Pluxee Employee Experience Platform: Real Perks. Unbeatable Value
15 September 2025
We’re thrilled to dive into the Pluxee Employee Experience – what it is, how we’re different, and what makes our all-in-one, mobile-first benefits, rewards, and recognition platform the smarter choice for your people and business. Pluxee Employee Experience delivers benefits that benefit, not just another corporate tick box. Fully branded and hassle-free, it integrates with your existing setup, delivers real-time insights, and provides dedicated account management and UK-based support.
Content:
What is Pluxee Employee Experience?
What makes the Pluxee Employee Experience platform different?
The works: driving the success of your strategy
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience platform improve mental wellbeing?
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience platform improve physical wellbeing?
The Pluxee Employee Experience: Generating business savings
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience reduce HR admin?
The Pluxee Employee Experience platform & your CSR credentials
In a hurry? Here are the top three things you need to know about the Pluxee Employee Experience.
1. One integrated, mobile-first platform for all benefits, rewards & recognition: Pluxee Employee Experience combines all employee perks—including financial, mental, physical wellbeing, and reward & recognition—into one unified, mobile-first app. This eliminates the need for multiple platforms, simplifies HR admin, and ensures employees can access everything in one place, anytime, anywhere.
2. Real ROI: Boost engagement, reduce costs, and save time: Pluxee Employee Experience helps businesses reduce National Insurance costs via salary sacrifice schemes, cut absenteeism through wellbeing tools (like Online GP and EAP), and improve retention with meaningful, timely recognition and rewards. It also provides easy-to-use analytics to track usage, engagement, and return on investment—no IT support needed.
3. Recognition & financial wellbeing that actually work: Employees get in-the-moment, values-based recognition and instant rewards through flexible tools like eVouchers and the Pluxee Card, which offers up to 15% cashback at 80+ UK retailers. Create a more motivated, appreciated, and financially supported workforce, increasing engagement and morale across hybrid, remote, and deskless teams alike.
Got time to stick around? Let's dive a little deeper.
What is Pluxee Employee Experience?
Pluxee Employee Experience is an all-encompassing and unified employee experience platform. It’s a new way to deliver everyday value through employee benefits – simple, unified, and built for how people actually live and spend today.
Pluxee Employee Experience brings everything we already offer – financial, health and wellbeing solutions, commuter benefits, and salary sacrifice schemes, with a brand-new mobile-first reward and recognition platform.
User-friendly to the point of addiction, we’ve aligned simplicity, efficiency, value for money, usability and our market-leading prepaid cashback card with the wants and needs of your people and business to form the heart of the Pluxee Employee Experience.
One platform, endless opportunities and no more wasted benefits.
What makes the Pluxee Employee Experience platform different?
We’re not the first to announce an all-singing and dancing employee experience platform, but we could well be the first to dig deep into everything that irritates you about the solutions already on the market to offer something that resolves them.
We’re making underutilised perks and rewards a thing of the past, recognition purposeful, meaningful and timely, simplifying HR admin, delivering value for money, and a return on investment.
Perks: The employee benefits your people need
Pluxee Employee Experience unifies every employee benefit we offer into one mobile-first hub:
Financial wellbeing benefits
- Cashback-earning, prepaid Pluxee Card
- Daily discounts on essentials and big purchases.
- Smartpay
- Refurbished Tech
- Salary sacrifice schemes
Health & wellbeing benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Online GP
- Gym & fitness discounts
- Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
Reward & recognition
- Recognition platform
- eVouchers
Commuter benefits
- Green Cars
- Cycle to Work
It’s a comprehensive list -- an end-to-end, holistic employee engagement and wellbeing solution that your entire workforce can access from one app.
Breaking barriers to the benefits that matter most with an employee experience platform that knows no limits.
What’s different about this list of employee benefits?
We know that’s what you’re thinking, and it’s fine, because we have the answer.
At the heart of the Pluxee Employee Experience is the Pluxee Card – a flexible, user-friendly rewards tool and salary-stretching benefit offering instant cashback at over 80 major retailers, including all *four major UK supermarkets. Unlike traditional voucher platforms requiring cumbersome redemptions, the Pluxee Card is instant, seamless, and multifunctional, making it the cornerstone of an enhanced employee experience.
We cannot underestimate the impact the Pluxee Card is having on people and businesses. There’s so much more to it than earning cashback, as you’ll discover in ‘The Pluxee Card: Your Ultimate Guide’.
No more clunky redemptions or delays, just in-the-moment cashback on the things your employees need.
