Employee Gamification Examples & Ideas for Digital Signage

So you're thinking about adding digital signage gamification to your workplace. Hooray! That means you already know the benefits it has on engagement, performance, and problem-solving skills.

The problem is, you need ideas. That's why we're giving you 13 examples to riff on. 😉

Let's look closer at some employee gamification examples for digital signage, plus the tips, tools, and best practices that will bring them to life.

But first: why does employee engagement gamification even matter?

You're likely already familiar with the benefits of gamification: they engage learners, boost customer loyalty, and motivate students to do their best.

Honestly, it's not that much different in an employee context. The right gamification initiative can help increase engagement, encourage users in completing tasks, and ultimately create a fun experience that keeps your team moving together as a unit.

But while most people think gamification is ‘an enterprise thing,’ the truth is that even small businesses can set up gamification for their teams. It’s mostly thanks to digital signage these days — the easiest way to display information at scale (even to frontline workers who can't sit behind desks).

Using gamification with digital signage is an amazing way to get the benefits of both.

Just see for yourself:

• Digital signage captures attention 400% more than static displays. They're also more likely to get repeat attention, which is perfect for businesses needing to share dynamic objectives, goals, and other changing KPIs.
• Nine in 10 people say that game mechanics at the workplace make them 90% more productive than before. It also motivates them to do more tasks and work harder, whether that's filling up progress bars by booking more calls or learning objectives for training knowledge retention.

Put them all together, and you get a surefire way to boost employee interest, engagement, and attention.

Jarrad Woliver, Learning and Development Strategist and 411 BPO, sums it up well:

"Gamification is critical not only for performance but also for employee engagement. It provides leaders with a means to build intrinsic motivation within their teams, which is essential for fostering a strong organizational culture. By incorporating elements like challenges, leaderboards, and incentives, organizations can transform routine tasks into interactive and rewarding experiences. When done right, gamification will drive productivity, retention, and a culture of continuous growth and most importantly, enthusiasm."

13 examples of employee gamification for your digital signage

Now that you're itching to put employee gamification on the big screen, let's take a closer look at some examples that can move the needle.

You'll notice we broke these down into three separate categories: performance, engagement, and learning gamification.

We'll start with the first section on our list:

Performance gamification examples

Performance gamification is exactly what it sounds like: helping employees do their very best. There are many different ways to go about this, but the ultimate goal is encouraging users to do their best.

Let’s start with one of the most obvious examples:

1. Points and rewards

A points and rewards system lets you treat employees based on their productivity, quality, or work performance. Depending on your business, this could be booking calls for the sales team, answering questions for customers, or going above and beyond when solving problems for other users.

There are many different ways to give out points and rewards. Some businesses rely purely on peer feedback and select a winner based on popular vote. Others use gamification platforms so team members can rank one another and give extra points that count towards items in the prize pool.

With the help of digital signage, you can show off the value of said points. For example, maybe employees who reach 500 points in a month can get a free extra day of PTO. Or maybe if all employees reach a collective number of points (like 100,000), everyone in the company gets a paid-for vacation.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Points leaderboard: Show the top earners and their current rankings.
• Rewards catalog: Display what employees can redeem with their points.
• Recent redemptions: Highlight when someone cashes in points for a reward.
• Teamwide reward progress: Track collective point milestones that unlock company-wide perks.
• Weekly or monthly top earners: Celebrate employees who earned the most points in a given period.

2. Leaderboard challenges

Leaderboard challenges tap into employees’ natural drive for competition by ranking them based on performance metrics like sales, customer service ratings, or task completion. There are two ways to do this: tracking individual progress (creating instant motivation to push for the top spot), or tracking group progress (best for nor hurting feelings).

With digital signage, leaderboard dashboards become a real-time focal point in the workplace and give employees instant visibility on their rankings. Consider making a screen displaying top performers and goal progress to keep everyone engaged. You could also showcase progress bars as a collective group so you don't accidentally discourage new employees (more on this later).

