About Kudos

Kudos is an employee engagement, culture, and analytics platform, that enables organizations to create meaningful employee experiences using peer-to-peer recognition, values reinforcement, and open communication. It serves human resources departments, corporate culture managers, employee engagement specialists, and organizational development professionals.This helps organizations boost employee engagement, reduce turnover, improve culture, and drive productivity and performance. Kudos uses unique proprietary methodologies to deliver essential people analytics on culture, performance, equity, and inclusion, providing organizations with deep insights and a clear understanding of the workforce. The platform is used in multiple countries in different continents in a wide variety of industries and languages. Kudos offers a range of features to support employee recognition and culture building. This includes peer recognition, employee rewards, awards and nominations, employee milestones, people analytics, an AI Recognition Assistant, group greeting cards, pulse surveys, and integrations. Kudos aims to drive performance, reduce turnover, and build a stronger workplace culture by facilitating employee connection and engagement through recognition. The platform provides insights on performance and workplace culture, automates employee celebrations, and simplifies culture building for HR leaders. It offers a selection of rewards such as merchandise, gift cards, and experiences, and delivers deep insights into performance and employee experience. Kudos helps companies measure employee performance and morale to predict turnover, observes recognition patterns for inclusion and belonging insights, and provides a platform for meaningful recognition messages. Kudos simplifies the process of automating employee celebrations, sending personalized recognition, and launching awards programs which empowers HR teams to focus on cultivating a thriving workplace culture Kudos also facilitates integration with a wide range of other business software to help streamline culture-building efforts, driving performance by recognizing the values and behaviors that matter most while also lowering turnover through increased engagement and a stronger sense of belonging.
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Kudos pricing

Kudos does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.

Starting Price:
Not provided by vendor
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
No

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Kudos Reviews for UK Users

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.6
Functionality
4.7
Ease of Use
4.8
Customer Support
4.7
5 reviews of 1,104 View all reviews
Leeav
Leeav
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 15/12/2024

Kudos Review

Overall, I enjoyed using this software, but sometimes found it to be pointless

Pros

What I liked most that it praises people for their good work

Cons

My least favorite thing about kudos is it’s user interface

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 23/08/2024

Promising tool with employee friendly offering

Kudos- A great performance recognition tool it is... but way to go

Pros

1. Super simple but very attractive P2P dashboard with external link inbuild
2. Secure login via okta to protect unauthorized access to employee's personal data
3. Offers a plethora of external vendor for awarded gift cards
4. Leaderboard design s customizable which is a great offering for any product company

Cons

1. Integration is a bit issues initially as they are bit rigid to changes
2. Costly indeed in the market
3. No free trial were offered
4. Mobile version is not very sleek as it hangs frequently

Morini
  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 16/12/2024

Why You Sould Use Kudos- Keeps Workplace Culture

Pros

Kudos focus more on value-based recognition and gamification. It helps in enhancing the workplace culture and keep the employee happy and motivates. Goal setting is easier and straightforward. The employee are able to engage with the HR team regarding the performance.

Cons

The tool lacks advance analytic features
Has a limited customization
Cost

elaine
  • Industry: Veterinary
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
2
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
0

3
Reviewed on 17/10/2023

Okay for what it does

Pros

Easy to put in metrics for measuring employee engagement.

Cons

It doesn't have enough room for additional metrics or methods of quantifying our employee metrics.

Mmoham
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 05/01/2025

Ethical way of recognising employees.

Having kudos as an employee recognation tool in our company has been entirely beneficial.

Pros

The product is very user-friendly you don't need to be a specialist.

Cons

The software does not have effective survey tools and poll systems.

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