Empuls Vs. Workhuman

Empuls is a leader in holistic employee engagement, helping organizations craft their unique culture and motivate employees.

Learn why companies choose Empuls over Workhuman to implement employee rewards and recognition programs.

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What separates Empuls from Workhuman

1000+ CHROs globally power their employee engagement and rewards strategy with Empuls

EMPULS

Massive rewards catalog with 10M+ options spanning across 50+ categories and 100+ countries, featuring both local and global brands to keep everyone engaged and motivated.

Workhuman

A limited catalog selection with slow processing times, making it difficult to find and redeem rewards efficiently.

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EMPULS

Advanced features to drive recognition with less effort. Our recognition and rewards capabilities span multiple types of awards, that can be automated for different teams, locations and departments.

Workhuman

Capabilities are limited to basic automation flows for recognition and rewards.

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EMPULS

Empuls’ AI capabilities are integrated across recognition programs, communication channels, and surveys, simplifying work for HR, people managers, and employees through an intuitive UI, recommendation engine, intelligent prompts, and insights.

Workhuman

AI capabilities are limited to only rewards and recognition.

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EMPULS

A single platform lets you implement and manage Rewards & Recognition, Perks & Benefits, Surveys & Insights, Employee Communication and Communities, enhancing the overall employee experience with a multi-pronged approach to engagement.

Workhuman

Offers solutions for Rewards, Recognition and Survey capabilities but with limited capabilities compared to the comprehensive feature set of Empuls.

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Hear from customers who chose Empuls

Jared C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“Excellent employee engagement solution, especially for large and/or fully remote companies”

Rewarding users for their hardwork with gift cards and other awards is seamless.

Dileep B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“Elevating employee engagement and recognition for enhance retention and productivity”

User-friendly interface, social recognition and customizable reward options .

Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5 out of 5

“Revolutionizing Employee appreciation: A Game-changing saas Solution”

Streamlined, intuitive, and data-driven, it empowers real-time acknowledgment, diverse rewards and insightful analytics.

More reasons to choose Empuls

Whether you’re taking your employee engagement and rewards program digital for the first time, looking to switch from Workhuman or evaluating both platforms, unlock a measurable increase in engagement and retention with our AI-powered platform.

Features

Empuls

Workhuman

Recognition

Core Value Badges

Tie recognition with your core values by uploading custom value badges or choose from 150+ built-in value badges.

Peer Awards

Set up Peer-to-Peer Recognition that can be tied to rewards and does not require approval.

Spot Awards

Empower people managers to recognize team members in the moment when they deliver outstanding results.

Nomination-based Awards

Choose built-in workflows for seeking award nominations and defining nominators, approvers, and nominees.

Jury Awards

Deliver exclusive awards annually or bi-annually, using a jury panel to review award nominations.

Long Service Awards

Recognize employee loyalty with service awards that celebrate the completion of a significant tenure.

Milestone Awards

Celebrate significant milestones in the employee’s journey, from onboarding to exit and everything in between.

Employee Incentives

Tie company goals and KPIs with incentives, motivating employees to meet and exceed expectations.

Contests & Challenges

Run contests tied to rewards focused on employee well-being, such as step challenges, group hikes, meditation rituals, and more.

Wall Of Fame

Digital wall to showcase employees celebrating milestones, service awards, performance awards, and receiving frequent recognition.

Yearbook

Celebrate service anniversaries with a personalized yearbook that highlights the employee's journey, achievements, and moments of recognition throughout the year.

Public & Private Recognition

Based on employee preference, admins can set the visibility for recognition and awards to be either public, or private.

Recognition & Reward Programs

Rule-based workflows enabling the automation of multiple types of recognition and awards based on various triggers, conditions, and reward criteria, including approvals.

Reward Program

Implement reward program framework spanning multiple types of awards, across locations, departments, and teams on a single dashboard.

Reward Cycles

Automate start and end dates, nudge nominators and approvers, announce winners, and deliver rewards.

Reward Scheduler

Schedule rewards in advance for planned events, milestones, and holidays.

External Recognition

Let your customers, vendors, partners, clients or patients acknowledge your employees for their hard work.

