, it makes more work for your admins and becomes less attractive to your employees.

Our employee recognition platform lives within the Pluxee Employee Experience app. Your employees access it in the same place where they view all their perks, and your HR and benefits administrative teams have only one portal to log into to manage everything.

8. Manager buy-in

It’s not just your workforce that may need convincing about the value of your employee recognition scheme. Lack of manager buy-in is another blocker to your programme's success.

If recognition becomes an extra task and lacks meaning, it will feel like a tick in a box to your leaders -- a tool they use to help keep morale high, that they don’t really rate.

Authenticity and inclusivity will help secure manager buy-in, as will giving them the option to issue rewards against peer recognitions. The Pluxee Employee Experience enables your HR team to allocate points to managers, allowing them to distribute rewards as they see fit. Those points turn into ponds, making the recognition even more meaningful.

11. Human-first

In a world where tech needs to deliver and admin must be as ‘light’ as possible, we run the risk of employee recognition platforms losing the human touch.

Peer-to-peer and values-based recognition help keep the human feel. Peer recognition is human recognition, and behavioural recognition is about how people bring your values to life.

Pluxee Employee Experience may be mobile-first, but it’s also human-first, putting the needs of your users at the heart of everything.

12. Value for money

We’re finishing with a biggie. The argument that can demolish even the most well-presented business cases -- demonstrating value for money.

It can be challenging. You can measure the success of a marketing campaign by the number of leads it generated, the amount of business it delivered, and, therefore, the revenue it generated.

Benefits and recognition platforms often deliver less tangible results. That’s one challenge, but frequently, the mission to demonstrate value fails at the first hurdle – the ability to pull the right data.

Just another HR headache that the Pluxee Employee Experience can help eradicate. With real-time reporting functionality in an all-in-one platform, the data you need to measure and demonstrate value is at your fingertips.

No more falling down the reporting rabbit hole!

Pluxee Employee Experience & your pain-free employee recognition scheme

Did we miss anything? Is there something about recognition schemes that you find lacking that we’ve not covered? If we have, then by all means, let us know.

We’ve given you twelve examples of how we’re doing employee recognition differently. Given that recognition is just one part of the Pluxee Employee Experience – a mobile-first platform for all your benefits and rewards -- we actually have many more reasons that make exploring this solution worth your time.

No more quiet wins. No more meaningless perks. It’s time to do reward and recognition properly.

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FAQs

What types of recognition does the platform support?

Pluxee Employee Experience supports peer-to-peer recognition, manager-led recognition, values-based recognition, length of service recognition, and target-driven recognition. Celebrate the wins and milestones that matter most.