A Gratitude Shower gathers what a team sees in one person and hands it over as an experience, not as an email.
Only 1 in 5 people feels they get the recognition they deserve. This is for the other four.
The problem
22%
of employees say they get the right amount of recognition for their work. The number has not moved since 2022.
Gallup · Workhuman, 2024
And what we do today is not enough. A farewell email no one answers. A lunch where three people say something nice and the rest look at their phones. A card twenty people signed and two people wrote in.
What people need to hear already exists — it is in their colleagues’ heads. There is just nowhere to put it.
What changes when it does happen
45%
less likely to have left two years later, among people who get quality recognition
65%
less likely to be looking for another job right now
200%
of their salary is what it costs to replace a leader or manager who leaves
A longitudinal study by Gallup and Workhuman of almost 3,500 employees, 2022–2024.
gallup.com/workplace/650174
When it is used
What they get asked
No one has to be a writer to say something true.
What makes it different
It is anonymous among peers, not to the company. No one sees anyone else’s answers until the end, and the person receiving them sees them signed. No aggregation, no dashboard, no score.
It is delivered as a ritual, not as a file. A threshold you cross, envelopes that open one at a time, moments to do something with whatever comes up. It takes as long as the person wants to give it.
The artefact stays. A document you can print and keep. People have it stuck to their desk two years later.