Rewards

Budget Distribution

Set up automated point distribution for peer and manager budgets on a monthly, quarterly, or annual cycles.

Redemption Wallet

Stock your redemption wallet with funds to enable seamless reward redemption by employees.

Point-based rewards

Points are the currency on Empuls. Set your reward budget on Empuls to create reward points that power your rewards, incentives, and gifting program.

QR-code based rewards

Allow companies with deskless teams to offer QR-code based rewards for employees who do not utilize any digital device at work.

Gifting

Celebrate professional and personal milestones, festivals, and holidays with gifts and greetings that can be sent individually or in bulk.

Custom Leaderboards

Define the criteria for ranking participants and set up scoring rules for the leaderboard.

Perks

Discounted Gift Cards

Launch a corporate discounts program with savings across 30 categories and discounts ranging from 5% to 50% on more than 6,000 local and international brands.

Brand Offers

Unlock exclusive corporate offers from major brands.

Exclusive Deals

Access deals on popular categories, from dining to essentials, travel and more.

Cashback

Earn cashback on most brands, enhancing the value of purchases made with credit cards.

Benefits

Tax-free Benefits

Disburse employee benefits with a single multi-wallet card covering tax-free meal, fuel, periodicals, and telephone allowances.

Company-sponsored Benefits

Roll out company-sponsored benefits that reflect your company’s culture and focus on employee well-being.

Fringe Benefits

Offer employees flexible lifestyle benefits linked to Lifestyle Spending Accounts, empowering employees to choose the benefits that align with their life goals.

Early Wages

Offer early access to earned wages to help employees tackle unplanned expenses and emergencies.

Surveys

Engagement Surveys

Gain insights into employee sentiments, identify areas for improvement and measure their engagement.

Lifecycle Surveys

Continuous and regular connect with employees to measure engagement levels.

Custom Surveys

Editable surveys covering multiple use cases and a repository of questions to gather insights and find gaps in engagement.

Personalized Conversations

Gather organic feedback with AI that adapts to individual responses, uncovering deeper insights.

Survey Analytics

Analytics and insights, that help you gauge the organization's pulse.

Action Plans

Close the feedback loop through acknowledgment of employee feedback and data-backed action plans.

Social Intranet

Central News Feed

The town hall page lets you share news, make announcements, and celebrate wins and milestones to drive a culture of open communication.

Limited

Social Recognition Feed

Automatically broadcast all appreciations in a social feed to amplify visibility for information and crowdsource wishes.

Quick Links

Highlight important links or documents to your employees, both external and internal on the Empuls home page.

Posts

Broadcast company news, customer wins and policy updates. Customize the news feed as per your preferences.

Polls & Quizzes

Crowdsource opinions in a quick way. Drive awareness and adoption of new and existing company policies.

Videos

Upload videos that highlight your product, showcase recent activities or spotlight key achievements.

Ask Me Anything

Open the forum for questions from employees to leadership during All-Hands or other important meetings

Reactions

Allow employees to react and engage with content using comments, likes, high-fives, GIFs, emojis, videos, images, and attachments.

Social Sharing

Built-in integration with LinkedIn allows employees to showcase their recognitions on LinkedIn.

Pinned Posts

Pin a post to the top of the newsfeed to feature an important announcement or highlight your best content.

Wishboards

Collate greetings and wishes from peers across the org on a single board to celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries, and more

Employee Directory

Employees can search for colleagues across the organization and access their contact details.

Org Chart

The organizational chart provides employees with the leadership hierarchy and view the structure of any team.

Digital Signage

Broadcast essential updates and achievements across your office, stores, or factory floors via large display screens.

Easily search and connect with people across the organization.

Employee Profile

Profile Page

Allows every employee to showcase their personal and professional details, giving coworkers a peek into their personality.

Account Statement

The account statement gives each employee an overview of reward points received and redeemed.

Order History

The order history provides an employee with information on all orders linked to their reward redemption.

Account Preferences

Every employee has the flexibility to set security, language, and notification preferences.

Community Groups

Types of Groups

Use community groups to bring people from the same department, location, project, or interests together.

