Q4 · 2025 · Integrations · Product Update

Product Update - Features & Integrations To Upscale Your Employee Engagement in 2021

Why we built
this batch.

HR teams kept telling us the same thing: recognition stops at the desk. The frontline gets missed, the data sits in dashboards no one opens, and managers run out of budget two weeks before the quarter ends. These features address each of those gaps directly.

Frontline and shift workers are often left out of recognition programs — they rarely see the platforms their companies invest in.

Engagement rises significantly when recognition reaches people in the tools they already use — chat, email, or in-person.

Employees who go too long without recognition start to show early signals of disengagement and attrition risk.

What changed — and why
it matters
for your people.

At Vantage Circle, we thrive on bringing the best possible solution for all our associates and partners for enhancing employee engagement within their organization. And going forward with the same, as we step into a new fiscal year, our team made sure that our platform is all set to accommodate the varying needs of enterprises by introducing some new features and product integrations.

Let’s have a look at the new updates and what it brings to your organizations.

Table of Contents
LIST OF UPDATES & INTEGRATIONS

Feed Engagement Score

Feed-Engagement-Score

We have recently added a new feature called the “Feed Engagement Score” in our Vantage Rewards Platform.

The Feed Engagement Score gives the users, i.e., employees’ the real-time engagement score based on their activity within the platform.

The weightage of this score is derived from 3 parameters:

  • Appreciation given to peers
  • Comments/Replies on feed posts
  • Likes on feed posts/comments/replies

Here, the score of the most engaged employee considering their activity in the past 30 days within the platform is taken as a benchmark for calculating the score of others.

The Feed Engagement has been bifurcated into two categories-

Individual Score (Employee Score)

It is calculated based on an individual's activity within the platform as per the three pre-defined parameters. Different badges are assigned based on their score that is displayed below their profile picture.

Organizational Score

The organizational score is the average engagement score of all the employees within the organization.

Types of Badges

Grey Badge - For employees whose engagement score is less than 50.

Light Theme - For employees whose engagement score is between 50 to 70.

Bright Theme- For employees whose engagement score is greater than 70.

Available Customizations

There are three available customizations for this newly added feature.

  1. You can assign the color of the badge to match your company theme/branding.
  2. You can also assign the “Appreciate Button” color to match your company theme/branding.
  3. The default weightage for calculating the overall engagement score, i.e., Appreciate 50%, Comment 30%, and Like 20%, can be optimized as per your requirements.

MS Teams R&R Integration

MS-Team-R-R-Integration---Vantage-Rewards

As per the demand of most of our clients who rely on MS Teams to support their internal communications, we have integrated our Vantage Rewards platform into MS Teams.

With this integration, organizations using MS Teams can easily reward and recognize their employees using Vantage Rewards without leaving their team channel. Thus, paving the way for enhancing the participation rate for your R&R initiatives.

What Are Its Key USPs?

  • Easy Integration
  • Quick Appreciation
  • Prompt Awarding
  • Open Communication channels

How Convenient Is It?

Once Vantage Rewards is integrated and connected with your MS Teams by the admin, users can select the Vantage Rewards message from the taskbar inside MS Teams and choose their preferred option, whether to appreciate or nominate their colleagues.

All the rewards and recognition bestowed within the MS Teams channel will also be displayed over the social feed of the Vantage Rewards platform.

To know more about integrating and connecting Vantage Rewards with MS Teams, Click Here

Slack R&R Integration

Slack-R-R-Integration-Vantage-Rewards

Slack is another popular team communication tool with which our customers can now integrate their Vantage Rewards platform for bolstering employee engagement through R&R from within their slack chat window.

What Are Its Key USPs?

  • Send appreciation to teammates.
  • Managers can give awards to the team members
  • Employees can nominate their peers
  • Instant notifications.

Both nomination and appreciation can be quickly done with a button inside the home tab.

Here, all the nominations and appreciations given within slack using the Vantage Rewards integration will be in the R&R social feed.

To know more about integrating and connecting Vantage Rewards with SLACK, Click Here

Updates on Vantage Fit - Our AI-Powered Corporate Wellness Solution

E-Marathon on Vantage Fit

E-Marathon--Vantage-Fit

Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our team added a unique feature for our Vantage Fit clients, who’ll now be able to host an E-marathon contest to keep their employees healthy and engaged.

This unique challenge format will help you simulate a virtual marathon while considering 1000 steps as 1 KM or 1609 steps = 1 Mile. Here you can define your desired finish-line with a virtual mile-marker.

We created this feature to help our users elevate their virtual employee wellness initiative. The feature counts in the steps walked by the user anywhere without GPS tracking.

Other Updates on Vantage Fit Include -

  • Users will now be able to change their passwords in the app itself. However, it is only applicable for users signing in with their email address and password.
  • The app now supports regional localization for metrics. Based on a user’s geographic location, the app shows relevant units, Imperial or Metric System SI.
  • Admins will now have complete control over team management, i.e., from creating one to updating its members.
  • Admins can track multiple wellness programs running across several locations on one single dashboard screen with dedicated pages for all.

Schedule a Free Demo of Vantage Fit Today and Upgrade Your Employee Experience With the Joy of Wellness

Which team benefits
the most?

Most buyers run recognition across mixed populations — desk workers, frontline, remote, and management. Here's roughly how this update maps across each group.

Workforce
Recognition
Notifications
Analytics
Integrations
Industrial & shift
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Frontline & retail
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Field & remote teams
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Office & knowledge
Leadership & managers
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Questions a buyer
actually asks.

How long does it take to roll out these features across a multi-site workforce? +
Most customers go live within 3–4 weeks. Features that touch physical fulfilment (like cards or kits) use our existing Vantage Swags lane, so if you're already set up there, the lift is minimal. Configuration-only features can go live in under a week.
Do any of these features require additional licensing or third-party dependencies? +
It depends on the feature. Integration-based additions (like M365 Copilot) run on top of your existing licenses — no separate Vantage seat required. For features that rely on an external platform, your account manager will flag the prerequisite before you activate it.
Can we restrict who has access to budget-sensitive features? +
Yes. Budget-sensitive features are gated to designated holders with per-person and per-department limits. Your admin configures who can use them, how much, and on which recognition types. There are no surprise spends.
How do these updates tie back to our values framework? +
You map them. Each recognition type, badge, or award can be tied to a specific company value you've defined. That mapping flows through to dashboards and reports, so you can track which values are most recognized — useful for performance reviews and internal mobility decisions.
We're already a Vantage Circle customer — is this an upgrade or a new SKU? +
All platform features ship as part of your existing plan. Usage-based components (fulfilment, point budgets) are billed separately when applicable, but the features themselves aren't a new purchase. Talk to your account manager about turning them on.

Want to see how this
looks inside your
own setup?

30-minute walkthrough, tailored to your workforce mix and the recognition program you're already running.

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