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The Frontline Service Awards Checklist
Do your service awards actually reach the people who earned them?
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Most service awards programs were built for a corporate office
Most of your workforce doesn't sit in one.
Awards get shipped to a head office the recipient has never visited. Announcements go out by company email to people who don't have one. Anniversary dates live in a spreadsheet somebody has to remember to open. And the first milestone doesn't arrive until year five, long after most frontline employees have already come and gone.
This one-page checklist holds your current approach against the 6 things that make service awards actually work for shift-based teams. It takes two minutes to run through, and most teams are surprised by their score.
Median tenure with a single employer is just 3.9 years, and 22% of workers have been on the job a year or less.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employee Tenure Survey
Two minutes now, or another year of milestones nobody noticed
Score your program against the six things that make service awards work for shift-based and mixed teams. Most programs check fewer than half, and every unchecked box is a milestone that passed without anyone saying a word.
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