Purposeful recognition
Pluxee Employee Experience includes in-the-moment, peer-to-peer, values-based recognition. No more quiet wins, no more stale cultures. Our Pluxeers have been using their new peer-to-peer recognition app since April 2025, and they love it!
In the two weeks that followed the internal launch of our recognition app, 89% of our colleagues registered, 58% were actively using it to recognise their peers, sending a total of over 700 eCards. That’s just in the first two weeks!
We should add some context here around the journey to creating Pluxee Employee Experience – our all-in-one employee experience platform set to streamline your benefits administration and take engagement to the next level.
Recognition is nothing new here at Pluxee UK. We live and breathe it, and have been using an internal recognition platform, ROAR, for years. We’ve even created bespoke recognition platforms for some of our clients. We just never went out to market with a single recognition solution. Until now.
When we created our new mobile-first employee experience platform, we started with the recognition module, launching an early version of the app internally.
Play. Test. Learn. Grow -- code for tackling any user issues. Who better to learn from than the people whose lives you touch?
From legacy values to meaningful culture
The story goes a bit deeper than the app. You see, our legacy recognition platform dates back to our days as Sodexo Engage. The Pluxee Group, of which we’re one country out of 31, is evolving, as is Life@Pluxee. When we rolled out the recognition app internally, we also embraced the new Pluxee values.
We've introduced a brand-new values-based recognition app to our employees, providing a fresh way to appreciate their colleagues and clarity on the behaviours that deserve praise.
Values-based recognition
We personalised the recognition module within our employee experience platform, and so can you. That’s the point of values-based recognition – it needs to reflect yours, not ours. The recognition area within the admin portal allows you to define your values, not just in name, but also offering clear criteria for what each value represents and the behaviours that merit recognition within it. From there, you can even choose eCards to reflect each value.
Peer-to-peer recognition at its best
With the power to appreciate colleagues from their phone, you’re enabling simple, inclusive, timely, and meaningful recognition. From the corner office to the factory floor, the driver doing their rounds (as long as they’re safely parked 😊) to the remote employees working miles away from their colleagues, everyone has an equal opportunity to recognise and be recognised.
Rewards that matter most
Backing up in-the-moment recognition with instant rewards takes appreciation to the next level.
Here's how the Pluxee Employee Experience delivers...
Your platform admins grant managers the permissions and budget to allocate a money or points for an act of recognition. If a colleague recognises another for something that really stands out, their manager enhance the impact with a reward.
No waiting for performance reviews or Christmas bonuses. No more hoping the right people high up can see your worth. Managers have the discretion to give a reward, regardless of who the recognition came from.
Seen. Heard. Valued. Rewarded.
Inclusive eVouchers
There are different ways to issue employee rewards with our mobile-first employee experience platform, and we’ll tackle eVouchers first.
You can purchase our eVouchers as a standalone product, and many clients embed them into their rewards strategy, especially at Christmas. They’re also built into our employee experience platform, giving your workforce the opportunity to redeem their rewards with over 100 retailers.
Within the Pluxee Employee Experience, a manager would issue the reward as points. Employees then redeem points within the app, purchasing an eVoucher from their chosen retailer, and paying with their points or adding their own funds as well, should they want to spend more.
Pluxee Card: making rewards stretch further
Issuing points that will convert to rewards is one option; our prepaid, cashback-earning Pluxee Card is another.
Our Pluxee Card is part of the Pluxee Employee Experience core package, and as well as enhancing financial wellbeing as a salary-stretching employee benefit, you can use it to issue rewards.
The same principle applies as with issuing points, but instead of adding the points to the employee’s account, you can load the monetary equivalent onto their Pluxee Card. The opportunity to earn up to 15% cashback when they use their card with one of our over 80 participating retailers makes your reward even more valuable.
The works: driving the success of your strategy
Rewards, perks, the works! That’s what Pluxee Employee Experience offers. Smart choices, smart partner.
Pluxee Employee Experience delivers the benefits your employees need with the rewards and recognition solutions that drive engagement and retention. Still, we’ve been in this game long enough to know that you need more than just the right tools to make an impact and see results.
You need a partner who gives you more, and you deserve that. Further down, we have a detailed section on how our employee experience platform generates business savings, reduces HR admin, and makes Pluxee Employee Experience the smarter choice, so we won’t delve too deep here.
What we will say is that from the very first conversation, we get to know you, your business and people so we can help align your benefits strategy to meet your goals. We're asking you to trust us with the wellbeing of your employees and the success of your strategy, and we don’t take this lightly.
Did you know that one connected platform drives engagement up to six times higher and reduces HR complexity?
