The Employee Appreciation Workbook

How do you build employee appreciation?

This workbook walks you through our Total Employee Experience pyramid and outlines the types of benefits and employee programs that satisfy each level, along with an action plan to support your success.

• Physiological needs: For those employees looking for a new job, we found 57% cited the need for more money as the driving motivation. While the argument could be made that employees who are treated well become less focused on pay, it is clearly an important way for employers to demonstrate they appreciate employees. Organizations can support their employees’ physiological needs in a variety of ways.
• Safety & security needs: Wellbeing is becoming an increasingly powerful way to demonstrate employee appreciation. Desk-based organizations face different (but not fewer) challenges to their deskless counterparts in terms of impact on employee wellbeing, so tailor your offerings to your demographics and industry.
• Love & belonging needs: For your employees to feel engaged with your organization, they have to feel a sense of belonging and connection with the company and their co-workers. In 2024, we found that 42% of employees ranked a feeling of belonging at work as more important than a 10% pay raise. Building a culture of appreciation includes making sure people have pathways and opportunities to connect and bond with each other.
• Self-esteem needs: This tier of employee experience is all about being seen and acknowledged for one’s efforts, along with opportunities for growth and professional development.

Download this workbook to review, in greater depth, each level of the Employee Experience pyramid and learn specific ways to meet all the levels of employee needs. Then, fill out our custom worksheet to map out your organization's EVP offerings and identify gaps and opportunities to make your corner of the world a better place to work!