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April 18, 2022
Three Reasons Why Warren Buffet's 5/25 Rule May Be Just What You Need for Productivity

Have you tried implementing the 5/25 rule for your productivity yet?

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5 Key Employee Engagement KPIs You Must Track in 2026

Tracking these five key employee engagement KPIs will not only give you a way to measure your efforts and give valuable insights.

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Case Study: How UpKeep brings their culture of gratitude into a remote world with Assembly

Assembly’s engagement platform made appreciation and recognition second nature to UpKeep’s dispersed team.

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How to Write a Successful Project Plan in 5 Easy Steps

If you want a project to come in on time and on budget, you’re going to need a plan.

Josh Purvis
June 8, 2022
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The One-on-One Meeting Template You Need

One-on-one meetings are the bread and butter of management. Here is how to make them useful and productive for everyone involved.

Josh Purvis
June 2, 2022
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How to Give and Take Constructive Criticism: 5 Methods for Success

Constructive criticism is a useful tool in the workplace, but it can be difficult to provide. Learn the ways to make it easier.

Josh Purvis
May 23, 2022
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Goals vs Objectives: Understanding the Difference

Understanding the difference between goals and objectives is key to achieving your ambitions as quickly as possible. Here's what

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May 23, 2022
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25 Qualities of a Good Employee That Drive Performance

A practical guide for HR leaders and managers to identify the qualities of a good employee, and use them to recognize and nurture

Manju Barathi
March 18, 2026
Internal Communications

Virtual Meeting Etiquette: How to Build Respect, Recognition, and Engagement in Remote Teams

A practical guide to running virtual meetings that keep everyone engaged, recognized, and connected.

Jonathan Fields
March 9, 2026
Internal Communications

How to Run Effective One-on-One Meetings (With Real Examples and Templates)

A practical guide for managers and HR leaders to run one-on-one meetings that improve engagement, retention, and trust.

Jonathan Fields
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Women In Leadership: Barriers At Work And How Organizations Can Remove Them

Learn why women in leadership still face systemic barriers at work and what HR teams can do to close the gap.

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Four Ways Managers Can Effectively Use Recognition

Recognition is a necessary action and tool to be a successful manager. Here are four ways to effectively use it for your team.

Katya Hill
November 15, 2024
Employee Engagement & Culture

How to Show the Five Professional Love Languages in the Workplace

Learn the 5 professional love languages to boost workplace relationships, enhance engagement, and create a positive work culture.

Katya Hill
February 27, 2025
Employee Engagement & Culture

Tips for Maximizing Performance Reviews

Performance reviews can be essential for employee motivation and growth. But how do you make them good?

Katya Hill
March 10, 2022
Employee Recognition

5 Fun & Easy Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day (With FREE Templates)

Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day with fun and easy-to-implement ideas. Make it a day to remember with these top strategies.

Katya Hill
February 15, 2022
Employee Engagement & Culture

Daily Standup: Go beyond just standing up

Teams are moving to the idea of needing to connect and check-in with each other consistently. See what to do and what to avoid

Katya Hill
January 25, 2022
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Top 4 Tips to Getting Organized in 2022

Whether or not you are big on new year resolutions, it is always a good idea to get organized, structured, and elevate your work.

Katya Hill
January 10, 2022
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How to Run a 1:1 in a Startup

One-on-one's are essential to any team's success. Check out our CEO's tips for 1:1s that work.

Jonathan Fields
January 5, 2022
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3 Lessons Every Manager Can Learn From Ted Lasso

Explore three management tips we learned from Ted Lasso along with free templates to help you elevate your workplace culture.

Katya Hill
January 9, 2025
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Why one-on-one meetings should be a manager’s secret weapon (and why they’re usually not)

One-on-one meetings should be a manager’s secret weapon. So why do they so frequently miss the mark?

Josh Purvis
December 6, 2021
Employee Engagement & Culture

Workflow automation helps maximize your most valuable resource – your time.

This might change in the future but as of now, time is the only non-renewable resource. You may have never thought about time...

Josh Purvis
November 16, 2020
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301 Icebreaker Questions For Work to Build Meaningful Work Relationships

Build better coworker relationships with small steps, meaningful conversations, and icebreakers to boost engagement at work.

Josh Purvis
November 9, 2021
Remote & Hybrid Work

How to Manage & Engage Employees in a Hybrid Workplace

We have all been pushed into the inevitable dilemma of managing and engaging employees in our new hybrid workplace reality.

Brett Knowles
September 23, 2021
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Product Team Q&A: How to Align Your Team with Flows

Meet Josh, Katya, and Brooke - part of an incredibly skilled and busy product team. Managing everything..

Jonathan Fields
September 16, 2021
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Get the Most Out of Exit Surveys

Let’s face it - whether employees leave voluntarily or not, exit surveys and interviews can be somewhat awkward

Josh Purvis
September 3, 2021
Employee Engagement & Culture

A Modern Intranet is Your New Digital Workplace

Intranet historically has not been a cool, up-to-date concept. The reputation of intranets has never been great but instead

Josh Purvis
August 31, 2021
Employee Listening & Surveys

Quick Hacks: How to Build 360° Survey that Doesn't Suck

What are the first words that come to mind when you hear: "360° survey"? Is it UGHHH? If so, then let's change that. Here are...