A personalised approach
Another way to drive benefits engagement, which is one of the ways you’ll see a return on investment (ROI), is to allow your workforce to personalise their preferences. Within the app, your employees can select the categories or retailers that interest them most. Once they do, the ‘For You’ section on the home screen will only show offers from retailers and brands they actually want to spend with.
Bye-bye, meaningless perks. Hello, lifestyle-improving benefits!
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience platform improve financial wellbeing?
81% of UK employees feel the impact of rising living costs. Helping people save money through discounts is no longer optional; it’s a lifeline.
Do you know what puts employees off using their employee benefits? Having to log into multiple platforms.
Our hassle-free portal isn’t just a hotspot for instant savings; it’s the place where you can unlock voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits, too.
60% of workers value discounts and cashback the most, which is why our exclusive range of employee discounts and market-leading Pluxee Card are integral to our Pluxee Employee Experience offering.
Our mobile-first employee experience platform is a new way to deliver everyday value through employee benefits -- simple, unified, and built for how people actually live and spend today.
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience platform improve mental wellbeing?
In 2024, nearly 10% of UK adults were absent from work for mental health reasons, with 45% of those absences lasting one month or longer, costing the UK economy £57.4 billion (MHFA England).
Your entire workforce can access our Employee Assistance Programme from within their employee experience platform app, making in-the-moment mental health support accessible 24/7, 365 days a year -- whenever, wherever.
Our Annual Leave Purchase scheme is an incredibly popular wellbeing benefit, giving employees more time for what matters most. Help employees adopt a better work-life balance with instant access to this voluntary benefit, which happens to save your business money, too.
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience platform improve physical wellbeing?
Some employees like going to the gym, others prefer the golf course, there’s the hiit squad, the yoga lovers and the meditators. Our Gym and Fitness Discounts give employees access to over 3,000 gyms, fitness centres, bootcamps and digital platforms and are part of our Pluxee Employee Experience ecosystem.
Preventative healthcare is a top HR priority, especially given that the latest CIPD research shows that the average absenteeism rate is 9.4 days per employee (HR Grapevine). This two-day increase – nearly two full working weeks per employee – hurts your business and the economy.
Online GP, our digital health platform, removes the barriers to accessible and timely healthcare, with same-day appointments available 24 hours a day that your employees can fit around work and other responsibilities.
Listen to our podcast below to discover the difference Online GP can make to your people and business.
The Pluxee Employee Experience: Generating business savings
An employee experience platform requires upfront investment, but it doesn’t have to be an expense.
Our research with over 500 UK employees found that only 11% effectively utilised their employee benefits. Figures like that won’t help you achieve a return, which is why we designed the Pluxee Employee Experience app around the perks and benefits your employees need, along with the functionality that will keep them coming back for more.
Below, we explore the many ways Pluxee Employee Experience can help you reach a return on investment and generate business savings.
Salary and NIC-reducing voluntary benefits
Salary sacrifice schemes are voluntary benefits that allow employees to spread the cost of a new bike or car over a set period. While repaying, the employee takes home a lower wage, reducing their tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC). As the employer, your NIC bill also reduces, and this can generate significant business savings.
The University of Salford generated over £180,000 of salary and NIC savings through employee uptake of their Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes. They also offer employees our Annual Leave Purchase scheme (ALP). ALP isn’t a salary sacrifice scheme, but because the employee pays you for extra days off, the reduction of their salary during the repayment period lowers your wage bill.
Improve employee retention
In our blog, ‘Retain Top Talent with Our Seven Employee Retention Tips’, our Senior HR Business Partner, Tom Nash, states that it can cost up to £30,000 or more whenever you recruit a new employee.
Any measures you implement to reduce employee turnover will reduce this avoidable overhead. A competitive Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is vital for reducing turnover. Pluxee Employee Experience, is an engaging, vibrant and unified perks, recognition and rewards platform, offering instant access to the benefits that keep employees loyal.
Attract top talent
Retaining employees is vital, but you will need to attract new talent, whether through natural attrition or expansion, and everything we’ve said about improving employee retention is valid for talent acquisition.
Attracting top talent is pricey, so you should make it your mission to become an employer of choice. Create a robust and inclusive EVP and a culture that will have the talent knocking on your door.
Pluxee Employee Experience delivers all this in a user-friendly package.
Reduce absenteeism
We’ve already mentioned the rise in absenteeism and the importance of preventative healthcare. The health and wellbeing solutions that form part of the Pluxee Employee Experience help employees take better care of themselves and get support before their mental or physical issues worsen.
