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Remote Employee Recognition

4 September 2026

Remote Employee Recognition

​It’s pivotal as employers, and managers that we continue to recognise achievements of employees remotely, to reflect our appreciation…

With so many organisations making it mandatory to work from home, and many of us choosing to WFH for the foreseeable future – it’s easy to feel isolated within your own work bubble.

Many have more time to complete work faster, whilst others are battling work and home life so much so, that it’s a miracle we got logged on at 9 am.

This is a period in our working lives most of us have never experienced, leaving us vulnerable to the prospect of the ‘unknown’, and shifting our confidence in our ability to perform well at work.

Therefore, as a leader within your organisation – recognising employees hard work through turbulence is a meaningful way to upkeep positive morale, and reflect a clear sense of employee awareness within your teams.

Ways to recognise employees during a pandemic:

Coming up with creative ways of showing recognition and appreciation can be difficult, so here are 4 quick examples of what we have seen companies do during this pandemic.

Celebratory Video Calls

Video technology platforms like Microsoft Teams, and Zoom allow you to continue to have face-to-face interactions with your colleagues and employees. Booking in meetings in advance to recognise the achievements of your teams, or to individually congratulate your employees is a great way to boost morale and highlight that you are still paying attention to their work.

Continue your employee newsletter

A newsletter is a great, low-cost way for all employees to easily digest moments within your teams or your organisation as a whole. Celebrating achievements through this platform is another way to uplift team spirits as recognition is in writing and can be looked back on.

Send food and drink

We’ve heard of clients who have ordered a round of pizza, or drinks for their employees to ‘cheers’ or eat together on zoom as a way of upkeeping positivity and unity through the lockdown. You can set aside a Friday afternoon to do this perhaps allowing for the whole team to get involved.

Congratulation flowers

If you haven’t got the budget to be sending your whole team a pizza, sending across congratulatory flowers and a card is another meaningful way to celebrate a win within your team.

Of course, there are many alternate ways, big and small that you can recognise your employees hard work from WhatsApp group messages, to LinkedIn posts, and even simply by talking to them over the phone. Research inherently highlights how happy employees, are more productive – so let us know what you are doing to keep engagement levels high.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
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 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
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Engineering & Manufacturing
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 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
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Executive Search
Across all of the above
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Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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