Connor Hoy
August 20, 2021
Employee Engagement & Culture

5 Tips to Make One-on-Ones Successful

Having a regular one-on-one with your employee or manager is very underrated. On the one hand - why have regular one-on-ones when

Josh Purvis
August 19, 2021
Internal Communications

How to Improve Internal Communications with Executive Announcements

How often does it happen that the bigger the company gets, the more disconnected management is from the employees?

Jonathan Fields
July 21, 2021
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Employee Nominations Are Now Easier Than Ever

What could feel better than when your coworkers recognize all the hard work you've done? Only when it happens consistently...

Connor Hoy
July 19, 2021
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The Four Forms of Motivation

Understand the science behind motivation & learn how to inspire employees using four key motivation styles for workplace success.

Jonathan Fields
February 27, 2025
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How to Engage Disengaged Employees

Employee disengagement is a workplace epidemic. One study found that disengaged employees cost US organizations $450 billion...

Jonathan Fields
May 5, 2021
Employee Engagement & Culture

Using Gamification in the Workplace to Increase Employee Engagement

Learn how to use games and rewards to drive performance and build stronger teams. Boost employee engagement with gamification.

Connor Hoy
April 7, 2021
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How to Celebrate Work Anniversaries Remotely


Work anniversaries are the most common form of employee recognition across industries. Let’s take a look at a few ways to...

Jonathan Fields
April 7, 2021
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Why Company Core Values Are Important and How to Reinforce Them

Your company's core values serve as the North Star for employees, guiding each person to make the best decisions for your busi...

Josh Purvis
March 29, 2021
Employee Engagement & Culture

How To Motivate Employees Without Money

A 2017 study by the Incentive Research Foundation found that 80-90 percent of high-performing organizations used non-cash rewa...

Connor Hoy
March 19, 2021
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How to Effectively Recognize Good Employee Performance

Boosting employee engagement with effective recognition! Learn how consistency, personalization, and strategy drive results.

Connor Hoy
January 23, 2025
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How to use Microsoft Teams for Employee Recognition and Engagement

Employee recognition and engagement go hand-in-hand, luckily Microsoft Teams makes it easy to succeed in both areas. Here's how!

Connor Hoy
March 8, 2021
Employee Recognition

Considering an Employee Recognition Program? Start Here!

From verbal thank-yous to creative awards and peer recognition, foster a culture of engagement and recognition in your workplace.

Jonathan Fields
November 15, 2024
Employee Recognition

Why Employee Recognition Day Matters Every Day

Learn the importance of year-round employee recognition and how consistent appreciation boosts team morale and productivity.

Jonathan Fields
December 5, 2024
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5 Free Employee Recognition Ideas You Can Implement Today

One of the most effective and least costly ways to reduce turnover is by building a culture of employee recognition. The good...

Connor Hoy
February 13, 2024
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Showing Employee Appreciation

Show employee appreciation with these meaningful recognition, budget-friendly ideas, and peer-to-peer engagement strategies.

Connor Hoy
February 10, 2025
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How a Culture of Engagement Can Boost Talent Acquisition

Work is a major part of our lives. We spend up to 30 percent of our lives at our jobs. This is about the same percentage as we...

Connor Hoy
January 7, 2020
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Top 16 Ways to Motivate Employees

People are at the center of every business regardless of the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence. Profits, productivi...

Josh Purvis
February 13, 2020
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Questions to Ask Before You Begin an Employee Appreciation Program

Learn how to show employee appreciation and improve engagement with simple and budget-friendly strategies you can implement now.

Connor Hoy
October 24, 2019
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HR Secrets Unlocked: How to create & maintain a healthy culture!

Your internal company culture is your work environment, expectations of your employees/peers, values; which also defines how...

Jonathan Fields
November 16, 2019
Employee Engagement & Culture

Employee Turnover Costs Are Expensive -You Can Do Something

Employee turnover cost is talked about so frequently but rarely acted upon, typically for the reason that many in leadership...

Josh Purvis
March 7, 2022
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Recharge before burnout

This year has forced many of us to reframe what “work/life balance” means for our lives. Whether we’re living at home with a...

Marissa Morrison
December 16, 2020
Employee Engagement & Culture

The good fight and why you should encourage conflict in your workplace.

This is likely the exact opposite of what you’d expect to hear from a recognition and engagement company. While we indeed prom...

Josh Purvis
November 13, 2020
Employee Engagement & Culture

Team Building During A Pandemic

You miss the days when you could play bubble soccer with your teammates (if you haven't played, I highly recommend it for a go...

Josh Purvis
October 24, 2020
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What Makes Recognition Meaningful?

Transform your workplace and start building a culture of recognition with these actionable employee engagement tips and insights.

