Perkbox Review

Perkbox is a rewards and recognition program that offers companies and their employees a way to deal with the high cost of living. Find out more in this article

Perkbox Review

Updated: May 20, 2025

Rising costs and shrinking wallets remain a concern for employees everywhere. According to a 2024 study, 60 percent of employees worry about their finances once a week. Twenty-one percent worry about money every day.

This is where rewards and recognition platform Perkbox comes in. It has positioned itself as a tool that offers cost-of-living support through its wide range of discounts and benefits. In this review, we’ll explore what Perkbox is about and what it has to offer. We’ll look at how it works, how it integrates with other HR systems, and what makes it stand out.

What is Perkbox?

Perkbox is a rewards and benefits platform that motivates your employees through:

  • a catalog of over 9,000 discounts and benefits
  • a rewards and recognition system for your workforce regardless of size or location
  • a wellbeing platform covering exercise and mindfulness
  • a centralized platform for company news and updates

These are all housed on one platform, giving your HR team easy access to every feature.

Perkbox is part of HRD’s top 10 best employee rewards programs.

How does Perkbox work?

Perkbox supports your company’s rewards and recognition and well-being efforts through these channels:

  • Perks and benefits
  • Well-being support
  • Employee rewards
  • Peer-to-peer recognition
  • Culture and communication
  • Admin features

Let’s take a closer look at each to better understand how Perkbox works.

Key features and capabilities

Perks and benefits

With this feature, you can:

  • show all your company benefits in one place
  • offer over 9,000 discounts to your employees from brands like Agoda, Apple, and Spotify
  • give free items such as drinks and takeaway food through a points system

You can get detailed reports on employee usage of this tool. Perkbox’s data can show you:

  • how much your employees have saved in using their points
  • how often employees are using perks and discounts  
  • how many points your employees have spent

Under this perks and benefits feature, your employees can enjoy Flexi Perks. This allows them to use points for a gift or reward of their choice. They can use the points right away – for a daily latte, for example – or save these toward a bigger expense.

Well-being support

Perkbox’s well-being support module provides a wide range of on-demand content to support your team’s mental and physical health. It caters to the needs of all employees and includes the following:

  • access to a wide range of content from meditation guides to workout videos to soothing sleep stories
  • access to the content anytime, anywhere on their smartphone, laptop, tablet or smartwatch
  • quality content that's ad-free

By taking care of your employees’ well-being, you can also improve engagement levels.

Employee rewards

Perkbox’s reward platform allows you to give employees digital points that can be redeemed for over 8,500 rewards, including physical products and gift cards.

colorful gift cards, including Apple and Amazon

Under this feature, you can:

  • attach personalized messages to rewards
  • link these messages to company values
  • customize privacy settings (i.e., make message visible to the individual, to their team, or the entire company)

Anyone with Perkbox admin access can purchase points via credit card or bank transfer. Admin can allocate these points to your managers/team leaders. They can then use these points to reward their team members.

Peer-to-peer recognition

This Perkbox feature allows employees to recognize their peers through a personalized message. Just like with rewards, these messages can be linked to a company value to further strengthen corporate culture.

Managers and team leads can also attach points, giving their team members the option to choose from products, vouchers or gift cards.

Culture and communication

Make sure your employees are on the same page – literally – by having all company updates and announcements on one platform.

With Perkbox, you can:

  • share anything you want using custom cards, from new policies to fun videos to people initiatives
  • create links to resources relevant to your team
  • make communications available to employees anytime, anywhere through the mobile app

Coworkers joining hands, symbolizing Perkbox's role in fostering team connection and shared support

Admin features

HR officers with admin permissions on Perkbox can manage settings and functions for all modules – perks, wellbeing, rewards, recognition, culture – in one central area. Other features that simplify platform management include:

  • single sign on (SSO) for a simple yet secure login process
  • straightforward onboarding/offboarding via integrations with select human resource information systems (HRIS) - see list in the next section
  • ability to customize headings and colors to promote your company brand

The admin function also allows you to view reports across modules. You can go for a big-picture view or go into more detail, depending on what data you need. This way, you’ll see first-hand the impact that a benefits and rewards platform like Perkbox is making on your workforce.

These reports can, for example, show you how much your employees use Perkbox and how much they’ve saved.

