Perks at Work

Perks at Work is an employee perks platform combining extensive shopping discounts with classes, points, and workplace recognition. It suits employers wanting a broad benefit that employees can use personally and at work, particularly when a no-cost program matters. The compromise is that analytics and custom branding require an enterprise organization with more than 500 employees.

Overview

Members receive access to more than 30,000 national and local discounts spanning over 20 categories. The service also includes wellness and learning content, rewards through WOWPoints, and culture applications for peer feedback and recognition. Next Jump, Inc., which began in 1994 as a coupon business, operates the technology behind the platform.

Perks at Work can remain free because participating brands pay commissions on purchases made through the service. That model removes a direct employer or employee subscription charge, while making the shopping marketplace central to the product’s value.

Key features

Discount marketplace

The breadth of national and local offers gives employees many practical ways to use the benefit, rather than limiting the program to a single reward type. The mobile app supports in-store offers and mobile redemption of WOWPoints, which is useful for employees who shop away from a desktop.

WOWPoints and recognition

Members earn WOWPoints through shopping, and the employer program says company recognition can award points too. Employees can redeem them like cash on future purchases, linking everyday savings with an employer’s recognition activity. Culture apps add peer feedback and recognition tools, although the platform is less focused on formal reward-program administration than dedicated recognition products.

Community Online Academy and AI coaching

Community Online Academy provides free live and on-demand classes for adults and children, including wellness and personal development subjects. Members can also email [email protected] for free executive coaching and receive a response in under one minute. These services broaden the benefit beyond discounts, especially for households and employees seeking development resources.

Support and privacy

Members can submit support tickets. Merchant questions about order tracking, shipping, returns, and products must go directly to the merchant, so Perks at Work is not a single point of resolution for every purchase. Next Jump’s privacy policy says it does not sell personal data or disclose it for other valuable consideration.

Pricing

The free plan is the clear fit for employers that want discounts, classes, recognition, and points without a subscription bill. The company’s pricing note says paid plans start at $50/yr, so organizations needing paid capabilities should budget from that level; pricing beyond the free offering is custom. Businesses under the 500-employee enterprise threshold can use the self-service option, but they cannot receive the stated analytics and custom-branding capabilities.

Platforms

Perks at Work runs on the web and has apps for Android and iOS. The mobile applications support in-store offers and mobile WOWPoints redemption, making the service suitable for employees who want to use benefits while shopping in person.

Who it's for

The platform is aimed at employers seeking an enterprise perks and discounts program, with self-service onboarding for businesses with fewer than 500 employees. It is especially appropriate when a workforce will value consumer savings, family-accessible classes, and recognition-linked points. Larger enterprises that require program analytics or custom branding are the intended audience for those capabilities. Organizations seeking a tightly configurable HR analytics suite should look elsewhere unless they meet that enterprise threshold.

Pros and cons

• Pro: More than 30,000 discounts across over 20 categories give employees a broad marketplace rather than a narrow perk.
• Pro: Free classes for adults and children, plus free executive coaching, add development and wellness value beyond shopping.
• Pro: Employers and employees can access the core program at no charge because brands fund it through purchase commissions.
• Pro: WOWPoints work across shopping and company recognition and can be redeemed like cash on later purchases.
• Con: Analytics and custom branding are limited to enterprise clients with more than 500 employees, reducing flexibility for smaller organizations.
• Con: Merchant order, shipping, return, and product issues require direct contact with the merchant, creating a split support experience.

Alternatives

Bonusly is a better fit for a small recognition program needing a forever-free plan for up to eight users, Slack and Teams integrations, and mobile apps.

Guusto suits teams that want to send rewards through a free plan with no minimum reward spend and more than 100 merchant options, with paid sender-seat pricing for expanded use.

Hoppier is preferable when digital gift cards are the priority: its free-to-start Lite plan charges a 5% fee only when rewards are sent and covers 3,000-plus brands in over 60 countries.

ThriveSparrow Rewards Marketplace is an option for organizations wanting a paid rewards marketplace alongside free modules such as one-on-ones and feedback.

BenefitHub provides a free-to-offer, fully managed employee benefits service.

GoProfiles is better for teams wanting an employee directory, org chart, map, bravos, and achievements through a free plan.

Giftbit fits reward programs that need API and web delivery with no subscription or platform fees, while charging a 2.9% credit-card funding fee.

Gifted offers a web-based free gifting plan with no platform, seat, or setup fees, plus stated card and international-exchange fees.

See more options in Employee Rewards Software.

Verdict

Choose Perks at Work if you want a wide discount marketplace combined with classes, recognition, and points at no charge to employers and employees. Its main reason to look elsewhere is the enterprise-only access to analytics and custom branding, which makes it less suitable for smaller organizations needing deeper program configuration.