By providing employee hire dates and dates of birth, Workvivo can automatically generate the following types of posts:
- Welcome Wednesday Posts
A weekly post highlighting new employees based on their hire date. - Work Anniversary Posts
A post recognizing employees’ work anniversaries based on their hire date. - Birthday Posts
A post announcing employees' birthdays if their date of birth is provided.
Note: Dates must be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD (year-month-day).
Device(s): Desktop and Mobile
Work Anniversaries
Once you provide the hire date for your employees, you can specify how often you’d like to celebrate their anniversaries (e.g., every year, every 5 years). Workvivo will configure this according to your preference.
This is what a work anniversary post will look like on web for a user with an avatar:
Content of the Post:
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The text is automatically translated to the user’s default language.
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The user’s profile avatar will display a badge showing the number of years they’ve been with the company.
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The post’s background and text colors will match your brand’s color palette.
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If the user doesn’t have a profile photo, the avatar will be removed from the post:
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Work anniversary posts are also displayed on mobile devices. This is what a work anniversary post will look like on mobile for a user with an avatar:
An example of a mobile post for a user without an avatar:
In addition, on the day of their anniversary, users will receive a notification, and a firework animation (only on desktop) is shown as soon as the screen pops (and every time the user clicks on the notification):
This is what a work anniversary user post will look like on web for a user with an avatar:
An example of an anniversary user post on mobile for a user with an avatar:
Please note that:
- By default, anniversary posts are displayed to all users globally.
- If you want to target posts to a specific group (taxonomy), please contact your Workvivo representative for more information. Users who have enabled the "Hide Anniversary" option in their profile will not have anniversary posts generated for them.
- Anniversary posts can be set up for any number of years. However, it's important to note that they will then be posted in multiples of that year.
For example:
- If anniversary posts are set to five years; a post will go out for each users' 5 year anniversary, 10 year anniversary, 15 year anniversary, 20 year anniversary etc.
- If it's set to two years; posts will fire for their 2 year anniversary, 4 year anniversary, 6 year anniversary, 8 year anniversary etc.
- If it's set to one year, anniversary posts will go out for every single anniversary period. E.g. 1 year, 2 year, 3 year, 4 year anniversaries etc.
Birthday Posts
Workvivo can automatically generate Birthday Posts to recognize employees' birthdays. To enable this feature, ensure the Date of Birth is provided for each employee during the provisioning process.
Note: Dates must be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD (year-month-day).
This is what a birthday post will look like on a desktop for a user with an avatar:
Content of the Post:
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The text is automatically translated to the user’s default language.
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The user’s profile avatar will display a badge showing the number of years they’ve been with the company.
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The post’s background and text colors will match your brand’s color palette.
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Confetti animation moves as you hover over the post.
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If the user doesn’t have a profile photo, the avatar will be removed from the post.
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Please note that:
By default, birthday posts are displayed to all users globally.
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If you want to target posts to a specific group (taxonomy), please contact your Workvivo representative for more information.
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Users who have enabled the "Hide Birthday" option in their profile will not have birthday posts generated for them.
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Birthday posts are also displayed on mobile devices. This is what a work anniversary post will look like on mobile for a user with an avatar (avatar is removed if not available):
In addition, on the day of their birthday, users will receive a notification, and a confetti animation is shown as soon as the screen pops (and every time the user clicks on the notification):
This is what a birthday user post looks like on web for a user with an avatar:
New Joiners Posts
If hire dates are provided for your users, the system will automatically check for any new hires within the last 7 days and include them in a Welcome Wednesday post.
The post is issued every Wednesday at 7:00 AM GMT. Any employee whose hire date falls within the 7-day period leading up to that Wednesday will be included.
For example:
- Mary’s Hire Date: Monday, November 4, 2024 (2020-11-04).
- Welcome Wednesday Post Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024.
- Result: Since Mary’s hire date falls within the 7 days prior to November 6, she is included in the Welcome Wednesday post.
If you notice that someone didn’t appear in a Welcome Wednesday post, it’s important to check when they were set up in the Workvivo system during the user provisioning process.
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Sometimes, there may be a delay between when a new joiner is added to your HR system and when their information is uploaded into Workvivo. This can result in the employee not being included in the Welcome Wednesday post for that week.
Please contact your Workvivo contact person to use your own brand background image for the Welcome Wednesday posts (recommended aspect ratio 3:2):