Use Case

Employee Recognition for Remote and Hybrid Teams

In chat-centered workplaces, 56% of employees receive recognition weekly; in email-only workplaces it is 39%. Where your tools live determines whether appreciation happens. Matter lives in Slack and Teams.
Remote & Hybrid Teams
Weekly recognition reaches 56% in chat-centered workplaces vs 39% in email-only ones.

Distance makes good work invisible

Remote work removes every ambient signal of appreciation: the hallway thanks, the visible late night, the nod in the meeting. What is left is what your tools carry, and email carries almost nothing.

Independent survey research found the gap directly: weekly recognition reaches 56% of employees in chat-centered workplaces and 39% in email-only ones.

How Matter works across distance

Appreciation that travels without a shared office.

1

Kudos where remote work happens

Recognition lives in Slack or Teams, the same place the work does. Kudos post in the channel as designed cards with coins attached.

2

Feedback Friday

One shared ritual across every time zone. Feedback Friday posts a kickoff, a reminder, and a recap every week, automatically.

3

Celebrations

Birthdays and anniversaries nobody has to remember across a distributed calendar. Celebrations pull dates from your directory or HRIS and post on their own.

The tool your team is already in

Remote teams will not adopt another platform. Matter runs in Slack or Microsoft Teams, which is where distributed work already happens.

No separate logins

Recognition happens inside Slack or Microsoft Teams. No new accounts to create, no passwords to reset, ever.

User management syncs itself

Membership follows your Slack or Teams directory automatically. No HRIS required to start, and 250+ supported when you want them.

About 2 minutes to set up

Install Matter, add it to a channel, and your team can start recognizing each other the same day.
Matter gives us the opportunity to share feedback with our direct teammates and across all departments, which is very valuable since we are all working remotely. It's important to have Feedback Friday because it connects us together at a certain time and place. We love seeing each other's successes, not only for our own teams but across other departments as well.
Citlalli Amador, Human Resources BP: Talent Attraction and Culture at Yaydoo

What the data says about remote recognition

Where your tools live determines whether appreciation happens at all.

Weekly recognition figures: independent survey of 1,021 employed U.S. professionals, fielded July 2026. Ritual figure: aggregate, anonymized data across thousands of teams on Matter, trailing 12 months. See the research →

56%

of employees in chat-centered workplaces receive recognition weekly

39%

receive it weekly in email-only workplaces

2.5x

more recognition per member on teams that build a recognition ritual

Frequently asked questions

Does Matter work across time zones?

Yes. Feedback Friday and celebrations post on your workspace's schedule, and recognition is asynchronous by nature, so nobody has to be online at the same time.

Do hybrid offices and remote employees share one program?

Yes. Everyone in your Slack or Teams workspace is in the same program automatically, wherever they sit.

What does Matter cost?

Every workspace starts with a free 14-day trial of everything, no credit card required, then lands on the Free Forever plan. Paid plans start at $1 per user per month. Full details on the pricing page.

How long does setup take?

About 2 minutes to install and 5 to 10 to customize. Users sync from Slack or Microsoft Teams automatically, so there is no HRIS project between you and launch. 250+ HRIS integrations are supported when you want them.

Already using another recognition tool?

Switching is a smaller project than it sounds. Your balances come with you, the migration is free on paid plans, and most teams are live within days. Historical kudos do not carry over, so you start with a clean feed and full balances.

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Existing balances convert

Point balances from your current platform convert to Matter coins, so nobody loses what they have already earned.

Migration is free on paid plans

Matter handles the migration at no cost on any paid plan. You share the data, we do the work.

Live in days, not quarters

Teams under 100 people typically switch in 1 to 2 days. Teams under 1,000 are usually done in under a week.

An award-winning platform

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