We are delighted to be joined on our journey by Calculus Capital who have led a £3.0m new investment round along with the continued support of Mercia Fund Management, which first invested in Mo in 2018.

We are delighted to complete a further funding round with investors who share our vision. It provides a really meaningful opportunity to capitalise on the growth opportunities emerging as the world of work continues to see accelerated change.

"We are delighted to complete a further funding round with investors who share our vision. It provides a really meaningful opportunity to capitalise on the growth opportunities emerging as the world of work continues to see accelerated change."

Startups are the visionaries, the believers in a better way, hell bent on changing the world. But, it's tough out there for startups right now. It's certainly been a challenging year for us all, but remaining positive, keeping the energy high and making sure you celebrate the moments that will define our experience through the pandemic is critical.

So, I'm pleased to share and celebrate with you a huge moment for us - we are extremely humbled to have been given the opportunity to double down on our mission to help people have a more meaningful relationship with work. We are delighted to be joined on our journey by Calculus Capital who have led a £3.0m new investment round along with the continued support of Mercia Fund Management, which first invested in Mo in 2018. More about that here.

The world of work is changing before our very eyes and we believe that we have never been better positioned to support businesses that care about their people. To make a big difference to both people in their day to day at work and a big difference to the organisations that put people at the heart of their business strategy at times of crisis (and through every new normal that we pass through in these crazy times).

Every day, people are facing their own challenges and we think that the key to supporting us all, both now and into the future, is by coming together. We unite people. We bring them closer together. We make them stronger, together. And we do this by capturing, celebrating and elevating every single moment. 

These moments define the cultures that we create. We need to build them and nurture them. Because they are so important. These moments help us to stay connected and belong. 

We will get through this, and we will be more, together.

Want to learn how Mo can help your team be more, together?

On Thursday 4th June Mo will be partnering with Michael Page for a webinar discussion on managing change in these uncertain times. 

Motivating teams as they transition to the new normal
Thursday 4 June, 11:00am BST 

Mo is joining Michael Page for their upcoming webinar on motivating teams as they transition to the new normal. 

We have invited two wonderful customers to join us and to share their experiences of COVID-19 so far, how they are planning for the next phase and what challenges they are expecting to face during the transition period.

As we all look ahead to the transition back to "normal" after the lockdown, we wanted to focus on how People people are managing change in these uncertain times. We'll be discussing practical considerations for how to bring people back together both physically and culturally. We also welcome your questions throughout.  

We have some excellent speakers lined up and this is set to be a must not miss webinar for those who want to hear first hand how senior people professionals from very different businesses have been dealing with the challenges of the last few months. They'll be discussing some of the key ways in which their companies have been impacted and some of the ways in which they've supported the business through such difficult times. 

After sharing some of the recent challenges, we'll then look forward to get an understand of what's to come, how leaders and businesses should be approaching the next wave of challenges that we all face, and how we can come best deliver on what's important to both employers and employees over the next few months ahead.

We'll be exploring practical advice, covering a broad variety of topics and having a good lively debate about what the next phase looks like for us all. It's set to be a great conversation and we really hope you join us for it. 

Teri is an experienced commercial HR leader, working with clients to deliver experienced Human Resourcing Services, coaching and mediation, mentoring, training and facilitation, she works with businesses that are looking to drive and focus their leadership teams on transformational change, ensuring they are working effectively together in one direction, enabling growth of the business.

Teri has 20 years of experience in the IT sector, is an experienced coach and NLP practitioner.

Hazel Hogben, SVP of HR, Interstate Hotels

Hazel is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Interstate Hotels. With a HR career spanning over 20 years, Hazel is a highly experienced HR professional who began her career in retail operations. She then spent 12 years with IHG as Head of HR for Global Functions before moving to Head of HR Operations for the UK & Ireland Her last position with IHG was as Head of HR Operations across Europe, Russia and CIS as well as the Middle East.

Luke is the CEO of Mo. Building the business to deliver on our mission to create meaningful moments that strengthen every working relationship, to enable both people and businesses to get more from work.

After a successful career at RBS and Worldpay, Luke quit his job in 2016 and started a full-time journey with Mo.  Mo now serves customers such as William Hill, Interstate Hotels, SHL, Sage and the O2 arena, and has now created over two million moments in more than 45 countries.

To kick off the new year we will welcome Euan Blair, Co-Founder and CEO of Whitehat, a tech startup building an alternative to university by matching school leavers to career-focused apprenticeships.

I am really excited to share the details for our first event of 2020! We will be celebrating the end of a long January in the cinema room at the fabulous Soho Hotel to hear more moments from work.