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Top performers of the day/week/month: Display current leaderboard rankings to keep the competition alive.
• Goal progress tracking: Show how close individuals or teams are to hitting their next milestone.
• Real-time deal wins: Announce when someone closes a sale or achieves a key metric.
• Team leaderboards: Compare different departments or locations to fuel friendly competition.
• Personal bests and record breakers: Highlight employees who have set new performance records.

3. Streak challenges

Streak challenges reward consistency by encouraging employees to maintain daily or weekly habits, like logging in, completing reports, or hitting sales goals. The longer the streak, the bigger the incentive — whether it's recognition, perks, or leaderboard status.

You can use digital signage to make streaks a visible motivator, such as showcasing top streak-holders and longest-running records. Seeing their progress on a live display fuels employees' drive to keep their momentum going and avoid breaking the streak (Snapchat style).

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Longest Active Streaks: Highlight employees with the most impressive streaks (e.g., “Sarah – 45 days of on-time reports!”).
• Streak Milestone Celebrations: Announce when someone reaches a major streak goal (e.g., “Jake just hit 100 consecutive daily logins!”).
• Team vs. Team Streak Competitions: Display which department or team is maintaining the longest streak collectively.
• “Don’t Break the Streak” Alerts: Countdown reminders for employees close to losing their streak (e.g., “You have 4 hours left to check in!”).
• Reward Unlock Announcements: Show real-time updates when someone earns a reward for hitting a streak milestone.

4. Sales or goal-based badges

Badges are a fun, visual way to recognize employees for hitting key sales milestones or achieving specific goals. You might award these for closing a big deal, completing a training module, or exceeding monthly targets. Either way, badges give employees a sense of accomplishment and fuel their motivation to keep pushing forward.

Now just imagine what you can do with digital signage plus digital badges: they’re basically a public celebration. You might have a screen showcasing newly earned badges, top badge collectors, or limited-time challenges that create excitement and keep employees engaged in the competition.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Recent Badge Earners: Announce when someone unlocks a new badge (e.g., “Emma just earned the ‘Deal Closer’ badge!”).
• Badge Progress Trackers: Show employees how close they are to earning their next achievement.
• Limited-Time Badge Challenges: Display special challenges with exclusive badges (e.g., “Sell 10 units this week to earn the ‘Speed Seller’ badge!”).
• Top Badge Collectors: Highlight employees with the most badges earned.
• Team-Based Badge Competitions: Showcase which department has earned the most badges in a given timeframe.

5. Task completion races

Task completion races are a fantastic way to inject a little fun into everyday work, whether that's finishing a project, responding to customer inquiries, or hitting a productivity milestone. Employees can compete individually or in teams, and seeing the progress in real-time adds an extra layer of excitement.

What happens when you add a little digital signage into the mix? Now, you've got a live scoreboard! The competition heats up when everyone can see how they're stacking up. Plus, real-time updates keep everyone engaged and motivated to finish strong.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Live Task Leaderboard: Display a real-time leaderboard showing who’s completing tasks the fastest or who’s ahead in the race to finish a project.
• Completion Progress Bars: Use dynamic progress bars to show how much each person or team has accomplished (and where they stand in relation to others).
• Timed Challenges: Announce limited-time challenges, such as "Complete 5 tasks before lunch and get a prize!" to keep things moving quickly.
• Top Performers: Spotlight top performers by showing who completed the most tasks in a given period. This could change weekly, monthly, or even daily.
• Team Task Showdown: Create a lighthearted competition between teams to spark friendly competition and drive results.

Engagement gamification examples

Unlike performance gamification, engagement gamification is all about people (not numbers). This might include collaborating with team members, getting involved on social media, or building relationships between members of your team — basically a win-win for everyone.

Speaking of teams, let's start with a team-based gamification example:

6. Team-based competitions

Team-based competitions are a great way to boost team collaboration while sparking a little friendly rivalry. When departments or teams compete for performance-based rewards, the sense of camaraderie grows, and everyone has a common goal to work toward.

