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Recognition Feed: One shared space where your culture happens

Peer-to-peer recognition, team announcements and personal appreciations — value-aligned, reaction-friendly and visible to everyone who needs to see them. Available natively on web, mobile and inside Microsoft Teams, so appreciation meets people in their flow of work.

VALU Recognition Feed shown on a laptop dashboard and mobile app, displaying peer recognition messages tagged with company values

Recognition is everywhere — and yet, often invisible

Most appreciation already happens at work. A quick “thanks for staying late,” a chat message after a successful release, an email to the team after a difficult customer call. The problem isn’t that recognition is missing — it’s that it’s invisible to everyone except the recipient.

When recognition is private, you can’t tell whether it’s happening evenly, whether it ties back to your values, or whether the people quietly going above and beyond are actually being seen. Sporadic, one-to-one thanks isn’t a culture — it’s an inbox.

The Recognition Feed brings appreciation out of inboxes and into a shared, persistent space. The same moment of thanks is now visible to the team, tagged with the values it reinforces, and contributes to a cultural signal your organisation can actually measure.

More than just thanks

The Recognition Feed carries three distinct types of message, each designed to do something different for your culture.

Recognition

Aligned to your values

A peer or manager recognises specific behaviour, tagged with the company value it demonstrates. Optionally carries a monetary reward, delivered discreetly to the recipient. Builds a measurable signal of which values are alive in your organisation.

Announcement

One voice, everyone hears

Leaders, HR and team leads share organisational moments — promotions, project launches, policy changes — alongside the recognition activity. The same trusted feed that carries appreciation now carries the news employees actually need.

Appreciation

The everyday thank-you, captured

Lighter than a formal recognition, with no value-tag or reward — but still public, still acknowledged, still part of the cultural record. The “thanks for covering my shift” moment that would otherwise have lived only in a chat window.

Key Benefits

Real-Time Updates

See recognitions as they happen. Every achievement is shared instantly across your organisation, keeping everyone connected and engaged.

Value-Aligned Recognition

Every recognition is tagged with the company value it reinforces, so the feed actively reflects (and measures) the behaviours that matter most to your organisation.

Smart Filtering

Focus on what matters most. Filter by site, department, team or individual to see the recognitions most relevant to you.

Reactions & Likes

Emoji reactions and likes let the whole team join in. Recognition doesn’t stay between two people — it becomes a shared cultural moment.

Milestone Celebrations

Automatically celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries and long service achievements. Never miss an important moment.

Native in Microsoft Teams

The same feed appears identically in Teams, on the web and on mobile — so recognition meets every employee in whichever workspace they already use, without context-switching.

One feed, every surface

Recognition only works if it meets people where they already are. The same Recognition Feed appears, identically, across every surface your team uses.

Web

Full feed in the browser for desk-based teams, HR admins and managers running reports.

Mobile

Native iOS and Android apps so frontline and field-based employees can give and receive recognition wherever they are.

Microsoft Teams

The feed natively inside Teams — for organisations whose culture already lives there, recognition shouldn’t require switching context.

Kiosk & Display Board

Live recognition activity on screens in receptions, break rooms and shop floors. Learn more →

How It Works

1

Send Recognition

Quickly recognise a colleague with a personalised message aligned to your company values.

2

Instant Notification

Your colleague receives an instant notification, making them feel valued and appreciated.

3

Shared Celebration

The recognition appears in the feed for everyone to see, celebrating success openly.

4

Build Culture

Over time, recognitions build a culture of appreciation and reinforce your company values.

Built for the way you actually work

Multi-site organisations

Site-specific filters keep each location’s feed relevant, while organisation-wide views give leaders the big picture. No more disconnected pockets of culture between offices, warehouses or retail estates.

Frontline & shift-based teams

Mobile-first design and the Kiosk display board mean employees without dedicated desks still see and participate in recognition — on their phone, or as they walk past a screen in the break room.

Hybrid & remote teams

The Microsoft Teams integration brings recognition into the channels distributed colleagues already work in. No extra tab, no extra login, no “please remember to use the recognition tool”.

Why a feed beats an inbox

Email thanks

  • Visible only to the recipient — and quickly buried
  • No alignment to company values
  • Impossible to measure or report on
  • No way to attach a reward, or only via separate processes
  • Teamwide moments stay siloed in 1:1 inboxes
  • Mobile, web and Teams users have different experiences

Recognition Feed

  • Shared, persistent and searchable across the organisation
  • Every recognition tagged with the value it reinforces
  • Real-time analytics on who, what and how often
  • Optional monetary rewards delivered seamlessly and discreetly
  • Team-based recognition built in for collective moments
  • Identical experience on web, mobile, Teams and Kiosk

Frequently asked questions

How is a recognition feed different to email or chat thanks?

Email and chat thanks vanish into inboxes seen only by the recipient. The Recognition Feed surfaces every appreciation in a shared, persistent space, so contributions stay visible and the patterns of who recognises whom become measurable rather than anecdotal.

Can recognitions be tied to our company values?

Yes. Every recognition is value-tagged at the point of giving, so the feed actively reinforces the behaviours your organisation has defined as important. Administrators can see which values are most frequently recognised and where reinforcement is needed.

Does the Recognition Feed work in Microsoft Teams?

Yes. The same feed is available natively inside Microsoft Teams, on the web, on iOS and Android mobile apps, and through the VALU Kiosk display board — so recognition meets employees in whichever workspace they already live in.

Can rewards be attached to a recognition?

Authorised users can attach a discretionary monetary reward to a recognition message. The reward is delivered to the recipient discreetly through a secure email workflow, keeping the public message about appreciation rather than the amount.

How does the feed handle multi-site or shift-based teams?

Smart filters let users focus the feed by site, department, team or individual. Frontline workers can see recognition relevant to their location and shift; senior leaders can see organisation-wide activity. The Kiosk view shows live recognition on signage in shared spaces.

Is recognition data private and secure?

Recognition messages are visible to the intended audience based on your organisation’s configuration. Monetary reward values are kept private to the giver, recipient and administrator. Data is held on UK infrastructure and protected by enterprise-grade security.

Ready to make your culture visible?

See how VALU’s Recognition Feed brings appreciation, announcements and rewards into one shared space — on web, mobile and inside Microsoft Teams.

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