This event series is all about hearing from a diverse range of speakers share their experiences of work. To kick off the new year we will welcome Euan Blair, Co-Founder and CEO of Whitehat, a tech startup building an alternative to university by matching school leavers to career-focused apprenticeships.


Recently featured as ‘one to watch’ in The Sunday Times Fast Track publication Whitehat’s mission is to develop a diverse group of future leaders through their innovative programmes. Euan will be sharing his career journey, the inspiration behind Whitehat and the importance of diversity within the workplace.


Register now to secure your place  - we will be sorting out drinks, canapés, a great talk and you will also have the chance to chat with other HR professionals and people motivated to making work better.

On Wednesday 20 November we are hosting our second of a series of three speaker events - moments at work.

On Thursday 19 November we are hosting our second of a series of three speaker events - Moments at work.


Wednesday 20 November, 08:00 – 10:30, The Gherkin 


The next instalment of the Moments at Work Series is here and we are ridiculously excited to be heading over to the Gherkin to hear more moments at work! (and enjoy the stunning views across London). This time round we are joined by Maggie Alphonsi, former English rugby union player, commentator and media professional – arguably the one of the most famous names in women’s team sports.

Her career path has been an interesting journey with challenges and successes along the way. This isn’t a story focused on rugby but about the importance of building and maintaining a strong, supportive and collaborative team to deliver results.


She will also share how she worked under pressure in a male dominated industry and pushed the boundaries to deliver great results! 
Register your details to come along to The Gherkin (and feel free to bring along colleagues) to start your day with inspiration alongside others that are motivated to positively change the world of work.

I come from a saas consultancy background and have worked in the recognition, benefits and wellbeing space for the last few years. I have a real passion for people, I believe that creating a culture of recognition in which people feel that their contribution at work is valued is the key to employee engagement.

I’ve just joined Mo as part of our brand new growth team. It is my job to go out and meet with HR teams and chat to them about their recognition strategies. I am originally from Ireland but landed in the UK after a quick 6 year detour in Dallas, Texas.

I come from a saas consultancy background and have worked in the recognition, benefits and wellbeing space for the last few years. I have a real passion for people, I believe that creating a culture of recognition in which people feel that their contribution at work is valued is the key to employee engagement. So, it’s exciting that I get to work with the HR community to design tailored recognition solutions to simplify their complex challenges. I am really looking forward to meeting some of you at our upcoming community events and chatting about what’s going on in your world.

Outside of helping HR I am a lover of food, travel and art. I can usually be found at a 1Rebel boxing class most mornings. I absolutely love cheesy rom coms and trash TV so if Love Island is your thing, I am your girl! 

The Mo Community launch is here! On Thursday 26 September we are hosting our first of a series of three speaker events - Moments at work.

Thursday 26 September, 18.30 - 21.30, Ace Hotel, Shoreditch 

100 Shoreditch High St, Hackney, London E1 6JQ, UK


The series will feature diverse guest speakers sharing their stories of work - both good and bad - and how they have learnt from their experiences. We will have a first hand insight into the employee experience in different industries and roles.

Our first speaker is Adam Kay, the best selling author of the hilarious book 'This is going to hurt', comedian, TV writer and former doctor. Hear Adam's personal account of significant moments from his working life and how he made a big life changing decision in order to have a positive change. 

He will also treat us to some live extracts from his award winning book, giving a funny but honest (and sometimes a little gruesome), first hand look at life as a junior doctor in the UK.

The Mo Community is a collective with a common passion - we believe in moving forward to create a motivated and happy workforce. This event is just the start to bring us together to be inspired, share knowledge and experiences. 

Adam is a top selling author with This is Going to Hurt, his “hilarious and heartbreaking” (Charlie Brooker), “blisteringly funny” (Jo Brand) memoirs from his former career as a junior doctor which was published by Picador in September 2017.

The book was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and the bestselling non-fiction title of 2018. It has spent a record-breaking eleven months at number one in the charts, is the best-selling e-book of all time, and has sold a total of 1.5 million copies. This is Going to Hurt has been translated into 36 languages and achieved number one bestseller status internationally.

If you haven’t yet read it, we highly recommend that you do! His follow-up book, 'Twas the nightshift before Christmas', is due out in October.

He also writes extensively for TV and film, with credits including Mitchell & Webb, Very British Problems, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Crims and Mongrels.

We are delighted to have Adam join us for this first community event to give an inspiring and funny account of his time as a junior doctor, the pressures and levels of burnout he suffered and how he chose to make a dramatic change in career in order to be happier at work.

Make sure you register your details to confirm your place and we look forward to meeting you!.

To give a quick intro to me - I have a background in marketing and event management, with around 12 years experience (eek!) of designing, marketing and delivering a real mix of different events - from award ceremonies to business pitch days, round table 

My name is Claire and I am really excited to be joining the team at Mo in a brand new role as the Community Lead!

