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Celebrate milestones in Slack

Celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries and other milestones in Slack thanks to BuddiesHR. Get reminders to make sure you don't forget anyone's special moment and send Kudos easily. In this page you'll learn why it's important to celebrate as a team, why Slack is the perfect place for that and how to concretly send celebration messages thanks to Buddies.

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Why is it important to celebrate milestones with your Team?

Celebrating birthdays, work anniversaries or projects is key to having a good company culture. It's one of the things that are really must-haves for remote and hybrid companies.
It's the best effort/impact ratio you can find to increase employee engagement and recognition.
Having a culture of celebration has many benefits:

  • It boosts team cohesion and morale
  • It bridges the gap for distributed teams
  • It increases Productivity (Happy employees perform better)
  • It brings some fun into everyday routine


Why slack is the right place for celebrating milestones?

Slack is the most efficient way to send Kudos and celebrate birthdays and other events because it's easy to send a public message seend by everyone.
It's easy to react and comment to the announcements.
Posting recognitions and celebration messages directly in the context of Slack without having to sign-in to any extra account or click on a link makes sure that everyone can see it and react
Slack is where culture happens.
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How Buddieshr can be used to celebrate employees?

By installing Billy Birthday and Clappy Kudos Slack apps from BuddiesHR, you'll be able to send employee recognition and automate birthday and work anniversary celebrations.

Here are the steps to start celebrating Employees in Slack:

  • Step 1: Install Billy Birthday for Slack and Clappy Kudos for Slack
  • Step 2: Go through the setup flow of each of the apps.
  • Step 3: Send your first Recognition to lead the way and wait for the next celebration to be automatically posted 🙌
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Why Billy and Clappy are the best options for celebrating milestones as a team?

Clappy has all the features to make employee recognition easy. It's fully integrated into Slack:

  • Automate Birthday and work anniversary celebrations in a few clicks. Drop the hustle of having to organize and write unique messages.
  • Create a culture of Kudos, Praise and Recognition thanks to Clappy. Activate leaderboards and add rewards to push people to use it on the long run.
  • Let Billy choose the best GIFs and funny messaging to announce the celebrations.
  • Employees don't leave Slack to use Clappy or Billy and don't have to create any other account.

Clappy and Billy are top performing apps on Slack

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Celebrate together in Slack

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FAQ

How Billy knows the birth dates?

Billy can either reach out to the employees asking them to enter their date or Admins can import them thanks to a spreadsheet template that we provide. Dates can also be added/edited individually.

Can I customize automated birthday messages?

Yes, even though messages are posted automatically. You can personalize the messages beforehand.