What’s New With the World’s Most Complete Recognition Solution: Q2 2026

With O.C. Tanner, you can reach everyone, everywhere with the world’s most complete recognition solution. With our growing suite of tech integrations, strong partnerships with market-leading innovators, and new features to delight your employees, you’ve got more ways to engage and delight your people.

Reach More People Seamlessly with Integrations

We bring recognition to your employees, right where they are. Our growing suite of best-in-class integrations ensures recognition keeps flowing without disruption.

Native Workday Integration

Companies with integrated recognition have 11x increased odds of employees feeling included and 81% decreased odds of employee burnout. With O.C. Tanner’s native Workday Integration, employees can participate in meaningful recognition directly within the HR system they already rely on. Built with Workday Extend and powered by O.C. Tanner’s Culture Cloud®, this integration allows your team to give and receive social recognition without leaving Workday. Recognition feels native, intuitive, and visible—embedded seamlessly into daily workflows, instead of logging in to a separate platform. The result is higher participation, less friction, and recognition that naturally becomes part of how work gets done.

For HR and business leaders, this integration does more than add convenience—it helps scale culture. By keeping recognition in the flow of work, organizations can highlight everyday moments that reinforce values, build connection, and shape behavior. Culture becomes easier to see, share, and sustain, while IT and HR gain confidence in a secure, enterprise-ready solution built to grow. With Culture Cloud for Workday, recognition becomes a natural part of the employee experience, helping organizations create a more connected, authentic culture where people feel seen and valued.

Teams: Recognition During Meetings

Great work often happens during meetings, so why not recognize it in the moment? Now you can, with the ability to give recognition during Microsoft Teams meetings. Culture Cloud makes it easy to give a shout out in real time, while teams are together and engaged.

37% of employees use platform integrations in the flow of their work, and Microsoft Teams is a top collaboration tool for enterprise organizations. Now employees can use Culture Cloud directly from the Teams meeting side panel to send meaningful recognition on the spot, no separate app required.

Recognition can happen at the moment contribution is seen, leaders maintain control, and appreciation becomes a shared, visible experience. By bringing recognition into live meetings, Culture Cloud helps organizations reinforce culture in the moments that matter most—turning collaboration into connection.

Slack Integration

Recognition should live where work happens. Employees are 4x as likely to recognize peers when the program is easy to access, and 5x as likely when it is simple to use. With Culture Cloud’s enhanced Slack integration, appreciation isn’t just easy to give—it’s visible, shared, and reinforced across teams. Recognition shows up in Slack channels and notifications, turning everyday moments into cultural touchpoints that strengthen connection and engagement, without leaving the flow of work.

By bringing recognition into shared Slack spaces, organizations reinforce what great work looks like in real time. Teams see, react to, and build on moments of appreciation together—amplifying impact without adding friction. The result is a stronger, more connected culture that shows up naturally in the tools employees already use every day.

Celebration at Its Best

O.C. Tanner gives you more ways to celebrate your employees than anyone else in the recognition industry.

Never Miss a Birthday

74% of employees say personalized messages of appreciation make recognition, including birthdays, more valuable. Birthday Notifications help managers recognize employees at the right moment by sending configurable reminders of upcoming birthdays. It’s a simple way to make birthday recognition more timely and personal, without the extra work of manual tracking or administrative overhead.

Delight Employees with Gift Pairing

When recognition experiences include custom gifts, the probability of connection with the team and the company increases by 4x. Gift Pairing allows employees to choose a personalized combination of gifts from two predefined categories in a Holiday or other Special Event Store. Regular, meaningful recognition—including holiday gifts and the ability to choose—creates a sense of belonging and loyalty. Recognition moments are especially impactful when they occur throughout the year. With Gift Pairing, you can deliver more meaningful and memorable award experiences without sacrificing budget control and operational simplicity.