Groups Use Cases

Leverage groups for hobbies, onboarding, upskilling, knowledge banks, classifieds, and more.

Content Moderation

Utilize content moderation settings to decide how members interact and converse in a group.

Group Settings

Group settings include membership restrictions, privacy settings for each group, and activity notifications.

User Access Settings

Access Controls

Empuls has four user access levels, namely Super Admins, General Admins, Managers, and Users. Super Admins and General Admins can configure access permissions for all users.

User Management

Super Admins and General Admins can add, edit, or remove user accounts on Empuls, and view the list of active, invited, and disabled users.

Admin Access Delegation

Users with Admin access, such as business leaders or department heads, can delegate their access to other users temporarily to complete critical tasks such as award approvals.

User Authentication

You can choose from standard and custom login methods or set custom SSO login for user authentication on Empuls.

Notification Settings

Manage notification settings for reminders, engagement nudges, and catalog nudges for your organization, across email, app and SMS, and in-product.

AI Capabilities

Weekly Accomplishment Logging

Prompt employees to log weekly achievements, which are collated and shared with managers, nudging them to recognize team members in the moment.

Recognition Insights for Managers

AI shares valuable insights with managers, such as highlighting team members who've been recognized frequently versus those who haven't been recognized in a while.

Automated Award Creation

Simplify award creation by using AI to generate personalized award graphics, subject lines, and details on demand.

Automation of Milestone Celebrations

Schedule milestone celebrations, like birthdays, work anniversaries, service awards, and special days, with automated greetings, nudges to colleagues to join the celebrations, and deliver timely gifts and rewards.

Personalized Conversations

Integrations with communication and social media channel for timely and accurate cPersonalized Conversationsommunications

AI-generated Feedback Insights

By using employee responses to open-ended questions in the engagement survey, AI summarizes the feedback and provides sentiment analysis.

AI-based Content Moderation

AI detects and flags inappropriate content across content published on the social intranet and community groups.

Reward Catalog

Gift Vouchers

eGift vouchers spanning 25+ categories like electronics, fashion, utility, food, grocery, ecommerce, travel & more. 8000+ Brand Gift cards across 100+ countries.

Limited

Experiences

The experiential rewards catalog offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences (1000+), across 40+ categories and 50+ countries.

Limited

Amazon Store

Our API integration with Amazon for Business lets you offer employees specific products or an entire category from the Amazon Store, backed by FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon).

Brand Merchandize

Offer a diverse range of merchandise as rewards, from popular, local, and international brands across 15 categories, and backed by Empuls’ seamless shipping and support.

Limited

Custom Swag

Offer premium products personalized with your company’s branding for reward redemption, and we’ll take care of inventory management, shipping, and support.

Custom Catalog of Rewards

Manage your custom rewards catalog with Empuls, to offer rewards such as lunch with the CEO, paid time off, a free massage, dinner with the family, and more.

Travel & Entertainment

Send people to destinations they love and take care of every comfort from start to finish for their travel expeditions - flights, hotels, taxis, sightseeing.

Limited

Donations to Charity

Give employees the flexibility to donate to charitable causes from your pre-approved list of charities across the world.

Prepaid Cards

Allow employees to make purchases with prepaid cards wherever Visa or Mastercard are accepted, for allowances such as meals, fuel, and gifts

Reports

Individual Reports

Give employees access to their own data on frequency of appreciations given and received, frequency of nominations, core values adoption trends, reward budget utilization, points remaining, and redemption trends.

Limited

Manager-level Reports

Offer People Managers the much-needed visibility into frequency of appreciations given and received by team members, frequency of nominations, core values adoption trends, reward budget utilization, points remaining with each team member, and monthly active users.

Account Status Reports

These reports provide data on pending nominations, available budget points(s), redeemable points(s) with active users, redeemable points(s) with inactive users, redemption wallet balance, budget utilization, sourcing of points(s), application of points(s),sourcing of funds, and application of funds.

Engagement Reports

Measure engagement across the company using data on appreciations with awards and core values, gifts and greetings delivered, reward points utilized for rewards and gifts, surveys created by users, survey responses collected, total number of active groups and discussion threads, and most active groups.

