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title: 6 HR Best Practices to Recognize Long-Term Employees - Terryberry
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# 6 HR Best Practices to Recognize Long-Term Employees

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 mindutopia

January 5, 2017

 Recognizing employees for their long-term service is among the most established  HR best practices, but is your organization doing service awards effectively? 80% of organizations have a service awards program in place. Yet most employees don’t feel adequately recognized for their work.  With a few simple tweaks, your service awards program can do more to engage, retain and encourage your employees.  
 In this [new video](https://youtu.be/D4g5GV_oPiQ) from Terryberry, learn how to design an effective employee service awards program using 6 practical tips.

1. Celebrate early milestones as well as long-term service
2. Create a sustainable infrastructure for your service awards program
3. Document achievements using a [social recognition platform](https://www.terryberry.com/give-a-wow-social-recognition/)
4. Create a WOW moment with the award presentation
5. Establish a [service awards budget](https://www.terryberry.com/get-started/pricing/)
6. Use meaningful [service awards gifts](https://www.terryberry.com/products-and-services/)

   
 Want to learn more?  Download the whitepaper [6 Best Practices for Service Awards Programs](https://www.terryberry.com/whitepapers/)  
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