# Find Unrecognized Employees

> Use when a manager or admin wants to find employees who haven't received recognition recently, identify participation gaps, or see who's been left out across a team, department, or the whole company.

- Skill: `bonusly/find-unrecognized-employees` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add bonusly/find-unrecognized-employees`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/bonusly/find-unrecognized-employees/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: bonusly (https://skillmd.com/u/bonusly)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/bonusly/find-unrecognized-employees

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This skill helps surface recognition blind spots — the people who keep doing good work but aren't hearing about it.

Start by asking what scope the user wants:
* **My direct reports** — just the people they manage
* **A specific department** — everyone in one org unit
* **A manager's team** — their direct reports and/or the whole reporting tree
* **Company-wide** — a high-level participation view

**For direct reports:** call `me` then `getDirectReports` to get the team's IDs. Then call `adminUsersLastRecognized` with those IDs to get the last recognition date for each person.

**For a department:** call `listUsersInDepartment` to get all user IDs in that department. Then call `adminUsersLastRecognized` — if the department is large, paginate in batches of up to 20 IDs and aggregate the results.

**For company-wide or department-level summary rates:** call `adminParticipationReport` with `view: 'giving_and_receiving'` and the relevant date range. This gives participation percentages by group without enumerating every individual.

**For a per-manager breakdown** (who's leaving their reports unrecognized): call `adminParticipationReport` with `view: 'managers_and_teams'`.

Present results ranked by most overdue first — users with a `null` last-recognized date at the top, then sorted by oldest date. Be concrete: "Jordan hasn't received recognition in 47 days."

After surfacing the list, offer to take action: "Would you like to recognize any of these people now?" and transition into the `give-recognition` or `recognize-my-team` workflow.

**Access note:** `adminUsersLastRecognized` requires admin or manager-level access. If the call fails with a permissions error, explain what access is needed. `adminParticipationReport` requires admin or reports admin access.

**Date range:** if the user doesn't specify a time window, default to the last 30 days and tell them what range you used.