Better Annual Bonuses

Shouldn't you get more performance from annual bonuses?

Annual bonuses are typically paid months after the fiscal year. While they’re often associated with company performance and a limited set of employee metrics, this “significantly after the fact” approach to a performance bonus makes it hard to motivate employees in the moment and build towards an annual goal. 

Make your annual bonuses count all year long and give employees early access to portions of their annual bonus during the fiscal year - while still ensuring they stick around at least until the normal bonus payment date.


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You may be experiencing:

  • Failure of bonuses to continuously motivate employees during the fiscal year
  • False expectations and performance signals from bonuses
  • Ubiquitously offered and undifferentiated vs the talent competition
  • Immediate and significant attrition following bonus payments
  • Traditional bonuses not retaining top talent
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The opportunity

With Keep, you can finally connect annual bonuses with real-time performance and commitment.

The first real-time replacement of an annual bonus with ongoing performance rewards:

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How It Works

  • “Release” portions of annual bonus payments during the fiscal year based on actual performance
  • Set performance objectives for successive annual bonus payment releases
  • Tie each bonus payment release to an obligation, required by the employee, to remain employed until the ordinary bonus payment date (e.g. March 1st of the following calendar year)
  • The retention period may be extended further to recognize the benefit of early access to annual bonus payments
  • Early access to annual bonus payments enable employees to save, invest, and accomplish personal goals earlier
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Our System

  • Structures all performance milestones, bonus payment releases & related obligations
  • Allows you to send, track, and automate clawback (as needed) of all bonuses from one dashboard
  • Schedules vesting milestone notifications to employees for increased engagement
  • Optimizes cash flow and AR management, while deferring taxes until vesting milestones

We make annual bonuses impact real-time performance and commitment within your performance time period instead of after it.

Delayed gratification postpones (and can actually destroy) actual performance within that time period.

Keep Platform Benefits
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Turn-key Onboarding
Turn-key onboarding that allows HR teams to instantly leverage the platform with no dependence on IT integrations.
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Bonus Management Dashboard
Bonus dashboard for HR teams to have an integrated view of their bonus portfolio with notifications and updates (for both employers and employees) about key milestones for bonuses.
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Employee Portal
Employee self-service portal that lets employees manage their KEEP account and view their bonus vesting schedules.
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Governance & Compliance
Governance and compliance features including robust auditing and reconciliation for the finance and FinOps teams to track every bonus and tax payments.
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Performance Challenges
Attach performance challenges to bonuses. Set goals, if an employee achieves the goals you define, then the employee is rewarded with a reduction in vesting schedule or balance.
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Embedded Fintech
Enable seamless bonus delivery and funding execution for increased efficiency. Intuitive user interface (UI) for any sized organization and employees at all salary levels.
Turn-key onboarding that allows HR teams to instantly leverage the platform with no dependence on IT integrations.
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Bonus dashboard for HR teams to have an integrated view of their bonus portfolio with notifications and updates (for both employers and employees) about key milestones for bonuses.
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Employee self-service portal that lets employees manage their KEEP account and view their bonus vesting schedules.
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Governance and compliance features including robust auditing and reconciliation for the finance and FinOps teams to track every bonus and tax payments.
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Attach performance challenges to bonuses. Set goals, if an employee achieves the goals you define, then the employee is rewarded with a reduction in vesting schedule or balance.
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Enable seamless bonus delivery and funding execution for increased efficiency. Intuitive user interface (UI) for any sized organization and employees at all salary levels.
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Better Annual Bonuses

Bring performance and value to your annual bonuses with Keep.

Did you know?

 

Losing, attracting, hiring, and training employees can be expensive and time consuming.This is a very real, yet fixable problem with Keep Financial’s vesting bonuses.

94%

Percentage of employees who responded yes to if a company invested in them, they would stay longer.

16% - 213%

Employee turnover costs between 15% and 213% of the workers salary.

23%

Only 23% of businesses say they are not having trouble with hiring.

51%

Workers actively looking 
for new job opportunities.

8 Months

Average number of month for an employee to reach full productivity.

42 Days

Average number of days 
it takes to fill an open position.

24%

Turnover rates of 20% before the pandemic could face a turnover rate as high as 24% in 2022 and years to come.

46.7 Hours

Companies spend an average 
of 46.7 hours to train an employee.
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The Keep Advantage.

Keep Financial is revolutionizing how companies attract and retain top talent with vesting cash bonuses – providing an easy-to-use platform to create and deploy usable cash to employees that are earned over their tenure.

  • Easy to implement and scale

    Delivers long-term engagement as these are not transactional but purpose-built to drive employee engagement.

  • Retain top talent

    Set bonus vesting schedules that drive retention. Enable employees to access the funds early to achieve their financial goals.

  • Build a performance culture

    Reward employees for tenure and performance. Performance challenges enable businesses to achieve goals and build morale.




More Keep use cases

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Signing Bonuses
Protect your investment in top talent with bonuses that drive retention and motivation.
Spot Bonus
Easily reward key employees for extra effort and show they’re valued, all while driving retention.
M&A
Ensure your merger, acquisition, or other business transformation aligns with top talent retention.
Beyond Equity
Give employees the flexibility to balance equity with usable cash tied to retention.
Performance Bonuses
Motivating employees to achieve specific goals can be challenging. KEEP Performing allows companies to create vesting cash bonuses with performance challenges attached.
Poaching Defense
Show your top talent they’re valued and desired at your company before a competitor does.
Tuition Reimbursement
Get smarter, more productive employees and retain them longer with Tuition Reimbursement from Keep Financial.

Increase the value and ROI of your annual bonuses with Keep.

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