New Year, New G2 Badges! Celebrating Our Winter 2024 Wins

Let’s pop champagne! We’re celebrating Cooleaf’s achievement as an award-winning employee recognition software, receiving 26 G2 badges for Winter 2024!  It is a huge testament to our hard work developing an experience platform that helps organizations foster stronger company culture.

Cooleaf’s on a mission to elevate the employee experience, whether that’s through engaging in online activities that support your business or core values, or if it’s bringing the right incentives and awards to motivate your people. Our goal is to set teams up for success so each individual employee feels a true sense of connection with their organization and work.

It goes beyond a recognition program. Studies show us that high-performing teams receive nearly six times more positive feedback than less effective teams. And happier workplaces have better retention and stronger business overall.

These G2 badges recognize Cooleaf team members’ efforts as we combine tech and strategy to employee engagement for small businesses and corporations.

What does a G2 Badge mean?

G2 is the largest Saas marketplace providing authentic peer reviews in any industry. Business leaders from startups to Fortune 500 companies utilize G2 to make informed buying decisions on pricing, experience, and features, so they know that they’re investing in the right tech for their needs.

G2 Badges mean so much more because the reviews come from real users, and badges are a big mark of excellence, determined by this real world feedback, features, and market presence calculated against an app’s competitors. The overall ratings have so much value for prospective human resource teams or business leaders looking for their next app.

"We’re honored to be named a ‘Leader’ by G2 and to be consistently recognized by our customers for improving employee recognition and engagement," said Jess White, Director of Customer Success at Cooleaf.

"Helping organizations create meaningful experiences for their people is what our team prides itself on. Our customers are the foundation of everything we do, which is why this recognition is so meaningful.”

Cooleaf received 26 badges for Winter 2024, and here we breakdown what they mean and how you (real users) help make the best decision when it comes to employee engagement apps.

G2 Badge: Best Relationship

Cooleaf received the top score in the category for Best Relationship. Ease of doing business, the quality of the support, and likelihood a user would be to recommend a product help determine the score for this category.

For Cooleaf, this stand out work is thanks to our Customer Success and Customer Support teams. Along with creating online activities every quarter, such as wellness or peer recognition challenges, our Customer Success team meets quarterly with partners to review metrics (like engagement on the app or points awarded) and offer recommendations according to a partners’ goals.

We also offer webinars to help our partners make the most out of Cooleaf. We’ll walk through basic functionality, answer FAQs, or even brainstorming ideas for any upcoming important dates or events.

“Being a remote worker is great but also comes with unique challenges such as socializing with coworkers. Cooleaf provides a fun way to engage with your coworkers in a less formal setting and get to know them better. It builds relationships in ways you cannot get from more routine work-related team work and collaboration.” - G2 Reviewer

Badges awarded:

• Relationship for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Relationship Employee Engagement Regional | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Relationship Index for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Relationship Index for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Relationship Index for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024

G2 Badge: Users Love Us

We love reading Cooleaf reviews. They not only help us see what’s resonating with our users but it also gives us a little boost and sense of purpose in our work.

The Users Love Us G2 Badge acknowledges our high average of scores across multiple users, and it’s always great to read what online challenges are favorites or how people really value recognizing coworkers. It also gives us as a team an idea of how people are really interacting with the app, so we can continue to bring that people-first mindset to our user experience.

“The fitness challenges have been awesome for me. I am extremely competitive, so with step challenges meeting the minimum steps is a good motivator, but I also wanted to get the most steps in each day or get in the top ten, etc. It has been nice to have a deadline of self care – instead of having an ‘I'll exercise tomorrow’ mentality, it is ‘I need to get my points today!’ It has also opened some doors with coworkers – a challenge that gives you a reason to talk to someone you don't normally get to see.” – G2 Reviewer

Badges awarded:

• Usability Index for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Users Most Likely To Recommend Mid-Market | Winter 2024
• Users Most Likely To Recommend  | Winter 2024

G2 Badges for Employee Engagement

G2 Employee Engagement badges are based on factors such as customer satisfaction, market presence, and features.

Whether a team is remote or in-person, Cooleaf’s platform helps people all over the world share valuable employee feedback with the human resources, engage with coworkers, and earn points to redeem for gift cards of rewards.

As an employee engagement platform, Cooleaf features include pulse surveys, data reporting, and employee recognition.

We’re big fans of the manager dashboard that allows managers to see blind stats about their team. Cooleaf also enables managers to utilize features like employee recognition stats and core value awards to offer feedback for performance management too.

“Company engagement is very important, especially to a company where most people work from home. Fun surveys and the ability to acknowledge other coworkers for their efforts to show appreciation make the work from home experience feel more inclusive along with the ability to collect points to use towards items.” - G2 Reviewer

Badges awarded:

• Momentum Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024

Badges by region:

• Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Small-Business Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024

• Mid-Market Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Enterprise Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Asia Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Asia Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market India Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Asia Pacific Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Asia Pacific Regional Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024

Badges by organization size:

• Enterprise Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024
• Small-Business Grid® Report for Employee Engagement | Winter 2024

Best for Employee Recognition

Manager or peer recognition is a powerful tool that empowers users and teams for their hard work.

The Cooleaf platform helps people celebrate those wins big and small on desktop and iOS or Android devices, so whether you’re at a desk or on-the-go during your work day, you can still take part.

Automated recognitions for work anniversaries or birthdays mean teams never miss an important milestone again. And Cooleaf also offers integrations for Slack and Microsoft Teams so notifications can be kept top of mind too!

“Cooleaf has powered up our company's recognition and rewards program for years. I love how Cooleaf is not a 'run of the mill' recognition program and instead, incorporates fun events and challenges during the year. I've earned points from my manager for great performance as well as points for my team when we exceeded our performance goals and metrics. I also love how our program includes company and team challenges throughout the year.” – G2 Reviewer

Badges awarded:

• Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Enterprise Americas Regional Grid® Report for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024

• Grid® Report for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024
• Mid-Market Grid® Report for Employee Recognition | Winter 2024High-Performer - high customer satisfaction

Recognition always feels good

As we continue to work with our partners and learn from their HR and people management teams on what they need to create an effective employee engagement strategy, the G2 Badges are a big confidence boost for our team!

We love what we do, and we’re happy that shows, from partners winning awards for company culture to employees highlighting the big and small wins every day. It might just look like a public note of thanks on your screen, but to us, it’s making someone’s day a little brighter and more meaningful. Recognition always feels good.

If you’re looking to start nurturing your employee engagement or build out recognition, don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re always here to help.