Celebrate Inside Workday: Built on Workday Celebrations App

Expanding the Semos Cloud x Workday Partnership Through Innovation

Semos Cloud’s mission has always been to help organizations build cultures of appreciation and belonging within the tools they already use every day. As a Workday Innovation Partner, we’ve been building integrated solutions for recognition, communication, and total rewards that extend the Workday ecosystem.

Now, we’re deepening that partnership with Celebrate Inside Workday, a Built on Workday app powered by Semos Cloud’s Rewards & Recognition platform. As one of the first Workday partners to deliver a Built on Workday app, this milestone reflects our focus on innovation that brings recognition and celebration capabilities directly into the Workday experience.

Why Milestone Celebrations Break Down in Large Organizations

For years, Semos Cloud has helped organizations bring recognition and rewards into everyday workflows. That experience has shown us a consistent truth: appreciation doesn’t break down because people don’t want to celebrate, but when meaningful moments aren’t visible in the flow of work.

Celebrate Inside Workday solves this by bringing birthdays, anniversaries, promotions, and other moments that matter directly into Workday, where employees and managers can see them and send celebration messages in just a few clicks.

The app connects to the Celebrations module within Semos Cloud’s Rewards & Recognition solution. Employees can see important moments in their colleagues’ lives and send celebration messages directly in Workday. These messages then flow into the Celebrations module, where employees can continue interacting with them and building connection.

Some organizations find milestone celebrations meet all their needs. Others use this as a foundation, expanding into peer recognition, reward programs, nominations, and additional capabilities as their recognition strategy evolves.

A sales team in Austin can celebrate a colleague’s promotion in London the moment it happens, without HR needing to send reminder emails or maintain celebration calendars. When a customer success manager celebrates their third work anniversary, peers from product, engineering, and sales can all send messages recognizing specific contributions. These cross-functional celebrations build connection beyond immediate teams and create a culture where contributions are recognized organization-wide.

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Building Culture at Scale: The Celebrate Inside Workday Approach

Celebrate Inside Workday was designed to address the core challenges that prevent celebrations from happening at scale. Here’s what sets it apart:

Workday-Native Experience

Built as a Workday-native app that leverages Workday’s security, permissions, and interface standards, creating an experience that feels like a natural extension of the platform employees already know.

Culture Activation from Employee Data

Uses existing employee data like birthdates, hire dates, and onboarding dates to surface meaningful moments. It converts static HCM data into dynamic signals of appreciation, automatically putting these moments front and center across teams.

Celebration Messages for Shared Moments

This is where Celebrate Inside Workday truly stands apart. Employees and managers don’t just see that it’s someone’s work anniversary or birthday. They can immediately send personalized celebration messages to colleagues, creating shared moments of appreciation that strengthen connections across the organization.

Unified and Scalable Recognition Flow

Offers a consistent process for celebrations across teams, units, and locations. Whether an employee is in New York or Singapore, the experience remains inclusive and effortless, ensuring every milestone gets the attention it deserves.

Designed for Maximum Adoption

Employees and managers can discover and celebrate colleague milestones directly from Workday, leading to higher participation and more meaningful moments of connection.

HR Value and Governance Built-In

Runs on Workday’s data, audit, and governance infrastructure. Reduces compliance and IT burden, enabling HR to focus on culture and strategy rather than administration.

What This Means for HR, Managers and Employees

For HR teams, Celebrate Inside Workday means fewer workarounds, consolidated systems, and a faster path to culture activation. With milestones surfaced automatically and celebration messages enabled in the same tool your people already use, HR regains time and visibility while enabling broader participation.

For managers, it means a simpler and more meaningful way to acknowledge teams and individuals without managing multiple systems. Sending a celebration message becomes part of the workflow, not an extra task.

For employees, it means every milestone is visible and anyone can celebrate it with a personalized message. Whether you congratulate a colleague for 5 years of service or celebrate someone’s new role, the experience is meaningful and inclusive.

When celebrations become easier to discover and share, the effects ripple across the organization. New hires who receive celebration messages during their first 30 days report stronger connection to their teams. Long-tenured employees who see their service anniversaries recognized feel valued and stay longer. Cross-functional teams that celebrate promotions together build stronger working relationships.

For HR teams, this translates to measurable outcomes: higher engagement scores, improved retention metrics, and increased Workday adoption as employees engage not just for HR tasks but to participate in culture moments. When celebrations happen where work happens, culture stops being an initiative and becomes part of how the organization operates every day.

Find Celebrate Inside Workday on the Workday Marketplace

Celebrate Inside Workday is available on the Workday Marketplace. Review the app details, see how it fits into Workday, and connect with us to learn more.

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Looking Ahead

This launch is just the beginning. With Celebrate Inside Workday live, we’re already working on the next wave of enhancements that will make celebrations even more meaningful and measurable.

As the workplace evolves, recognition, belonging, and culture cannot remain side-projects. They must be native to the systems people use every day. We’re excited for our customers to embed celebration in the heart of work.

If you’re interested in seeing how Celebrate Inside Workday can help your organization strengthen connection, reduce HR administrative work, and make culture visible where work already happens, we’d love to show you. Request a demo to explore how milestone celebrations can become part of your Workday experience.

Introducing Celebrate Inside Workday: A Built on Workday App for Employee Milestone Celebrations

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Expanding the Semos Cloud x Workday Partnership Through Innovation

Why Milestone Celebrations Break Down in Large Organizations