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Salesforce’s $166 million investment in HiBob highlights the growing importance of connecting workforce data with business-performance information—a development that could create new opportunities for incentive, rewards and recognition companies able to integrate their programs with broader human capital and enterprise systems. Integrating customer and employee engagement is a next frontier of marketing and human resources. ... [ read more ]

The individual travel business continues its growth trajectory, propelled by multiple trends says the founder of one of the industry’s first individual travel firms. ... [ read more ]

New research finds a consistent gap between how HR leaders evaluate recognition programs and how employees experience them, with personalization, recovery time and individual travel emerging as important factors in perceived value.... [ read more ]

An experienced industry executives take on new leadership roles in the gift card field. ... [ read more ]

EY’s $100 million recognition initiative, together with other examples of companies directly rewarding specific contributions with cash or financial benefits, raises a question for the recognition business: what happens to the role of technology when management starts with the behaviors and outcomes it wants to reward?... [ read more ]

The growing RRN Impact Metrics Library provides practical resources for connecting incentives, recognition and engagement investments with measurable business outcomes.... [ read more ]

As recognition becomes another feature inside major HR systems, dedicated recognition companies face a fundamental question. If the technology becomes increasingly interchangeable, what value do they provide beyond the button on the screen?... [ read more ]

Gift cards became a dominant incentive reward starting in the 2000s in part because old merchandise catalogs could not deliver a modern shopping experience. Real-time catalog APIs, wholesale merchandise economics, and renewed interest in memorable rewards are changing that equation, creating a challenge—and an opportunity—for the gift card industry.... [ read more ]

Next Level Performance celebrates its 50th anniversary through an expanded community-service initiative, while Madison Global, itself more than 50 years old, adds experienced incentive industry marketer Agnes O’Connell to help drive its next stage of growth. ... [ read more ]

An Incentive Research Foundation study finds that effective reward and recognition strategies for hybrid and remote employees must go well beyond merchandise or cash to address autonomy, meaningful work, growth, manager appreciation, communications and connection.... [ read more ]