What’s New With the World’s Most Complete Recognition Solution: Q3 2026

Take your global recognition strategy to the next level with O.C. Tanner’s Culture Cloud®, the most complete recognition solution on the market. Go beyond individual moments of appreciation to create robust systems to honor meaningful experiences that connect employees from the frontline to the office, strengthen leadership around the world, and build culture every day.

From a new Kudoboard partnership to an array of company gifting options, we have more ways than ever to celebrate and connect teams in Culture Cloud. We’re also giving leaders more integrations to bring recognition directly into important collaboration tools where work happens.

More Ways to Celebrate and Connect

Some of your employees' most meaningful moments happen outside of formal performance recognition. They're also the celebrations that make people feel seen as individuals. A new baby. A retirement. A major company milestone. A holiday celebration. These moments create connection, strengthen culture, and remind employees they belong.

This quarter, O.C. Tanner is making it easier than ever to celebrate people at every stage of the employee experience. With new capabilities for collaborative life-event celebrations and expanded companywide gifting solutions, organizations have more ways to create meaningful experiences that bring people together.

O.C. Tanner x Kudoboard Partnership

Not every meaningful moment fits inside a traditional recognition program. Life events and important personal moments often require a different kind of experience, one that invites people to participate together.

We’re excited to share our new preferred partnership with the digital celebration platform, Kudoboard, which helps organizations turn individual moments into shared celebrations. Through collaborative digital boards within the Culture Cloud recognition experience, employees will be able to create celebrations and contribute messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and well-wishes for birthdays, farewells, family milestones, retirements, and other life events.

By making group celebrations more visible, inclusive, and scalable, our new Kudoboard capability can help your organization strengthen connection and create memorable experiences that employees value long after the moment has passed.

O.C. Tanner research shows that celebrating life events and other personal milestones outside of formal recognition is a powerful way to show care, build community, and enhance workplace culture. These moments help employees feel valued as individuals, less as "achievements to reward" and more as "moments to connect."

Company Event Gifting Solutions

Companywide celebrations are some of the most visible culture-building moments an organization creates, and an opportunity to reach every one of your employees. Yet, delivering meaningful experiences across thousands of employees requires balancing budget, personalization, speed, fulfillment, and scale.

Exclusive to O.C. Tanner, Company Event Gifting Solutions is the industry’s most comprehensive offering, bringing our extensive event gifting capabilities together in a unified framework designed to help organizations find the best solution for every occasion. Whether celebrating holidays, company milestones, appreciation events, anniversaries, or brand achievements, organizations can choose from a range of gifting experiences that meet the needs of your audience and event.

Event gifting is a powerful way to celebrate special occasions in the workplace. When thoughtfully chosen and delivered, these gifts reinforce organizational culture, strengthen relationships, and make employees feel valued (GCR 2021, GCR 2025).

From curated digital rewards and gift experiences to branded merchandise and large-scale custom gifting programs, O.C. Tanner gives you the flexibility to create recognition experiences that fit the moment, while maintaining consistency and operational simplicity. The result is a more intentional approach to celebrations that helps employees feel valued while aligning gift experiences to timelines, event depth, and budget.

Recognition Where Work Happens

Recognition works best when it happens in the moment. The closer appreciation is to the work itself, the more visible, timely, and meaningful it becomes. With the most expansive enterprise integrations on the market, O.C. Tanner helps you reach workers across the frontline, in remote geographies, and distributed work environments. As organizations continue to rely on collaboration platforms to connect teams, O.C. Tanner is integrating recognition directly into the tools employees use every day, including Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

When recognition is easy to access and part of daily work, it happens more often and has a greater impact on culture, trust, retention, and performance.

Bringing the Culture Cloud Social Feed into Microsoft Teams

Recognition already happens in Microsoft Teams, but employees can now upgrade their experience by integrating the Culture Cloud Social Feed directly within Teams.

With this new enhancement, recognition activity is surfaced where employees collaborate every day. Team members can view, celebrate, like, and comment on recognition without leaving Teams, making appreciation more visible and accessible within the flow of work.

In addition, employees can send recognition during Teams meetings, allowing appreciation to happen in the moment contributions are seen. Leaders can reinforce desired behaviors in real time, teams gain greater visibility into meaningful achievements, and recognition becomes an immediate shared experience instead of something that happens after the fact.

By extending Culture Cloud's Social Feed into Teams, organizations can increase visibility, participation, and engagement while creating a more connected culture of appreciation.

Culture Cloud Recognition in Zoom

Employees can now access Culture Cloud directly within Zoom meetings and webinars, bringing recognition into one of the world's most widely used collaboration platforms.

The new Zoom integration makes it easy to recognize contributions as they happen, without leaving the meeting experience. Employees can share appreciation in the moment, helping recognition feel more timely, authentic, and connected to the work being discussed.

For organizations with distributed teams or Zoom-centric collaboration environments, the integration extends Culture Cloud into another key workplace while maintaining a consistent recognition experience, centralized reporting, and program governance.

The result is less context switching, more opportunities for meaningful recognition, and a stronger culture of appreciation wherever work happens.

Integrated recognition leads to higher trust, stronger collaboration, and lower turnover.
—2026 State of Recognition report, O.C. Tanner Institute

Do more with O.C. Tanner

O.C. Tanner recognition offers so much more than individual moments of appreciation. We provide an entire ecosystem for creating meaningful experiences that connect people, support leaders, and build cultures where people want to stay.