In our blog, ‘Nurture Healthy Employees with Online GP’, we share that 41% of adults take half a day off work to attend GP appointments, and 26% of patients had to wait more than one week to get a GP appointment at their local surgery.
Taking time off and experiencing long delays are significant barriers to employees seeking the help they need. So many people just ‘put up’ with the ailments until they can no longer ignore them. Until symptoms become so debilitating that they’re taking sick leave.
Online GP and EAP remove barriers to preventative and reactive healthcare, getting employees on the road to recovery sooner and keeping them healthier for longer.
Boost employee engagement
A unified employee experience platform can boost employee engagement by six times higher than companies with separate solutions hosted and accessed from different portals.
How does this generate business savings? Glad you asked.
Organisations with a highly engaged workforce are more profitable. A large proportion of unplanned absences are due to disengagement, not illness. Highly engaged employees are more productive, and the more engaged and committed people are to your business, the less likely they are to leave.
Elevate employee motivation
We often tackle the topic of employee motivation, applying the theories of Maslow, Herzberg and Pink to a variety of situations where you need to motivate your workforce.
While there are many factors that truly motivate employees, recognition and reward have a vital role in every conversation. Take a deep dive into all things recognition -- Employee recognition: The ultimate guide for employers.
How you deliver your recognition strategy is just as important. Our blog, ‘13 benefits of a reward and recognition platform’, explains why you need a unified approach, and that’s precisely what Pluxee Employee Experience delivers.
In the moment appreciation and instant notifications to alert employees when someone has recognised them, all in a user-friendly and exciting app, which, quite frankly, could become a little addictive.
In addition to the recognition module, hassle-free access to all of their benefits via the same app helps improve your employees' way of life, and that doesn’t go unnoticed. The appreciated, valued and supported employee is among the most committed, driven and motivated to help your business succeed.
Access analytics to measure ROI and impact
We’re discussing how benefits and recognition engagement drive results and deliver an ROI. You need to be able to see how you’re tracking -- what the usage and engagement data is telling you, to know whether you’re meeting KPIs or need to implement some improvements.
We’re going to break tradition for a moment and switch to the first-person POV, because there is a human behind our blogs, and that’s me, Corin Chapman, Content Marketing Lead at Pluxee UK. Nice to meet you!
I’m going to spill the tea on a conversation I had recently with a colleague in HR. I told her I wanted to write a case study and needed data from the current recognition dashboard – the Pluxee Employee Experience – and our previous legacy platform. I can’t reveal what she said about the legacy data, but accessing it will involve IT support.
To be fair to the platform that served us well for many years, this is largely down to the fact that we’re no longer using it, and it isn’t necessarily a reflection on its functionality. Hope we cleared that up… just in case.
As for pulling a report from the Pluxee Employee Experience, the response was, “Oh, that’s really easy.”
We understand what data you need to make informed decisions, and we recognise that your HR teams are busy – ours are too. As much as we Pluxeers love using our employee experience app, our HR team is equally as fond, if not more, of the back-end usability, functionality and features.
How does the Pluxee Employee Experience reduce HR admin?
It isn’t only the ease of accessing data and pulling reports that makes the Pluxee Employee Experience platform an administrative dream.
Manage all benefits & rewards in one hub
Pluxee Employee Experience combines employee benefits, recognition and rewards into one platform, and even integrates benefits you have in place with other providers.
We designed Pluxee Employee Experience to alleviate HR headaches, not add to them. Simplicity and transparency meet to put you in control of your solution, whether that’s allocating rewards budgets to managers or monitoring how your employees are using their benefits; it’s all there in an intuitive dashboard that doesn’t require the help of IT to set up.
Reduce vendor complexity with a single integrated solution
You could shop around for the best price, buying packages from different providers to create an overarching benefits offering. It could, in theory, give you the best deal in terms of initial investment, but what’s the knock-on effect?
We’ll tell you.
The company providing a free employee discounts platform with your HR software isn’t motivated to encourage your employees to use it. They sell software. That’s what they want you to engage with -- the one they operate.
Likewise, the company providing you with mental health support isn’t invested in how engaged your employees are with your recognition platform because it’s not in their remit.
When you combine your entire offering in one place and with the same partner, they’re invested in every benefit you offer, and understand how, holistically, each element comes together to create an end-to-end wellbeing solution that delivers results.
Pluxee Employee Experience hasn’t changed the fact that we measure our success by yours.
