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We made the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list. Here's the story behind it.
May 21, 2026
Huggg has been named in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026. The honest story of how a coffee gifting app became one of the UK's best workplaces.
You're spending money fixing the wrong problem
August 11, 2026
We asked 500 UK workers about recognition. Spending more on the reward barely moved the needle. Here's what actually did.
Best staff reward ideas for deskless and shift-based teams in 2026
August 10, 2026
Reward ideas that actually reach hourly, shift and deskless teams, without a work email, a home address or a whip-round. Built for retail, hospitality, care, warehouse and field workers.
Employee rewards platform vs one-off gift cards: what scales without the admin
August 7, 2026
Buying gift cards one by one works fine for a handful of people. At 50, 500 or 5,000 the admin eats the gesture. Here's where one-off gift cards break, and what an employee rewards platform changes about giving at scale.
How to choose an employee rewards platform your team will actually use
August 6, 2026
Most rewards platforms get bought on features and then barely used. Here's the buyer's checklist that predicts adoption, the questions to ask on a demo, and the red flags that mean a tool will end up unused.
Our reward budget gets underspent every year. How do we fix take-up?
August 5, 2026
If your employee reward budget goes unspent every year, the problem usually isn't apathy. It's friction. Here's why take-up stalls and the practical fixes that get a reward programme actually used.
What employee rewards actually cost when nobody uses them
August 4, 2026
Reward schemes get judged on what goes in, not what gets used, and the gap is where the money disappears. Here's the real cost of rewards nobody claims, and why choice-led recognition lands where a reward scheme doesn't.
Best retirement gift ideas UK in 2026
August 3, 2026
The best retirement gift ideas for UK teams in 2026, from the send-off moment to the gift itself, and why the one thing that makes a retirement gift land is letting them choose it.
Employee gift cards vs cash bonuses: which one people actually remember
July 31, 2026
A cash bonus feels like the generous option. But it's the one people forget, and the one that's always taxed. Here's an honest comparison of gift cards vs cash bonuses for employees, on memory, cost, tax and effort, and when each one is actually the right call.
How to run a peer-to-peer recognition scheme that reinforces your values
July 30, 2026
A peer-to-peer recognition scheme only works if it's low-friction, backed by a real budget, and tied to the behaviours you actually want. Here's a six-step way to build one that reinforces your values instead of becoming a 'great job!' wall that fades in a month.