To give a quick intro to me - I have a background in marketing and event management, with around 12 years experience (eek!) of designing, marketing and delivering a real mix of different events - from award ceremonies to business pitch days, round table discussions/focus groups to large, full day conferences. 

I have worked for companies such as London Business School and IPSE, The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed. 

I really love thinking of creative ways to bring people together and as well as providing memorable experiences, helping people to connect and build genuine relationships. Face to face interaction is so important in this modern world!
I attend loads of events myself to keep my mind fresh and build my own network - meeting new people is inspiring! 

I am passionate about the power of relationships and the growing importance of a community. The Mo Community will give us a platform to join together and work collaboratively - a support network with events, both online and face-to-face, and new, regular content. 

I am looking forward to connecting with you all to find out what it means to you, what you want to hear about and how we can support you and your employees in the future of work.

I have a lot of exciting ideas/plans to unite us (and have some fun along the way) to support our quest to change the way we look at work. I do also really want to hear from you to help me understand your challenges, successes and everything in between.  

Us, as a collective, have a common passion - we believe in moving forward to create a motivated and happy workforce. By joining together via the Mo Community we can make a positive impact on the world of work.

I will be in touch again soon with updates but in the meantime please do sign up to hear more from The Mo Community and feel free to contact me directly - I would love to hear from you.

Mo we are really excited to be speaking at the upcoming Investors in People breakfast event next month.

Investors in People,have a similar vision to Mo - calling for a movement that puts people first – for the benefit of every person in every workplace, for increased productivity and for a stronger, healthier and happier society.

AI and the changing world of HR technology

Wednesday 4 September 2019, 09.00 - 13.00, One American Square, 

17 America Square, Crosswall, London EC3N 2LB, UK

Investors in People have a similar vision to Mo - calling for a movement that puts people first – for the benefit of every person in every workplace, for increased productivity and for a stronger, healthier and happier society. This is why it seemed a perfect fit for us to come along and speak at their breakfast event back in September that focused on technology and the future of work. 

Our CEO, Luke, led an energetic session on our evolving relationship with work. He gave insight into how the expectations of the workforce are changing as the experience they get in the rest of their lives raises the bar for what they expect at work. He questioned how is life, the experience economy, and technology changing our demands at work? And what does this all mean for employee engagement?

The morning was free to attend and was a great chance for us to connect with HR professionals as well as enjoy some ace content from the other speakers from Veran Performance and Qlearsite

Investors in People host many events across the year, up and down the country. Check out the latest here and keep an eye out for future speaker collaborations with Mo! 

AI and the changing world of HR technology 

Today is a special day for us. Today we say goodbye to ThanksBox and hello, Mo.  Before I share more, you’re likely to be here, reading this, because you’re interested in our future, so I’d like to start by saying a huge thank you for being a part of our journey so far....

Today is a special day for us. We go from being called ThanksBox, to being called Mo.

Today we say goodbye to ThanksBox and hello, Mo.  

Before I share more, you’re likely to be here, reading this, because you’re interested in our future, so I’d like to start by saying a huge thank you for being a part of our journey so far. To the people that have taken the time to tell someone they made a difference via the platform, to our customers for having belief in us to help create a better working environment for your people, to the investors that have backed us, to the people that have visited our site or replied to one of my emails, and finally, to our people, for fighting every day to make work better - you’re helping make a difference to the world of work and I thank you for all of your support, please keep it coming!

In 2014, a major problem with work wouldn’t stop whirling around in my head - I kept obsessing over why we spent so much more time, money and effort trying to create meaningful experiences for our customers, but put in just a fraction of the effort for our people. 

Yet, one of the most used phrases I heard from CEOs was (and still is): 

“Our people are our most important asset.”

I’m a big believer in having a positive mindset and the positive affect this can have on others, so we started by enabling organisations to better celebrate success, recognise performance and appreciate others - but, above everything else, helping those ‘assets’ feel valued for the blood, sweat and tears they put in to their work. We’ve since helped organisations reach record levels of recognition, created tonnes of happy tears, won awards and had a significant impact on their levels of employee engagement.

2018 was a year of exceptional growth for us. Our organisation is unrecognisable from a year ago. Our revenue is up 100’s of percent, we’re now working with even more amazing brands, and we’ve added more people to our team than you can count on your fingers and toes!

We start 2019 in a great place, having just raised a multi-million pound investment round in December and lead with a new proposition, lots of product enhancements and a great new visual identity with Mo. 

