The 10 most effective platforms to measure & improve the employee experience

^2. Bonusly

Bonusly offers peer-to-peer recognition features, where every employee receives a certain amount of points they can put toward recognizing their peers. Recognition recipients can then use those points to collect rewards like gift cards, cash-out options, charitable donations, and other customized options, also offered through Bonusly’s platform. 

Bonusly also allows you to automate employee rewards for personal and company milestones as well as your incentive and referral programs.
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Key features
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• Peer-to-peer recognition tools
• Customizable employee rewards
• Automated milestone tracking
• Tools for designing incentive and referral programs
• Analytics and reporting

^3. Cornerstone

Cornerstone is a solid solution for companies that want to make their learning and development opportunities more personalized to employee needs. You can build a skills profile for each employee, gathered from their extensive database. Managers can then tag the relevant Cornerstone-curated learning content based on the competencies employees need to develop, which means team members aren’t wasting their time on unnecessary training.

Cornerstone also includes performance management, recruiting and onboarding, and employee data management software among its suite of products, allowing you to support employees throughout multiple phases of their tenures.
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Key features
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• Built-in learning management system (LMS)
• Skills graphs and individualized employee skills profiles
• Performance management system
• Recruiting and onboarding software
• Core HR system for employee data management

^4. GoodHabitz

GoodHabitz is an online training and learning platform offering the hard and soft skills training that companies need to stay agile and competitive. From digital skills and language courses to well-being and time management training, GoodHabitz has an extensive library of content that employees can access and share with their colleagues. 

The platform also helps you reinforce learning with assessments and WorkOuts, which are group assignments employees can do during working hours. This way, employees aren’t only receiving training, but they’re also staying actively involved in the process with discussions and feedback.
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Key features
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• Catalog of learning and training courses
• Assessments and group assignment tools
• Analytics and reporting.

^5. Personio

A platform dedicated to core HR and talent management, Personio is designed to help human resource teams manage employee data and keep up-to-date records so they can smoothly onboard and offboard team members. At the same time, self-service portals means employees don’t have to rely on managers if they want to update their information, request time off, view their pay stubs, and take part in 360-degree performance reviews.
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Key features
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• Recruiting and onboarding tools
• Applicant tracking and sourcing
• Offboarding tools
• Payroll
• Time tracking
• Absence management
• Digital employee file database
• Performance management
• Training courses

^6. Jira

The Atlassian product Jira isn’t just for software development teams working on coding jobs anymore. With its project management tool, any team can manage and track crucial projects, changing the template view based on their needs. For example, the HR team can use it to manage candidates, and the design team can use it to organize their tasks and assets. 

Jira also has specific products for simplifying software development, supporting service and customer-facing teams, and keeping your tech and business teams connected on strategy, which makes it an excellent fit for enterprise-level software and design companies.
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Key features
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• Project management tools and dashboards
• Customer service team support software
• Software development project management tools
• Strategic alignment features

^7. monday.com

Even though it's not formally EX software, monday.com can help you improve the employee experience with dashboards for tracking objectives and key results, allowing team members to see how their work contributes to broader company goals. Moreover, because it's easy for anyone to create tasks and manage assignments with Kanban boards and Gantt charts, monday.com empowers team members to take more ownership of business-critical projects. 
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Key features
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• Project and task management templates
• Goals and strategy dashboards
• Customer relationship management software for sales teams
• Spring and bug-tracking software for development teams

^8. Notion

As remote work becomes the norm, Notion’s collaborative online workspace platform has become increasingly popular among companies of all sizes. Notion makes onboarding, training, and knowledge management easier with Wikis that allow you to create central resource hubs. With project management tools, the platform is also helpful for teams that need to collaborate on creative initiatives, strategies, and tasks. 

For businesses embracing AI, Notion also offers a generative AI writing assistant to help teams brainstorm, summarize, and plan.
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Key features
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• Customizable workspaces for keeping projects and knowledge bases separate and organized
• Shareable notes and documents that allow you to upload various types of content and media
• Structured pages and subpages for organizing information
• Templates for taking meeting notes, tracking projects, and making to-do lists
• Integrated AI writing assistant

^9. Slack

Slack has become more than a faster alternative to email — with Huddles, Clips, and file-sharing functions, it’s now an essential tool for remote, hybrid, and in-office teams that need to collaborate and make decisions with greater agility. It’s also fantastic for informing employee experience initiatives, because it’s with built-in tools for polls and surveys that you can use to gather quick feedback from team members.

Slack also integrates with a plethora of third-party calendar tools and software for people enablement, project management, and customer support platforms, eliminating the need for team members to constantly toggle between different apps.
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Key features
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• Customizable channels for specific projects
• Individual and group messaging
• Huddles for audio and video calling
• Clips tools for recording and sharing videos 
• File sharing

^10. Zendesk

While Zendesk is primarily a customer support and service platform designed to help client-facing teams manage and resolve customer issues, it's unexpectedly useful for improving the employee experience. Zendesk allows you to build product knowledge bases you can leverage for onboarding and training. You can also use the platform to set up an internal help desk where employees submit requests for IT and questions for HR.

Finally, Zendesk’s analytics also makes it easier for you to track the efficiency of your internal processes, enabling you to adjust them for increased productivity.
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Key features
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• CRM software
• Customer help center for product information
• Internal company helpdesk and knowledge center
• Analytics and reporting
• Built-in AI to help you solve customer and employee problems