Recognition & rewards on human-powered autopilot.
Like a good night's sleep, it's easy enough to get away without strong recognition on any given day. We all know it's important, but it's hard to prioritise consistently. Zuzo makes appreciation automatic and puts the pep back in your culture's step.
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Zuzo is built by the team at Yoyo, out of our Cape Town HQ, where we work with SA's biggest corporates to create delightful loyalty experiences for customers across the country's retail world.
What was once a humble, emoji-driven voting system in a shoutout channel in Slack, became a “What if we tried to use our tech in delighting employees and teams too?” and eventually birthed Zuzo. Our name comes from the Zulu and Xhosa word “inzuzo”, meaning benefit or reward.
Today, high-growth tech companies, decorated consultancies, and forward-thinking enterprises rely on Zuzo to cultivate vibrant, appreciative workplace cultures.
The people behind Zuzo
Building the workplace appreciation engine
Geoff
Growth & Product
Gerard
Customer Success
Joseph
Engineering
Rob
Engineering
The people behind the people behind Zuzo
Fintech leaders supporting Zuzo with strategic perspective, enterprise scale, and technical depth.
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Bevan
Yoyo Founder & CEO
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Evan
Yoyo CPO
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Johan
Yoyo CTO
Why we set out to evolve employee recognition
Most employee recognition programs start with the best intentions, but manual administration and periodic reviews can make appreciation feel distant from everyday achievements. When celebrating good work takes extra effort, meaningful moments can easily pass by uncelebrated.
We built Zuzo to bring praise directly into the flow of everyday work. By enabling teammates to celebrate one another in Slack and Teams, appreciation happens naturally in the moment. Automated budgets keep things fair and simple behind the scenes, while teammates get the freedom to choose rewards they genuinely value.
Celebrate teammates right within Slack or Microsoft Teams channels. No separate apps to download or new passwords to remember.
Points convert into real spending power through Mastercard-enabled digital cards or our extensive global marketplace. Spend on what matters most to each recipient.
Peer recognition elevates backstage brilliance. Empowering team members to recognise the everyday heroes who make extraordinary things happen.
Understand sentiment, track alignment with company values, and celebrate engagement across departments with actionable leadership analytics.
The principles guiding our work
We're on a mission to take recognition from being a once-quarterly afterthought to becoming the heartbeat of everyday team culture. To do this we must make it joyfully easy, uncompromisingly human, and splendidly rewarding.
Human-First Autopilot
The magic of recognition is in one colleague noticing another and saying so. That is irreplaceably human. For everything else, things should run so quietly and smoothly that nobody even notices them.
Total Reward Freedom
Let people choose what is most rewarding to them by giving them increasingly universal choice.
Zero Friction
Appreciating a colleague should feel as natural as sending a quick message. Zuzo should be seamlessly embedded into the tools people already use everyday.
With the Team, not to the Team
Recognition is at its most powerful when everyone has a part to play in celebrating the good work that they are uniquely positioned to see. Top-down has its place, but team-wide is the foundation.
ZUZO
Noun
[n.]- –plugs into your existing chat workspace
- –to drive a culture of open shoutouts
- –that push cash rewards into a digital wallet
- –which employees can spend virtually anywhere
Verb
[v. tr.]“That was a world-class presentation - I’m going to Zuzo you big time for that”
Keen to learn more?
Book a fast, personalised demo to see how Zuzo can boost your eNPS, reinforce company values, and transform how your team celebrates wins.