You can use digital signage to boost the excitement and keep everyone motivated. This might be hitting sales targets, completing projects, or even reaching operational milestones. Either way, it's a visual reminder of how each team is performing, and seeing the leaderboard updates throughout the day fuels healthy competition and drives teams to do their best.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Team Progress Tracker: Display a visual progress tracker showing how each department or team is doing toward their performance goals.
• Live Team Leaderboard: Showcase a real-time leaderboard of competing teams, highlighting who’s leading in various metrics, like sales or project completion. “Team Alpha: 1st place with 100 tasks completed” could rotate on screen as teams race toward their targets.
• Team Achievements: Celebrate milestones by flashing team accomplishments, like “Team Bravo completed 50 projects this month!” on screen.
• Competition Countdown: Add a countdown clock to build anticipation for the final deadline (e.g. “48 hours left to reach the goal!”)
• Winning Team Spotlight: Highlight the winning team at the end of the competition, saying something like, “Congrats to Team A for hitting 110% of their target!”

7. Recognition wall

A recognition wall is a fantastic way to celebrate wins (both big and small) and make sure every effort gets its moment in the spotlight. It's also a great way to show employees that every achievement counts and deserves to be celebrated, whether or not they're a 'top performer' in terms of metrics.

When you throw digital signage into the mix, you can create a virtual hall of fame that inspires everyone on your team. It gets even easier if you use a social media wall. This can be integrated with company intranets like Slack and show off real-time updates as employees add them (such as “kudos to @Alex_M for acing that presentation last week!”).

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Spotlight of the Day: Rotate daily shout-outs for employees who went the extra mile.
• Milestone Celebrations: As a company, you could highlight big wins like completing projects, hitting targets, or celebrating work anniversaries (and maybe sometimes real anniversaries).
• Peer-to-Peer Kudos: Encourage employees to recognize one another by featuring digital sticky notes of praise. That way, messages like “Big thanks to Chris for always having our back!” can be shared for everyone to see.
• Achievement Highlights: Create a dynamic gallery showcasing various awards, badges, or special recognitions, like “Congrats to the Marketing team for a record-breaking quarter!”
• Interactive Wall: Wanna get fancy with touch content? Let employees tap on names and type in a message in real time.

8. Social engagement challenges

Speaking of social media, you might want to think about social engagement challenges. This is a fun way to get employees interacting with your company’s social platforms while earning points for their efforts.

You can choose to measure social engagement in all sorts of ways, whether it’s liking posts, commenting, sharing, or creating content. No matter the options, it encourages everyone to participate, build a stronger online community, and have a little fun along the way.

Digital signage can spice things up by adding real-time updates and allowing employees to see how they’re stacking up against their peers. Plus, the instant recognition of a social media wall can make social engagement feel more rewarding (and possibly more funny if there's an inside joke involved).

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Recent Top Contributors: Highlight employees who are leading the charge in engagement, such as “Congrats to @Jamie_D for earning the most points this week!”
• Engagement Leaderboard: Display a real-time leaderboard that shows who’s racking up the most points by posting, sharing, or commenting.
• Challenge Announcements: Introduce themed challenges like “Post your best project photo today for double points!”
• Real-Time Social Feed: Display a live feed of top posts from employees.
• Milestone Rewards: Celebrate when an employee hits a big social engagement milestone with an exciting on-screen shout-out, like “5K engagement points – awesome job, Alex!”

9. Random acts of kindness

Love random acts of kindness? Too shy to call them out yourself? Then you're going to love combining them with digital signage! This is a unique way to encourage employees to spread positivity by shouting out teammates who are going above and beyond.

Examples of this could include:

• Someone offering mentorship (even when they don’t have to)
• Someone doing something good when no one is watching
• Someone going out of their way to make a customer's day better

It’s a simple, lighthearted way to create a supportive and kind workplace culture.

Digital signage can make your idea come to life by encouraging team members to 'tell' on one another. You can even have anonymous shout-outs or pop ups. Mentions like, “I saw Brett do this awesome thing today — way to go!” are great ways to encourage everyone to keep spreading kindness.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Bingo Boards: Show a live, updating bingo board with marked-off actions like “Helped a teammate” or “Mentored a new hire” and let team members submit names to the board.
• Anonymous Shout-Outs: Display anonymous messages like, “I saw Angie go above and beyond!"
• Public Celebrations: Celebrate when a team or individual completes real-world humanitarian efforts, with a shout-out like “Congrats to Team Bravo for volunteering this weekend!"
• Customer Review of the Week: Let your customers speak for themselves by highlighting reviews that mention team members by name.
• Milestone Celebrations: Celebrate birthdays and retirements by reminiscing on a person's past kindnesses (e.g., "I remember when Kevin supported me as a new hire. Gonna miss you in retirement, bud!").

