Praise that disappears
A thank-you in a chat thread scrolls away in minutes. There's no record, no visibility, and no way for the rest of the team to celebrate along.
Axero Employee Recognition
Make Recognition Part of How Your Team Works
Axero's Employee Recognition module is built into your intranet — run recognition programs, award badges and kudos, and celebrate wins where everyone already gathers. Available standalone or as part of the wider Axero platform.
200+
Ready-Made Badges
2-Way
Peer & Manager Recognition
Live
Leaderboards & Insights
See recognition live
Tell us how your team celebrates wins today. We'll show the same moment inside Axero.
- Recognition programs you set up and control
- 200+ ready-made badge designs, plus your own
- Peer-to-peer kudos and manager awards
- Leaderboards, points, and recognition insights
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Good Work Goes Unseen When Recognition Is an Afterthought
Recognition only does its job when people can see it. When it lives in a one-off chat message or an annual review, it disappears before the rest of the team ever knows it happened.
Top performers go unnoticed
Without a way to surface who's contributing, quiet high performers get overlooked and managers miss the moments worth rewarding.
Recognition you can't measure
When recognition isn't tracked, you can't see which teams are engaged, who is consistently being left out, or whether the program is landing at all.
An Employee Recognition Platform, Built Into the Intranet
As an employee recognition platform that lives inside your intranet, Axero lets anyone recognize a coworker, award a badge, and celebrate it in the activity stream. Set up recognition programs, define the badges that matter to your culture, and watch engagement build on a live leaderboard.
- "Recognize a coworker" in seconds — peer-to-peer or manager-led, with a personal message every time.
- Award Kudos badges and Challenge badges from programs you control.
- Choose from 200+ ready-made badge designs, or create your own.
- Track points, ranks, and a leaderboard of top contributors.
Recognition programs & badges
Everything You Need to Recognize and Reward
Programs you control, badges your team is proud to earn, and the data to see how they're landing.
Recognition Programs
Set up programs that define which badges, kudos, and challenges your team can give — with role-based control over who can grant them.
Badges
Award badges from an admin-managed catalog. Pick from 200+ ready-made designs or upload your own to match your culture.
Peer-to-Peer Kudos
Anyone can recognize a coworker with a Kudos badge and a personal message in seconds — no approval chain required.
Challenge Badges
Tie repeatable challenge badges to milestones and processes, so achievements are earned, not just handed out.
Leaderboards & Points
Points, status ranks from Starter to Guru, and a leaderboard you can filter by date range surface top contributors across the company.
Recognition Insights
Dashboards track kudos given and received, challenges completed, and earned badges — sliced by team and time period.
How it works
From a Quick Shout-Out to a Measurable Program
Recognition that's fast for employees and visible for everyone.
- 01
Set up a program
Define the badges, kudos, and challenges your team can give, and who can give them.
- 02
Recognize a coworker
Pick a person, choose a badge, and add a message — peer-to-peer or manager-led.
- 03
Celebrate in the open
Recognition posts to the activity stream and badges appear on the recipient's profile.
- 04
See what's working
Leaderboards and insights show engagement by team, badge, and time period.
See it in action
Badges, Kudos, and the Leaderboard
How kudos software and recognition programs look inside Axero.
What customers say
Recognition People Actually See
Why teams use Axero to celebrate people and strengthen workplace culture.
“Excellent security, customer service, and support drive internal participation and community engagement and are great tools for sharing resources, updates, and collaboration across the organization.”
Theresa M.
Earthjustice
“Axero provides a platform for our Non-Profit to stimulate conversations, cultivate our community, and engage our members.”
Janine J.
Executive Director, Electronic Music Alliance
“Axero allows us to get to know one another. It helps with our culture and community. We have a knowledge management system in Axero. Anything you need, you can find.”
Emily A.
Office Manager, Known
“So far, we are loving the Axero platform. It has so much power and flexibility. Our team is happy with the employee engagement features we can provide through our intranet site.”
