Are you in HR and ready to improve your organization’s work anniversary program? Then, this is the big question: How do I get started? This blog post makes getting started simple.

Inspiring Work Anniversaries is a workplace culture improvement book in disguise! 🥸

Inspiring Work Anniversaries is now available everywhere books are sold — as a hardcover, paperback, audiobook, and ebook!

The definitive, unbiased guide of all the options for gifts you can give on a work anniversary, along with which make the most sense for which types of organizations

Looking for one of the simplest and most loved work anniversary gifts and one with zero tax complications? Look no further than additional time off!

If your team communicates using a physical bulletin board to post notices in a well-trafficked area — like near the time clock or in the break room — then you can use that space to improve how your organization acknowledges work anniversaries!

Think about broader, societal-level cultures. Think about one that you are especially drawn to. What is it about the culture that appeals to you? Whatever it is, it’s the parts that are different. What makes the culture unique is what makes it special — both in the broadest sense of the word culture and in workplace culture.

If your organization has “increased competency” promotions, then you should be aware of the many benefits of delivering the promotion news on an employee’s work anniversary! 🎉

Do you want amazing work anniversaries at your organization? Get more people involved!

Effectively communicating to employees when to expect performance reviews and pay raises is foundational to the success of any work anniversary program. Further, at the organizations with the best work anniversary programs, performance reviews and pay raises will not happen on or near work anniversaries.

What makes your organization special to employees? How do you communicate that on your careers page, in your job posts, and as part of your hiring process? Work anniversaries can help!

Use work anniversaries to reinforce a reciprocal relationship of trusting support rather than a cold economic relationship where each side is trying to get by with minimal contribution

Having a formal event after work exclusively to celebrate work anniversaries is not especially common, but for some organizations, it can be extraordinarily meaningful and memorable. Learn more about whether it makes sense for your organization!

Among the many unsung wonders of work anniversaries is the ability to improve interdepartmental cooperation. How, you ask? Through starting a Quarter Century Club!

Work anniversaries solve all of the skip-level conversation challenges — How do you choose who to talk to? How do you explain why? How do you bridge the divide in your roles? How do you resist the pull to postpone or cancel? How do you avoid that going-to-the-principal vibe?

Have you ever wondered why it’s so rare to hear a story about someone having an amazing work anniversary?

Want to improve work anniversaries at your organization? Wondering where to start? Start here! Nothing great is going to happen if no one knows when it should happen.

Of all the work anniversary gifts, paid sabbaticals are the most potentially life‑changing.

Work anniversaries are much more than just another year passing. This blog post explores the deeper significance of work anniversaries.

After talking to hundreds of employees in dozens of countries, we have assembled the top 10 work anniversary mistakes. Avoid pain by learning from others’ mistakes!