Gamify the work that actually matters. Status, not money.

Twenty-six built-in actions — on-time vs late attendance, open-shift pickups and swaps, task completion, course completion, quiz passes, survey completion, idea submissions, ballot votes, safety inspections and observations, recognition given and received (self-recognition is excluded), contest entries, wins and votes, checking in at a company event, and low-value, daily-capped engagement such as logging in, reading, posting, commenting, reacting, and watching videos. Every award is automatic and runs in a background job, so the host action is never slowed down or blocked.

There are 60 levels whose cost rises in bands, from 50 XP early on up to 425 XP per level near the top; 750 XP reaches Level 10 and the Contributor tier. The curve is the same for every company. Employees see one of five named tiers (Rookie, Contributor, Pro, Veteran, Master) and a progress bar toward the next one, with their own level and all-time points as a detail beneath it; leaderboards show other people's tier and points, never their level number. Notifications fire on tier promotion, not on every level.

There are 45 built-in badges across ten categories — reliability, shift hero, execution, safety, learner, quiz, voice, team player, contests, and engagement; six of them are earned through the Contests app. Admins can rename any badge and change its icon, threshold, and unlock message, switch badges or whole categories off, and add custom badges of their own.

Two layers. The XP ledger is idempotency-keyed, so the same event can never be awarded twice. And the grindable actions carry daily caps — tasks and recognition received at 10 a day, observations at 5, and recognition given at 3 — so no one can farm the leaderboard.

Monthly and all-time boards — company-wide, by location, by market or district, and by job title. Each employee sees the top of the board, their own position once they've earned XP that period, and the person directly ahead to chase — never the bottom of the board. Boards name everyone who has earned XP in the period. A nightly snapshot refreshes the boards, a nightly reconciliation repairs any drift, and an opt-in weekly digest emails the standings to company administrators every Monday.

Recognition-points tools tie status to spendable currency, which forces stingy allowances and a fraud watch. Levels & Badges keeps status (XP) separate from currency. XP is never spent, and any store-points payout for level-ups is opt-in and capped by a budget you set. XP comes from operational work — on-time shifts, open-shift pickups, safety logs, and training — not just peer shout-outs. It also runs inside the platform employees already use, with no separate login.