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Tag: Employee Morale

How to Measure the Annual Employee Survey

Professional infographic for Fun Intended titled “How to Measure Employee Engagement (Beyond the Annual Survey)” featuring a smiling employee at a desk surrounded by engagement metrics including pulse surveys, one on one conversations, continuous feedback, behavior and recognition, and people analytics. The Fun Intended logo and brand colors are incorporated throughout the design.

Here’s a scenario that plays out in organizations every day. The annual employee engagement survey goes out in November. Results come back in January. Leadership reviews the data, builds a PowerPoint, shares some highlights with the team in February, and puts together an action plan that gets half-implemented by April. Meanwhile, three of your best […]

The Best Employee Engagement Survey Questions to Ask

Creative flat lay style infographic for Fun Intended titled “The Best Employee Engagement Survey Questions to Ask” featuring a clipboard with employee survey questions, a coffee mug, sticky note, pen, and playful workplace doodles on a dark blue desk background.

Most companies know they should be surveying their employees. Fewer companies know how to ask the right questions. The difference matters more than it sounds. A poorly designed survey gives you data that feels comprehensive but points nowhere. Vague questions produce vague answers. Leading questions produce polite answers. And a survey that asks about everything […]

What the Best Places to Work Have in Common

Modern infographic for Fun Intended titled “What the Best Places to Work Have in Common” featuring a diverse team collaborating around a laptop beside a colorful circular diagram highlighting workplace culture traits including trust, communication, growth, recognition, purpose, and employee value.

Every year, lists of the best places to work get published, studied, and shared. The names on them tend to be impressive. But the more useful question is not who made the list. It is why. What do the organizations that consistently land on these rankings actually do differently? And more importantly, is it something […]

Career Pathing Framework That Keeps Employees Around

Real employees progressing through career stages with mentorship and growth opportunities in a modern workplace to represent career pathing framework

People leave futures they can’t picture. That’s the part most organizations miss. When an employee starts updating their LinkedIn profile, or scheduling mysterious lunch appointments, the instinct is to ask what went wrong recently. But the real question is usually what they stopped believing months ago. A Pew Research survey found that 63% of individuals […]

5 Signs You Have a Toxic Company Culture

Stressed employee sitting at a desk in a dark office while coworkers appear tense in the background, representing the warning signs of Toxic Company Culture.

Here’s something worth sitting with… Toxic company culture is 10 times more predictive of employee turnover than compensation. It’s not the pay or the benefits or the scheduling. It’s the culture. Wait…there’s gotta be an acronym we can come up with for this. It’s culture killing, stupid (ICKS). Nah, that’s no good. I’ll keep working on […]

Why Your Employee Recognition Program Fails (And How to Fix It)

Illustration showing why your employee recognition program fails and how to fix it, with a split office scene comparing a broken recognition system on one side and a thriving peer kudos workplace culture on the other.

Roughly 80% of employers have some form of employee recognition program in place. So why do 65% of employees still say they don’t feel adequately recognized at work? Your employee recognition program fails because of the gap between design and execution. That gap tells the whole story. Recognition spending in the US has ballooned into a […]

Top 10 Best Rewards and Recognition Platforms in 2026

Best Rewards and Recognition Platforms image featuring a gold trophy on an office desk surrounded by icons for rewards, engagement, retention, recognition, and performance, representing the top employee recognition software platforms in 2026.

Employee recognition has quietly become one of the more consequential decisions a company makes. Not the splashy annual awards dinner, but the everyday stuff: a peer giving a shoutout, a manager acknowledging a win before it gets buried in the next sprint. The platforms that do this well have a measurable effect on morale, retention, […]

How Gamification Transformed Employee Engagement for a Texas-Based Call Center

Call center employee celebrating at her desk with gamification elements like leaderboards and challenges on screen, illustrating how gamification transformed employee engagement at a Texas-based call center, with a subtle TAS United logo on the left.

Call centers are notoriously tough places to work. High stress, repetitive tasks, and limited career visibility make them breeding grounds for burnout and turnover. So when a Texas-based call center managed to slash its employee turnover rate by 82% in just 12 months, it turned heads. The secret? A comprehensive employee engagement strategy with gamification […]

Real Stats That Prove Gamification Improves Company Revenue

Infographic showing statistics on how gamification improves company revenue with employee engagement, productivity, retention, and performance metrics displayed in a workplace setting

Gamification has quietly become one of the most effective ways to improve employee performance and engagement. What used to feel like a novelty is now backed by real data that shows measurable impact across entire organizations. Bottom line: Gamification improves company revenue. For example, a study highlighted by AmplifAI found that companies implementing gamification have seen engagement […]

The Top Gamification Platforms in 2026

3D illustration representing Top gamification platforms with employees engaging in points, leaderboards, and rewards systems to drive performance and motivation

Employee engagement continues to evolve, and gamification has become one of the most effective ways to capture attention, drive participation, and improve performance across teams. Organizations that implement gamification see up to a 48% increase in employee engagement. In this article, we highlight the top gamification platforms in 2026, giving you a clear view of […]