Department-level Reports

Get visibility into frequency of appreciations given and received by departments, frequency of nominations, core values adoption trends, reward budget utilization, points remaining with each department, and monthly active users.

Quid Pro Quo Reports

Empuls has a built-in system abuse detection and prevention feature that identifies quid pro quo provides custom reports

Personalization

Program Settings

Replicate your program framework with options to add your Name, Points Name, Time Zone, Language, Currency, Conversion Factor, etc.

Branding

Showcase your company’s branding to make the platform truly yours.

Feed Card Background

Customize cards for posts on Birthdays, Service Anniversaries, Welcoming New Joinees, and Leaderboard Winners

Banners

Customize banners for the Birthday Wish Board, Service Anniversary, New Employee Welcome Wish Board, Wall of Fame, and Profile Page.

Platform Theme

Customize the platform theme using options such as Light or Dark Interface Options, Platform Color Theme, Choice of UI Widgets, Color of Icons in the LHS Menu, and Feed Header Image.

Security & Compliance

Security

Our advanced system safeguards against misuse and fraud with intelligent checks and balances.

Limited

Data Privacy & Compliance

Empuls adheres to all global standards including WCAG, SOC II, ISO 27001, CCPA, HIPPA and GDPR.

Limited

Tax Compliance

Simplify tax reporting and stay compliant with tax regulations with built-in support.

Limited

Enterprise Capabilities

Multiple Currencies

Facilitate global rewards with multi-currency support

Limited

Multiple Languages

Enhance accessibility with multi-language support across all touchpoints

Limited

Multi-region Deployment

Flexibility to choose how and where you run and store your data.

Cost of Living Index

Ensure parity in rewards for teams spread across the globe.

Integration

HRMS

Integrate with your HRMS to ensure every employee in your system of record is a part of your people initiatives.

Collaboration tools

Collaboration tools to recognise, reward, share
feedback, and engage in the flow of work.

SSO

Integrate with popular identity provider systems to let employees access Empuls using work their credentials

Intranet

Embed capabilities for recognition and rewards
into your existing intranet tools

Learning Management System

Connect rewards to significant milestones in your Learning & Development program.

Applicant Tracking System

Ensure parity in rewards for teams spread across the globe.

Performance Management System

Integrate with your Performance Management System to deliver rewards for meeting and exceeding performance goals.

Health Apps

Motivate your employees to focus on their physical and mental well-being.

** All comparisons are based on open-source data

Enterprise grade platform that is fully secure and designed to scale

Data protection is of utmost importance at Empuls, and we are committed to providing a safe, secure, and compliant loyalty ecosystem for businesses.

Our customers love us

“Truly elevated our employee recognition program”

The success of our first Star of the Quarter cycle on Empuls was made possible by your team's proactive contributions to system readiness. Your support has truly elevated our employee recognition program. Thank you for making Empuls an invaluable asset for us.

Sumana Ananth

People Analytics Manager

“Exceptionally smooth launch process”

Empuls is now live as Angelverse. The launch has been an exceptionally smooth process. We're delighted to have discovered Empuls. Anticipating a continued journey of success, we extend our gratitude for making Angelverse a reality!

Ashveen Kaur

People Analytics Manager

“Game-changer in fostering a positive work culture”

"Empuls has not only provided an excellent platform for employee rewards but has also proven to be a game-changer in fostering a positive work culture. The product's innovative features have significantly contributed to enhancing our employee engagement and recognition initiatives."

Saloni Rakyan

Employee Experience Executive

“Truly a value add to employee reward initiatives”

Reflecting on our journey with Empuls, the support and guidance from the Empuls, starting at ground zero, has been invaluable. Having the Empuls team at every step of this journey made all the difference. Empuls has been truly a value add to Thryve’s employee reward initiatives!

Leena Pujari

Associate Director - People

“Wonderful tool to appreciate and strengthen team bonds”

"The Empuls portal has proven to be a wonderful tool to appreciate and strengthen team bonds across our organization, particularly in the hybrid work model. The ease of peer-to-peer and manager appreciation has made recognition remarkably convenient. Empuls has become an integral part of our R&R program."

Bindhu John

Chief Happiness Officer & Founder's Office