10. Employee trivia contests

Trivia contests let you test your employee's knowledge of the company, their role, or corporate training initiatives (like adopting a new platform). Correct answers earn points, rewards, or simply bragging rights. The ultimate goal is to boost:

• Product knowledge
• New knowledge
• Knowledge of each other

Digital signage makes trivia contests even more fun. For example, you could display live questions and scores on the screen to add real-time excitement. You could also make this an interactive experience: users can submit their own questions to be included on-screen.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Live Trivia Question: Display the trivia question, like “What’s the official company mascot?” and watch employees scramble to write answers.
• Top Scores: Showcase top learners with fun, encouraging messages.
• Trivia Countdown: Add a countdown clock for extra pressure (this can still be useful for week-long trivia questions).
• Employee of the Week: Let team members guess facts about other team members. This is a great way to boost engagement and break the ice for new employees.
• Weekly Trivia Theme: Introduce fun weekly themes, like “This week’s trivia is about our language learning app."

Employee learning gamification examples

While we're on the subject of employee learning, you can also use gamification to

11. Certification challenges

Certification challenges are a fun way to gamify professional development by rewarding employees for achieving milestone certs. The definition, of course, is up to you: a 'certification' could be completing an industry-recognized course or finishing something like a LinkedIn Learning course.

With digital signage, you show off who’s earned new certifications, celebrate achievements, and motivate others to join the challenge. The constant stream of recognition makes professional growth feel like a team effort. Plus, it encourages everyone to root for each other’s success.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Celebrate Certifications: Highlight employees who’ve earned a certification with a message like, “Congrats to Sarah for earning her ‘Certified Project Manager’ certification this week!”
• Training Leaderboard: Display a leaderboard showing which employees have completed the most training in a given time period.
• Announce Training: Let team members know when you have trainings available (plus who's on the roster so they know who their 'classmates' will be).
• Group Certification Challenges: Create department-wide challenges where your whole team works toward earning certifications. Then, display which teams are closest to hitting their goals.

12. Skill level-up system

Who says training can’t feel like an RPG? A skill level-up system turns professional development into a gamified adventure where employees gain experience points for completing training milestones, unlocking new skills, and learning objectives they'll need in their role.

With digital signage, employees can track their progress in real time, see who's leveling up, and get inspired to chase that next achievement. The more they learn, the higher they climb. This is especially fun for onboarding new employees.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• XP Progress Bars: Display live XP bars so employees can see how close they are to reaching their next 'level.'
• Recent Level-Ups: Announce when someone levels up, with messages like, “Congrats to Jake for hitting Level 7: Sales Guru!”
• Top Level-Holders: Feature a leaderboard of the highest-level employees to inspire friendly competition.
• Training Streaks: Highlight employees who are consistently completing training modules to rack up XP. For example, this might read: “Chris has logged training progress 10 days in a row!”
• Secret Level-Up Perks: Tease hidden bonuses for hitting certain levels (like lunch with the CEO or a mystery prize) to keep employees engaged.

13. Idea pitch competitions

Great ideas can come from anywhere, and idea pitch competitions are the perfect way to let employees showcase their creativity. You can think of this like a social media wall, but for passing thoughts: like a new product, a smarter workflow, or a wild-but-brilliant innovation. Employees then vote for their favorites, which ultimately move to your decision-makers and possibly get implemented,

Digital signage keeps the competition front and center by showcasing submissions, tracking votes, and celebrating winning ideas. Seeing your idea up on the screen? Instant bragging rights. But you can also make submissions anonymous so employees don't feel nervous about voicing their opinions.

