Website of the week: www.longservice.com

Nobody acknowledges the importance of rewarding long service more than HR,
but finding the time to administer and manage it in a structured way isn’t
always easy. Longservice.com, owned and run by WH Business Gifts, offers a
simple, Web-based system that takes care of the whole business. Service periods
can be determined online (for instance, five years, 10 years and so on) and a
recognition level allocated for each one. Once Longservice is supplied with the
necessary employee data (this can be done annually or monthly), the system
recognises when an employee is coming up for a service reward, and provides for
a gift to be chosen for them or by them from the appropriate recognition level,
and then delivers it. HR can control whether it wants the gift to be delivered
to the recipient’s home or to be presented, and can choose from options
including personalisation. There is no set-up fee or contractual agreement
required, and the service can be extended to birthdays and leaving presents.
The site allows you to take a simple tour and clicking on the "HR
involvement" section will explain exactly what the HR department has to do
to get it up and running.