With Birthdays and Work Anniversaries, teammates celebrate each other on special dates with thoughtful messages. Candor reminds teammates of upcoming birthdays, work anniversaries, and new hire start dates, collects celebratory messages, and shares them with the teammate on their special day.
🔔 Keep track of upcoming birthdays and work anniversaries, making sure no one is forgotten on their special day.
💌 Celebrate special occasions with thoughtful, personal messages
🗓 Welcome new teammates to the team on their first day
🎖 Create thoughtful recognition on days that are special to your teammates, never missing a special moment that calls for celebration
✨ Research shows that thoughtful messages are more effective in celebrations compared to physical gifts. It’s also more cost effective and gets the whole team involved!
🎉 Make new hires feel welcome and excited to get to know new teammates.
To set up the Birthdays and Work Anniversaries mission, follow these steps:
1. Set up a Team Space. Make sure you have a Team Space set up. If you don’t, you’ll need to set that up first, which you can do here.
2. Click on Birthdays and Work Anniversaries Dashboard. Click on the Birthdays and Work Anniversaries dashboard, which can be found on the left side of your Feed page or on the top of your Team Space page.
3. Add birthdays and work start dates. Add your own birthday and the day you started working on your team. You’ll also have the option to add dates for your teammates, but if you don’t, your teammates can add them later.
4. Launch Birthdays and Work Anniversaries. If you have more than 4 teammates and haven’t upgraded your account, you’ll need to add a credit card to do so. If you have less than 4 teammates, you can click “Launch Birthdays and Work Anniversaries” which will start the mission.
You’ll need to invite teammates to Candor so that they can add their birthday and work start dates and so they can participate in celebrations!
The easiest way to invite teammates to Candor is by clicking on the ‘Invite’ icon on the left side of your Feed, next to your Team Space name.
You’ll then be prompted to input your teammates’ emails or copy a link to send them. If you copy the link, you can paste it in Slack/Teams or in an email, prompting your teammates to sign up.
With either of these methods, your teammates will automatically be added to your Team Space and invited to participate in Birthdays and Work Anniversaries.
Once you’ve set up the mission, you’re ready to start celebrating! Two weeks before a birthday, work anniversary, or new hire start day, the team will be notified of an upcoming celebration via email and Slack. We will send an email with the link to write a celebratory message.
You can also write a message going to the Birthdays and Work Anniversaries dashboard by clicking on Birthdays and Work Anniversaries on the left part of the Feed:
Or, by navigating to your Team Space page and clicking the “Birthdays and Work Anniversaries” card in the top section of the page.
Once you are in the dashboard, you will see the upcoming birthdays, work anniversaries, and start dates. Click on the celebration card to open the modal to share your celebratory message.
Once you’ve shared your message, you’ll be able to see other messages shared for your teammate’s special day. On the day of, your teammates being celebrated will be able to see them, too.
You can view work celebrations in a few places:
Celebrations have team-wide visibility, which means only members of your Team Space will see celebration messages and any related comments.
All teammates can add reactions and comments to celebration messages in the Team Space.
There are 6 possible reactions on Candor:
Teammates can add multiple reactions to convey how the celebration message makes them feel. They can also add comments to the celebration.
Comments and reactions will show on the celebration message itself, in the feed, and in the Candor-integrated Slack channel (if applicable).
We will remind teammates to share celebration messages for upcoming birthdays, work anniversaries, and start dates twice: two weeks prior to the date and one day prior to the date.
We’ll send a teammate a notification on email and in Slack on the day of their birthday, work anniversary, or start date. The notification will include a link that includes all celebration messages and confetti, of course.
To get the most out of Birthdays and Work Anniversaries, we have a few tips and tricks:
Candor makes it easy to connect and have fun with your teammates, even while you’re remote. Use Candor to do feedback, shoutouts, check-ins, and more, all in one place.
Feel free to share questions or feedback with our team. We will be in touch within 1 business day.