Integrations

Perkbox integrates with other tools and platforms so there’s no need to change your existing HR or IT setup.

Single sign on integrations

Okta

Google Workspace

 

Microsoft Azure

 

JumpCloud

 

VM Ware

OpenID

 

OneLogin

 

Oracle Cloud

With SSO, logging in becomes an easy yet secure process – no need to remember separate passwords across platforms.

HRIS integrations

Workday

 

HiBob

 

BambooHR

 

Microsoft Azure

 

Okta

 

Google Workspace

 

Fourth

 

Rippling

 

 

With directory syncing, you can add/delete users and activate/deactivate accounts as part of your onboarding and offboarding processes.

Plans and pricing

Perkbox does not provide pricing information, which is a common practice for most HR software service providers and sellers. The website’s pricing page has a contact sales form where you’ll need to give details such as your name, phone number, email, and company size.

We filled in the form and got a call the next day from a Perkbox R&R and benefits strategist. He went over some questions we had, some of which were about pricing.

Perkbox pricing varies depending on company size. Here's a ballpark figure: a company with 25 employees can expect to pay around AU$15 per employee per month. This amount comes with all the modules we discussed earlier.

For more accurate figures based on your company size and needs, contact the Perkbox sales team via the pricing page on their website.

After-sales and customer services

The Perkbox support team is available via web chat, web call, or email. They operate on UK time: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm GMT. Their contact page has a form that you can complete, should you need help.

The website also has a section on Q&As and articles to support clients with troubleshooting and self-help. We looked around and found the Perkbox launch guide to be informative and helpful.  

What makes Perkbox stand out?

From what we’ve seen, Perkbox has two features that caught our eye:

‘Values’ tag in rewards and recognition modules

One unique feature of Perkbox is the ability to include a values tag in the recognition and rewards modules. This helps organizations reinforce their company culture by recognizing employees who practice these company values. It also helps people see if their employer “walks the talk” as far as values go.

Here’s a snapshot of how that works:

Recognition is a form of feedback, which is one of the ways to build a healthy company culture.

Approach to cost-of-living concerns

Perkbox has taken the approach of dealing with cost-of-living crisis through perks and discounts to help stretch employees’ salary. This is an effective strategy, as it addresses a major pain point of employees everywhere.

In a survey done in Australia, three out of four employees felt that their income has not caught up with rising costs. By offering freebies and discounts on food, clothing, and groceries, Perkbox helps employees make the most of their budget.

On their success stories page, each case study describes how their clients use Perkbox and how these translate into savings. Case in point: healthcare company Medichecks shows a 99 percent activation rate and £14,000 (around $18,000) in savings.

Company overview

Year established: 2015
Size (number of employees): between 51 and 200 (LinkedIn)
Global locations: UK and Australia 
Businesses served: 4,000+
Key people: Doug Butler (CEO), Ankur Sharma (chief product and technology officer), Natalie Jutla (head of financial wellbeing and workplace strategy), Louis Kwakye (Group CRO)

Perkbox started out under a different name: Huddlebuy, a group discount platform for small businesses, co-founded by Saurav Chopra and Chieu Cao. After trying different approaches and learning from early challenges, the founders shifted their focus to employee engagement. Perkbox was officially launched in 2015.

In March 2024, Perkbox announced its merger with UK-based employee benefits platform Vivup. The goal was to bring together Vivup’s public sector reach and well-being services with Perkbox’s global rewards and recognition tools.

Together, Perkbox and Vivup support over 4 million employees across 7,500 organizations. This includes 85 percent of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

Visit our Best in HR special reports page for a look at other rewards and recognition programs.

Is Perkbox the right choice for your company?

Perkbox is a rewards and recognition platform that also includes tools for culture and communication, and a dedicated well-being platform. While Perkbox is available worldwide, customer support operates only during business hours GMT. This could put organizations on the other side of the globe at a disadvantage.

Consider these factors when deciding to go with Perkbox. Test the platform yourself by requesting a sales call and demo. If Perkbox isn’t a good fit, read our reviews of other benefits and rewards programs to widen your options:

Make sure that the brand you choose has a robust rewards program that can support and motivate employees. If it can help ease the strain of the cost-of-living crisis, that would be a welcome bonus.

Would you consider Perkbox for your organization? Let us know why (or why not) in the comments below