Susanne D.
UCOR
“The level of customization is impressive! Intuitive design makes the software easy to use. It opened our eyes to the resources we have available to engage our people.”
Bryna B.
VP of Corporate Communications, Ohio Valley Bank
“With Axero, we host the TEDx community from around the world under one social platform. Axero's customer service is the best. We always have someone to answer our questions.”
Sina S.
Technical Program Manager, TED
Two ways to get it
Run It Standalone, or as Part of Your Axero Platform
Axero Employee Recognition is available as a standalone recognition app or as a fully integrated module of the wider Axero intranet platform.
Just Employee Recognition
Run Axero recognition as a standalone program for badges and kudos.
- Peer and manager recognition with badges
- 200+ ready-made badge designs plus custom badges
- Points, ranks, and a live leaderboard
- Recognition insights and reporting
Recognition + the full Axero intranet
Make recognition part of the homepage, profiles, and activity stream your team already uses.
- Recognition posts to the company activity stream
- Badges display on employee profiles and the directory
- One identity and permission model
- One vendor, one platform, one bill
Not sure which fits? We'll help you map it to your culture goals on a quick call.
Built for every stakeholder
One Recognition Program, Every Perspective Covered
HR & People
Build a culture of recognition.
Give every employee an easy way to celebrate coworkers — and the engagement data to show how the program is landing.
Managers
Catch and reward great work.
Recognize your team in the moment with badges and kudos that everyone can see.
Leadership
See engagement, not just sentiment.
Leaderboards and insights show engagement by team, badge, and period — what people actually do, alongside what a survey tells you they feel.
For admins and managers
How to Run a Recognition Program
Recognition software is the easy part. The decisions that determine whether a program lasts past the first quarter are about authority, design, and how you read the numbers — so here's what you actually control.
Decide who can give what
Granting authority is set per award, not globally. Out of the box any employee can give recognition, which is usually the right default. But you can restrict a specific award to managers or a leadership role while leaving everyday kudos open to everyone — so a peer-to-peer program and a manager-led award can run side by side without competing.
Name the awards after your values
Build your own award set with its own artwork, names, and descriptions, grouped into programs. A starter set ships with the platform, but the point is to replace it: an award called "Own It" or "Customer First" does more work than a generic gold star, because the name teaches the value every time someone gives it.
Delegate the program, not the admin rights
A program can have its own managers who edit it and add awards without full site-admin access. That matters for adoption — the person closest to a team's culture should be able to add an award without filing a ticket with IT.
Recognize participation, not just visibility
Challenge awards are earned automatically when someone hits a threshold of real activity — publishing, answering, commenting, or recognizing coworkers. They reward the people doing the quiet, consistent work, which is exactly the group a purely social program tends to miss.
Keep it from becoming a popularity contest
Two levers. Every award has a switch controlling whether it announces company-wide or stays between the recipient, the person recognizing them, and their connections — so quieter recognition is a first-class option. And the leaderboard can be scoped to a program, a space, a manager's own team, or a time window, or restricted by role, or removed entirely. A rolling 30-day board rewards current contribution; an all-time board mostly rewards tenure.
Read the data for gaps, not winners
Reporting covers recognition given and received per person, totals over time, and a filterable ledger you can export to CSV. The most useful view isn't the top of the leaderboard — it's the breakdown by department, location, or any profile attribute you track, which shows you the team nobody has recognized in two months. That's the number worth acting on.
Recognition is given and posted immediately — there's no approval queue between an employee and a thank-you. If your program needs sign-off before an award goes public, let's talk through how to structure it.
Why Axero Employee Recognition
Programs, badges, and a clear record in one place.
200+
Ready-made badge designs included
2-Way
Peer and manager recognition built in
1M+
Employees working on the Axero platform
Live
Leaderboards and recognition insights
Bring Recognition Into Your Intranet
Book a demo and we'll show recognition programs, badges, and the leaderboard in action.