Seamlessly manage & distribute bonuses, incentives, & wellbeing allowances
We’ve already shared how you can issue rewards points that employees can redeem against eVouchers or add funds to an employee’s Pluxee Card, but that’s not all. You can also embed our Pluxee Card into your channel incentives scheme.
Do you have a wellbeing fund? A lump sum you give employees to spend on their health, happiness and… sanity.
You can also distribute this through our employee experience platform, either as points they can redeem against an eVoucher or cash loaded onto their Pluxee Card. This seamless integration of benefits, rewards and discretionary wellbeing payments through one admin portal removes red tape and reduces HR administration.
The Pluxee Employee Experience platform & your CSR credentials
The commuter benefits available as part of the Pluxee Employee Experience boost your CSR credentials. Our Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes help your employees adopt eco-friendly ways of getting around. When they use a bike, an electric car or a low-emission vehicle to work, you can measure the C02 reduction against your business emissions.
Then there’s our Refurbished Tech scheme, which makes a range of high-quality refurbished phones, laptops, tablets and more, affordable for your employees. They can even repair, sell or trade in their current models.
We’ve shone a light on our Pluxee Card already, but what we’ve not told you is that it’s a virtual-first product – a digital payment card. There’s no need to request a physical card at all, but if you do choose to add one, we’ll produce it from 95% PVC.
Our eVoucher rewards are also a digital product – no paper, no plastic – just secure digital codes that live in your employees’ Pluxee Employee Experience app. They can even transfer them to their phone’s eWallet.
You can read more about sustainable employee benefits here: ‘Sustainable Business Practices: Eco-friendly Benefits’.
Why Pluxee Employee Experience is the smarter choice
You’re still here! Good, because as long as this article is, we’re not done yet. The details matter because we’re not the only business offering an employee experience platform. We’re OK with this because we’ve taken the time to learn from them, enabling us to provide something that better meets your people and business needs.
So, if we can keep your attention for a little longer, we’ll finish by wrapping up what makes the Pluxee Employee Experience platform the smarter choice.
Integrating benefits & rewards into one mobile-first platform: Everything in one place and at the touch of a button to help you make a genuine, positive difference to your employees' lives.
Personalised marketing: Each employee sets their marketing status and personal preferences, so they see the deals that matter most.
Reducing manual admin: Pluxee Employee Experiences gives you access to all your reports from one centralised hub, making HR admin a doddle.
Offering an optimal user experience: The app is so easy to use, intuitive yet simple, practical and yet exciting. From recognising colleagues to spending their rewards, making a saving or buying a new car, they can do it all at the touch of a button.
The best employee experience: The digital employee experience (a topic we’ll cover another time) affects the overall employee experience, and we’re giving you the user and admin tech that enhances both.
Personalised recognition & rewards: Recognition that’s meaningful to your employees based on the values that matter to your business – that’s what we’re delivering, powered by an unrivalled choice of inclusive rewards.
Demonstratable ROI: Our transparent reporting dashboard provides insight into recognition, rewards, and benefits engagement, enabling you to measure and report on the impact you're making.
No more wasted benefits: This one is a biggie. Underutilised and unused benefits are wasted benefits. Pluxee Employee Experience delivers the perks your people want and need in a simple and user-friendly package.
Inclusive of hybrid, remote & deskless workers: Pluxee Employee Experience unites your entire workforce. It provides peer-to-peer recognition that knows no boundaries, and gives every employee equal opportunity to access health, lifestyle-improving and money-saving perks.
Caters to all budgets: Pluxee Employee Experience starts with three core products, Pluxee Card, Recognition, and Discounts. From there, you can build in additional benefits, giving you flexibility and the opportunity for sustainable growth.
Nurture a positive workplace culture: Everything we’ve covered in this blog, everything the Pluxee Employee Experience platform offers, contributes towards creating an engaging, motivating and employee-retaining culture.
Thanks for sticking around for this deep dive into Pluxee Employee Experience. The only thing left to do is join us in making work not just a place to be but a place to belong.
FAQs
What is an employee experience platform?
An employee experience platform unifies employee benefits, recognition and rewards into one centralised hub.
What benefits do employees value most in the UK?
Employee discounts that offer savings on things employees actually need are one of the most popular employee benefits in the UK.
How can technology streamline benefits administration?
A Saas platform that unifies access to benefits administration, including changes, updates and reporting, removes the need to access multiple platforms, streamlining how your team runs your benefits and rewards programmes.
What are the benefits of streamlining?
Time and efficiency are two key perks of streamlining reward, recognition and benefits tech. As are transparency and the ability to measure the ROI.
Sources: HR Grapevine, MHFA England
Notes: *Contracts pending.