We’ve learnt a lot in the last couple of years since the launch of ThanksBox. Most consultants and presentation experts provide just 3 points to take away, but I’ve given you an extra one for free:

1. Our relationship with work is broken. 

Does work have to be a mere means to an end for us? Enough to get by. To fund our various holidays or just to put food on the table? Work should be a mutually beneficial relationship, where both employer and employee get more. In the main, the relationship the world’s working population has with work is broken: 85% of the worlds global population is not engaged in their work - yet, we typically spend over 100,000 hours of our lives at work. How will we look back at that time when we're grey and old? Did we waste it, or did we seek more from work? 

We believe work should be more meaningful, to create a more fulfilling life.

Above I mentioned work as a relationship between an employee and an employer. Any great relationship seeks to inspire the best from the other party, think of your best friendships, partner or work colleagues. A good relationship is two-sided, no winner, no loser, but both equally vested in the success of each other, enabling you to be more, together. Achieving more is at the very foundation of our proposition for both our customers and our users. 

We believe more for an employee, is about the opportunity to do or be involved in more meaningful work. If you are to get more from work, you are making a better career for yourself. You will progress more. You will get all of the other benefits that come at work: promotion, pay rise, great customer conversations and pride in your work.

As an employer, most investments in being a better workplace, employee engagement initiatives or building a great culture are motivated by either a moral investment, or (more likely) an attempt to improve profitability. Much of the industry has positioned the investment in purchase of technology like ours, to help boost employee retention - we understand this, but we also know that people are going to leave your company eventually and the time until they leave is reducing drastically. So we believe this is about achieving more from your 'most important assets’, more in terms of a greater level of motivation, leading to a higher level of output from your existing people - not keeping them against their will with an offer just above the interview they went for, but actively engaging them.

There are very few jobs left that enable you to do everything required to achieve, on your own (if you can name one, I’ll buy you a Mojito!). People around you, help you do your job better (and sometimes worse) than you could otherwise do on your own. We’ve realised from the thousands of messages sent on the ThanksBox platform, that when people are celebrating success - it’s never alone, when someone is recognising performance - someone else has done more than you expected of them or when someone is appreciating their colleague, it’s normally because someone else sacrificed for your gain.

Relationships are key to getting more done at work. In today's world of work, you have to work with people to get more done, achieve better results, and get ahead. 

Relationships are the result of a series of meaningful moments. Moments of shared social experience, the highs and lows, the ups and the downs, these define the relationships you have both at home and at work. These moments are those that you will remember at the end of a fruitful career, the things and the people that stand out. We believe there are a lack of positive moments in today's working world and we believe you can help create more meaningful moments with Mo.

At Mo, we’re really busy building a technology platform to solve a very human problem, we’re creating features that create and enhance meaningful moments between colleagues, to help strengthen their relationship. 

We're on a mission to create meaningful moments that strengthen every working relationship, to enable both people and businesses to get more from work.

Today marks a big moment for us, I'm excited to introduce you to Mo. Thank you for taking the time to read my words, I’d love to hear your thoughts on our insights, the new brand or any other aspect of the future of work - please do email me at luke@mo.work or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Welcome to the Mo blog. A place to learn more about the world of work. We will share our stories from the trenches, insight from the wider world and feature some exciting people challenging the way we all look at what motivates people in work. 

In our second breakfast session with Unleashed our panel discussed compassionate leadership.

Personalisation and the Individual Experience of Work

Our CEO Luke teamed up with Ginni and Michaela from Unleashed to talk about personalisation and the individual experience of work. hey discussed why the traditional HR approach doesn’t always work and compared employee experience to design and experience thinking.

In this guest post, she shares how leaders can build kinder cultures that are built around compassionate leadership and genuine care, and the steps leaders need to consider to rebuild their culture in a way that works for everyone.

There’s never been a more important time to accelerate inclusion and diversity action - but when COVID-19 kills the inclusion and diversity budget - how can companies move forward with meaningful progress?  Insightful Q&A with Rudi Symons, culture + inclusion specialist #inclusion #diversity #leadership

We took a step back to consider the best ways to keep our employees informed in the right way as well as have some fun!


We invited George from Sanctus, to share his advice on how you can manage stress through this time & make mental health & wellbeing a shared company goal.

We take a look at some remote social club ideas for you and your employees during lockdown.

What coronavirus means for the people profession

The coronavirus has turned our world upside down and the impact on the people profession has been particularly pronounced given the changes..

What rewards are working for remote workforces?

Most of our customers have access to our Rewards feature, a core part of the Mo product that enables businesses to reward individuals and teams in a considered and structured way.

Mo's been working with SHL for a year, following a period of significant change and uncertainty.

Here is our very first guest blog post with Tara, Head of People at Monzo looking at how organisations can support their People people. 

We share a moment with Futurist Tom to explore what COVID-19 all means for where we are going in terms of work.

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