💡 Ideas to Show on Digital Signage

• Winning Ideas Spotlight: Highlight the best ideas and ask people to vote on them.
• Idea Leaderboard: Display the top-voted ideas in real time.
• Before & After Impact: Show the real-world results of past winning ideas. “Last quarter’s winner: New customer feedback system. Now improving response time by 35%!”
• Vote Countdowns: Keep employees engaged by displaying a countdown to the voting deadline.
• Honorable Mentions: Give a shout-out to clever ideas that didn’t win but deserve recognition.

Tips and tricks for employee engagement gamification

Brainstorming ideas for gamification? Easy. Putting them into practice? A little less so.

But the good news is that there are always tips and tricks that can help make it easier.

That's why we got in touch with several gamification experts to round up advice while implementing gamification at your workplace.

Tip 1: Keep an eye out for destructive gamification

Some team members thrive with leaderboards or dashboards. Others may feel self-conscious and start falling into social comparisons. This could ultimately lead them to questioning their performance and end up creating poor morale at work.

How much does poor work morale matter? Probably more than you know. In fact, it's one of the biggest reasons why a whopping 80% of gamification projects fail dramatically during implementation (looking at you, Wuppermann Steel).

So it's a good idea to regularly get a pulse on what's going on with your gamification elements, including whether or not they're driving good behavior. If they're not motivating users (and instead upsetting your team), you might want to overhaul your strategy or switch game elements to be more fun.

“Workplace competition can be extremely destructive to company morale, especially during weak and uncertain economic conditions where people are preoccupied with getting laid off. On the other hand, collaborative team dynamics are much more common in start up companies because employees often get paid with equity. In that case, employees only “win” if the entire company stays competitive against the industry giants that are stagnant and competing internally. It’s a collaborative Group Quest as opposed to an individualized Leaderboard which compels the employee’s motivation to fulfill their company’s mission and create subsequent equity value.” ― Yu-kai Chou, Author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

Tip 2: Reward everyday tasks and intangible growth

There's nothing wrong with rewarding hard numbers, like point systems for sales teams or habit streaks for new employees. But while working in these different buckets, don't lose sight of the real goal: helping the people on your team strive after overall business success.

Collaboration, conversations, and amazing displays of customer satisfaction deserve their own reward system (whatever that looks like for your business). Think about ways you can better support 'intangible' employee engagement with game mechanics like award badges, loyalty programs, or public recognition.

"We found that when companies gamify activities beyond just sales numbers - like rewarding collaboration, creative outreach, or even referrals - the [user engagement] goes through the roof. It’s about creating an environment where people genuinely want to take action." — Steve Claydon, founder of Outbound Game

Tip 3: Go beyond the kitschy

Should gamification include point systems and digital badges? If you want it to, sure. But should that be its end-all-be-all? Absolutely not, unless you don't care about the longevity of your program.

See, there are two different types of motivation:

• Extrinsic motivation: Tools like badges, points, challenges, or instant feedback. For example, this might manifest as counting how many points you've racked up in a week.
• Intrinsic motivation: Tools like leaderboards, levels, avatars, and/or personal fulfillment. This means people are driven to accomplish their goals purely because it's fulfilling to them.

You need a blend of both types to meaningfully impact employee engagement. This means leaning into the enjoyment side of your gamification elements, like public recognition, progress bars, and affirming messages from leaders.

Case in point: Microsoft's Language Quality Game.

When rolling out Windows in different languages, Microsoft noticed translation errors slipping through the cracks. So instead of relying solely on the usual translation team, they gamified it with the The Language Quality Game.

This was a company-wide competition where 4,500 Microsoft employees (even those who weren’t translators) joined forces to hunt down and correct translation errors. The rules? Spot an error, earn points for your team, and climb the leaderboard for bragging rights.

This ended up being a monumental success, even without badges or monetary rewards. Instead, it tapped into something deeper than competition and made employees feel like they were actively improving a product used by millions.

The bottom line? When work feels like a mission instead of a chore, people will go above and beyond to bring their A-game.