Marissa Morrison
October 15, 2020
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Unsure How To Take Advantage of the Employee Retention Credit? Find Out How It Works and If Your Business Qualifies

The Employee Retention Credit under the CARES Act encourages businesses to keep employees on their payroll. The refundable tax...

Josh Purvis
September 20, 2020
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Automate your setup by integrating Slack or Office 365 with Assembly

Ever wish life was more like The Jetsons? Simpler, more automated? Beyond all the very fun inventions yet to be realized - fly...

Connor Hoy
August 10, 2020
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Work from Home Productivity Tips

The work environment continues to evolve, change, and adapt according to the times and the workforce landscape. Traditionally...

Connor Hoy
June 1, 2020
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How to Use Slack to Create a Positive Work Culture

Learn how to use Slack to boost employee engagement, foster a sense of community, and recognize your workplace's hard work.

Connor Hoy
April 28, 2020
Remote & Hybrid Work

Embracing Telework: Building a Strong Culture with Your Remote Team

Good team culture is much like a good sports team. You have a rockstar team that is ready to jump in through thick and thin...

Jonathan Fields
April 24, 2020
Remote & Hybrid Work

Working from Home – How to Engage Employees & Build Your Culture Virtually

During this time of uncertainty with the impact of COVID-19, and the daily influx of new information on this crisis, it is imp...

Connor Hoy
April 20, 2020
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We're Evolving

We are proud to announce the launch of our new company name and logo as part of the ongoing evolution of our company’s mission...

Josh Purvis
June 24, 2019
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Communication, what is it good for? Absolutely everything…

It turns out communication is pretty important. At work, it’s vital to the success of the business. But you already knew that...

Connor Hoy
April 25, 2019
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Why Bill Gates loves employee appreciation so much?

Employees (Happy Employees) are the key to business success. Finding the talent required to achieve success in today’s competi...

Jonathan Fields
March 22, 2019
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Why Transparency Fans the Flames of Purpose

Transparency, as it pertains to behavior, implies openness, communication, and accountability. It says “I trust you and I valu...

Josh Purvis
February 14, 2019
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Is Employee Recognition in the Workplace Worth It?

Learn about the lasting effects and top benefits of integrating employee recognition regularly into your company culture.

Jonathan Fields
December 4, 2018
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Finding a Job You Love: The Power of Recognition in the Workplace

Enhance workplace productivity through employee recognition programs. Acknowledging efforts will transform your company culture!

Connor Hoy
August 7, 2023
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We are SOC 2 Type I compliant and will continue to invest and keep your organization's data safe and secure.

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25 Qualities of a Good Employee That Drive Performance

A practical guide for HR leaders and managers to identify the qualities of a good employee, and use them to recognize and nurture

Manju Barathi
March 18, 2026
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Virtual Meeting Etiquette: How to Build Respect, Recognition, and Engagement in Remote Teams

A practical guide to running virtual meetings that keep everyone engaged, recognized, and connected.

Jonathan Fields
March 9, 2026
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How to Run Effective One-on-One Meetings (With Real Examples and Templates)

A practical guide for managers and HR leaders to run one-on-one meetings that improve engagement, retention, and trust.

Jonathan Fields
February 27, 2026
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Women In Leadership: Barriers At Work And How Organizations Can Remove Them

Learn why women in leadership still face systemic barriers at work and what HR teams can do to close the gap.

Jonathan Fields
February 17, 2026

31 Employee Recognition Awards That Actually Drive Engagement in 2026

A practical guide to employee recognition awards with 31 ideas, best practices, and common mistakes to avoid.

Jonathan Fields
February 10, 2026
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9 Best Employee Engagement Software For Remote Teams in 2026

A practical comparison of the best remote employee engagement platforms for building connection, participation, and culture.

Jonathan Fields
February 3, 2026
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Assembly Joins Quantum Workplace to Power Recognition as Part of a Connected Talent Platform

Assembly is now part of Quantum Workplace, connecting recognition with engagement, performance, and talent insights.

Manju Barathi
January 27, 2026
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How to Create an Employee Loyalty Program

A practical guide to building an employee loyalty program that improves retention, engagement, and long-term commitment.

Billie Hollingsworth
January 27, 2026
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Top 10 Employee Recognition Software of 2026 (Compared by Team Type)

A practical comparison of the best employee recognition platforms HR teams use in 2026.

Jonathan Fields
January 26, 2026
Internal Communications

How to Say No to Your Manager Without Sounding Uncooperative

Learn how to say no at work professionally while setting clear boundaries and avoiding burnout.

Jonathan Fields
January 17, 2026
Manager & Leadership Enablement

Why Mentorship Fails Without Recognition (and How to Fix It)

Learn why mentorship programs quietly fail without recognition and how HR teams can fix it with consistent and appreciation.

Jonathan Fields
January 13, 2026
Employee Recognition

The Role of Recognition in Gen Z Employee Retention

Employee recognition helps keep Gen Z employees motivated, engaged, and loyal by making them feel valued at work.

Jonathan Fields
January 10, 2026