On-line employee incentive system

A method for providing an on-line employee loyalty program, said method comprising:

• providing reward points to an employer, whereby an employer may issue the reward points to selected ones of the employer's employees in response to the selected employees engaging in behavior that the employer wishes to encourage, said reward points being redeemable by the employee for an award;
• providing an on-line employer communication portal accessible to the employer via a computer, said employer communication portal being constructed and arranged to enable the employer to request and manage reward points and to issue reward points to respective accounts of the selected employees;
• providing an on-line employee communication portal accessible to employees of the employer via a computer, said employee communication portal being constructed and arranged to enable the employee to access the employee's account to monitor the number of accumulated reward points;
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• providing an on-line reward point redemption portal accessible to the employees through said employee communication portal, said reward point redemption portal being constructed and arranged to enable the employee to select one or more awards for which to redeem a specified number of reward points accumulated in the account of the employee.

A computer readable medium having instructions encoded thereon for causing an electronic computer system to implement a method for providing an on-line employee loyalty program, said method comprising:

• providing reward points to an employer, whereby an employer may issue reward points to selected ones of the employer's employees in response to the selected employees engaging in behavior that the employer wishes to encourage, said reward points being redeemable by the employee for an award;
• providing an on-line employer communication portal accessible to the employer via a computer, said employer communication portal being constructed and arranged to enable the employer to request and manage reward points and to issue reward points to respective accounts of the selected employees;
• providing an on-line employee communication portal accessible to employees of the employer via a computer, said employee communication portal being constructed and arranged to enable the employee to access the employee's account to monitor the number of accumulated reward points;
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• providing an on-line reward point redemption portal accessible to the employees through said employee communication portal, said reward point redemption portal being constructed and arranged to enable the employee to select one or more awards for which to redeem a specified number of reward points accumulated in the account of the employee.

A method for providing an points-based employee incentive program, said method comprising;

• evaluating demographics of an employer's employees;
• providing reward points to the employer, whereby the employer may issue the reward points to selected ones of the employer's employees in response to the selected employees engaging in behavior that the employer wishes to encourage;
• providing a first communication link between the employer and the employee enabling the employer to issue reward points to the employee;
• providing an award option that includes a selection of awards including awards chosen based on the demographics of the employees, wherein said reward points issued by the employer to the employee are redeemable by the employee for an award selected from the award option;
• maintaining an inventory of awards contained in the award option;
• proving a second communication link enabling the employee to communicate a redemption request and award selection;
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• providing to the employee, in response to said redemption request and award selection, the selected award from said inventory of awards.