How To Use Facebook Employee Badges

Social media recognition is an excellent way to recognize your employees publicly, and Facebook workplace badges can fulfill this purpose. Here we will discuss how you can use Facebook employee badges.

There are both automatic and manual ways to award badges to your employees. Automatic badges are awarded through certain set rules and cannot be controlled. However, system admin, account managers, content moderators, and any admin with custom roles can manage and control custom workplace badges. We will discuss the manual badge giving steps in detail.

Awarding Manual Badges to Employee as Admin

To reward the employees of your company as admin, you will need to follow these four steps:

1. Go to Admin Panel from your News Feed. You will find it in the left menu.
2. Select Badges to see what you can award to your employees. You will find the word Award next to the badges you can award to your employees.
3. Click Award to distribute badges. You can choose one or multiple individuals to award each badge.
4. After awarding badges choose Close to exit from the Award menu.

Creating Custom Badges on Workplace

With the badges tool, you can create badges to fit your employee’s role more suitably. You can include your own titles and images with those badges. Here are the 5 steps to create your own custom badges on Workplace from your desktop computer:

1. Go to Admin Panel from the left menu of your News Feed
2. Select Badges, then go to Create New Badge
3. Click Upload Image if you want to add a custom image. When you click on that option, you can select an image that you want to use on your badge.
4. Add name and description for the badge. Here you clarify why an employee will get this badge.
5. Click Save

Once you create a badge, you will not be able to edit it. If you want to change the title, image, or description, you will need to delete the badge and make a new one.

Removing Badges Awarded to Your Employees

You may want to change the badge you have awarded your employees in the past for various reasons. In such cases, follow these four steps:

1. Go to Admin Panel from the left menu of your News Feed.
2. Select Badges. You will see a list of badges available for your company. The badges you can reward or remove as admin, you will see the Award icon beside them.
3. If you want to remove a badge, click on the number of people that were rewarded that badge previously. You will see a list of people who got that badge. Click Remove next to the person’s name to remove the badge.
4. After removing badges choose Close to exit from the Award menu.

Disabling Badges from Workplace

If you want to disable a badge from using, follow these three steps:

1. Go to Admin Panel from the left menu of your News Feed
2. Select Badges
3. Below Available, click on the icon to disable or enable a badge.

Bottom Line

Workspaces badges give you the flexibility to recognize your employees publicly easily. If you follow the above-mentioned steps, you can reward or remove badges whenever you want. Make sure to utilize these badges as per your organization’s best interest.