WashU recognizes staff recipients with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 & 50 years of service in ways that embrace a spirit of recognition and appreciation.
Congratulations to our
FY26 Milestone Award Recipients!
WashU’s Length of Service criteria: Eligible staff who work 20 or more hours per week without a break in service for more than 30 days are celebrated in five-year increments (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30+ years). Yearly Length of Service awards are celebrated each fiscal year (July 1 to June 30). Employees are able to check their Length of Service date in Workday for their Continuous Service start date. To confirm your Length of Service, submit a request to HROpsServices@email.wustl.edu.
FY26 recipients are honored from July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026.
Celebrating a milestone anniversary at WashU
FY26 Staff Milestone Program Details
Moving into the new fiscal year, staff and their managers will receive Workday notifications to support recognition programming in addition to our in-person spring celebrations. WashU will no longer utilize the online vendor, Awardco, for milestone gifts or retirement programming.
View what milestone recipients can expect below:
- Milestone recipients will receive an email from Workday on their anniversary beginning later this summer. Note: Make sure you customize your Workday notification settings to receive your congratulatory email on your anniversary date.
- Managers will also receive an email for their direct reports’ anniversary.
- Staff celebrating milestone anniversaries, along with their managers, will receive an invitation to a recognition event in the spring. Invitations will be emailed in March 2026.
- Recipients may choose to adopt the Zoom backgrounds with milestone year to help celebrate this accomplishment.
Gift information
Staff celebrating 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 years of service will receive a milestone gift at the spring in-person event. Invitations for this event will be sent annually in March. Please email HRevents@wustl.edu with any questions.
Milestone years
5-year staff members
Each 5-year staff member receives a certificate marking their anniversary, mailed to their home address as listed in Workday. These certificates will be mailed annually each spring.
10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50-year staff members
Staff recipients with 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 years of service are celebrated in person after commencement celebrations at the Danforth Campus and on the WashU Medicine Campus.
All employees are encouraged to use the recognition resources to foster a connected community. Recognition resources include our new WashU Kudos Cards that can be printed or emailed to help celebrate and thank colleagues.