"The assumption that gamification is only adding some points, leaderboards and badges will make an experience fun is not true – there is so much more to consider when designing good gamification. Remember: the purpose of gamification is that people engage and feel motivated to for example change behaviors, develop a skill or even solve complex problems." — Ricardo Russ, Founder of KeepThemEngaged

Best gamification platforms for digital signage programs

So now that you've got all these ideas swirling in your head, it's time to actually bring them to life.

And sure — you can bring all of these to life with the help of Fugo, but it's a whole lot easier with digital signage integrations.

Let's briefly look at the best gamification platforms so you can integrate gamification directly into your digital signage.

Pssst — want a closer look at gamification tools? Check out our guide to the top 8 sales gamification software.

OneUp Sales: Best for gamifying CRM data

• Price: ~$450 USD per month for five users
• Free trial: ❌
• Digital signage integration: ✔️

OneUp Sales transforms CRM data into real-time gamification, which gives teams access to visualized leaderboards, instant performance tracking, and automated sales challenges. The ultimate goal is to make pipeline activity more engaging so sales reps stay focused and motivated at work.

Some of OneUp Sales' most popular features include:

• CRM-powered leaderboards: Automatically track and rank sales activity
• Live goal tracking: Display progress toward key sales targets
• Call and email tracking: Sync your tool with mobile phone systems and email platforms (like T-Mobile office plans, desk phones, etc)
• Custom sales challenges: Create competitions for specific KPIs
• Automated performance reports: Turns CRM data into learning activities

If you're looking to gamify sales data without manual tracking, OneUp Sales is a pretty strong gamification tool. Users love the seamless CRM integration and automated reporting, which you can display on Fugo TV screens in real time.

⚡ Connect One Up Sales to your TV with Fugo's OneUp Sales app.

SalesScreen: Best for leaderboards and performance metrics

• Price: ~$15 per user per month
• Free trial: 1 month
• Digital signage integration: ✔️

Next up is SalesScreen, a gamification platform specifically designed to keep sales teams engaged. Its biggest claim to fame is blending gamification with visibility (i.e., performance metrics), which ensures every win gets instant recognition — whether that's on your office TVs or remote viewing dashboards.

Here's a quick look at what you can expect from SalesScreen's features:

• Customizable leaderboards: Track team member rankings in real time
• Automated contests and challenges: Create structured competitions for increased engagement
• TV display integration: Highlight achievements across all your office screens
• CRM integration: Sync your SalesScreen account with Salesforce, HubSpot, and more
• Coin-based rewards system: Add monetary incentives for your top performers

For visibility-driven motivation, SalesScreen delivers. It's also foolproof method of gamifying your sales team without creating negative feedback loops or discouraging active participation (which becomes a downward spiral for any gamification attempt).

⚡ Connect SalesScreen to your TV with Fugo's SalesScreen app.

Spinify: Best for recognition gamification

• Price: ~$15 per user per month
• Free trial: ❌
• Digital signage integration: ✔️

Spinify focuses on employee recognition and motivation through gamified leaderboards, personalized achievements, and public celebrations of success. It creates a fun challenge that motivates employees to give their all — and according to the website, is extremely effective at reinforcing new skills and habits.

Some popular features of Spinify include:

• Personalized achievement badges: Earn badges and other visual rewards for success
• TV and mobile recognition: Highlights top performers in real time
• Goal-based gamification: Turns sales targets into interactive progress bars
• Celebrations and music: Create game elements like victory music that plays when deals close
• KPI-based leaderboards: Track progress toward sales goals

Users love the engaging, high-energy recognition features of Spinify, especially the interactive nature of celebrating successful closes or everyday tasks. This is a great option for fast-growing brands wanting to successfully gamify their team's performance.

⚡ Connect Spinify to your TV with Fugo's Spinify app.

Bring it all together with Fugo

And there you have it! 13 employee gamification examples you can easily put up on your conference room TV.

All that's left is to take it for a spin with the right gamification platform and digital signage software.

At Fugo, we make it easy to set up gamified signage programs with dozens of integrations and real-time dashboard capabilities. You can set up TV dashboards, create social media walls, and customize hundreds of templates to make your life a little easier.

But the proof is in the pudding, as they say.

Sign up for a 14-day free trial of Fugo and see how we can help with digital signage gamification.