News Briefs...NextLevel Recognizes Suppliers...goHappy Rewards Offers New Features
Here is news from suppliers in the incentive, rewards, and recognition (IRR) industry.
Next Level Performance Announces 2025 Travel Partners of the Year
goHappy Frontline Employee Engagement Tech Adds Rewards
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NextLevel Performance recognizes its top 2025 suppliers. goHappy front-line employee engagement company, offers new features.
Next Level Performance Announces 2025 Travel Partners of the Year
Next Level Performance, New Brunswick, NJ, announces the recipients of its 2025 Travel Partners of the Year Awards, “honoring distinguished partners whose dedication and expertise have been instrumental in delivering exceptional incentive travel experiences. These awards celebrate the outstanding partners who have consistently gone above and beyond to help us create remarkable experiences and achieve outstanding results for our clients.”
Hotel Partner of the Year: InterContinental the Willard, Washington D.C. by IHG
DMC Partner of the Year: Abreu Events, Lisbon
Next Level Performance has provided design and implementation of sales incentives, customer loyalty programs, employee recognition and reward strategies, and meetings and event solutions since 1976. Dave Dittman is President.
goHappy Frontline Employee Engagement Tech Adds Rewards
goHappy, the nine-year-old Richmond VA-based “app-free” frontline employee engagement technology, has launched goHappy Rewards, a new feature within its rewards and recognition suite that it says enables employers to easily celebrate, recognize, and reward their frontline teams.
With goHappy Rewards, it says, employers can now award points for shout-outs, new hire and engagement surveys, and milestone events such as birthdays and anniversaries. Employers have full control over how points are awarded — including who can send them (e.g., managers or peers) and how much each is worth — and can even customize the name of their "points" to fit their company culture.
Frontline employees can redeem their points for a curated selection of digital gift cards, all directly through goHappy. No separate logins, apps, or systems are required. Because goHappy connects with frontline employees via text message, every employee — not just those who download an app or create an account — can participate and feel the impact of recognition.
"Recognition is one of the most powerful ways to make people feel valued, yet too often frontline workers are left out because of the technology gap," says Shawn Boyer, Founder and CEO of goHappy. "With goHappy Rewards, we're breaking down those barriers so employers can celebrate every team member in a simple, inclusive, and meaningful way."
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