Best Employee Recognition Software 2024

Motivate with recognition and rewards

Go beyond traditional recognition with Empuls. Celebrate every win with diverse recognition options and see a measurable boost in employee engagement and retention.

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Impact of Empuls

Run a results-driven* employee recognition program with Empuls

67%

Improvement in overall eNPS score

90%

Employees feel more valued & recognised

1.5x

Growth in company revenue

30%

Higher customer satisfaction scores

*These results are based on Empuls customer reports.

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A recognition & rewards platform to support your unique program goals

Multiple Award Types

Multiple Award Types

Value badges, spot awards, and peer awards for in-the-moment recognition

Approval-based awards to seek nominations and include jury panels

Performance and incentive-based awards for various types of goals

Custom Workflows

Custom Workflows

Use workflows to automate awards in your employee recognition programs

Include nominators, moderators, jury panels, or multiple approvers

Set up recognition triggers for various special events and milestones

Branding & Customization

Branding & Customization

Customize the platform with your company’s branding

Choose from our award templates or upload your own

Upload customized certificates to go with your awards

Rewards & Budgets

Rewards & Budgets

Use workflows to automate the distribution of reward budgets

Allow instant redemption and delivery with a built-in rewards store

Get complete visibility into reward point and budget utilization

Award Types

Multiple Award Types

Value badges, spot awards, and peer awards for in-the-moment recognition

Approval-based awards to seek nominations and include jury panels

Performance and incentive-based awards for various types of goals

Automation

Custom Workflows

Use workflows to automate awards in your employee recognition programs

Include nominators, moderators, jury panels, or multiple approvers

Set up recognition triggers for various special events and milestones

Customization

Branding & Customization

Customize the platform with your company’s branding

Choose from our award templates or upload your own

Upload customized certificates to go with your awards

Rewards

Rewards & Budgets

Use workflows to automate the distribution of reward budgets

Allow instant redemption and delivery with a built-in rewards store

Get complete visibility into reward point and budget utilization

Milestone Celebrations

Turn every milestone into a company-wide celebration

Every milestone, personal and professional, deserves a celebration. Empuls makes sure you never miss out on celebrating every one of these milestones. Leverage automation to deliver personalized greetings, rewards, and gifts at every milestone in the employee lifecycle, from onboarding to retirement.

Onboarding
Exit/Retirement
Onboarding
Induction and Joining Delights
Rewards for Personal Occasions
Festive Rewards
Milestone Rewards
Performance Based Rewards
Peer to Peer Rewards
Perks and Promotions
Referral Rewards
Long Service Rewards
Sales Incentives
Retirements/Exit Rewards
Exit/Retirement

Celebrations that resonate with your teams

Onboarding to Exit

Elevate every step of the employee journey, from onboarding to retirement or exit, with meaningful rewards.

Personal Achievements

Extend applause beyond the office, recognizing achievements like TED talks, social impact work, or 10K runs.

Professional Milestones

Reward employee milestones like promotions and show your thanks for employee and client referrals.

Personal Milestones

Involve the work family in celebrating employee birthdays and anniversaries with rewards that bring the party.

Life Events

Mark life's chapters, like weddings, parenthood, and new beginnings, with memorable and thoughtful gifts.

Festivals & Holidays

Celebrate special days, like Mother's Day, Father’s Day, Appreciation Day, with meaningful gifts.

All the tools you need to drive impactful employee recognition

Give visibility to every achievement and milestone
Shine the Spotlight

Amplify visibility by shining the spotlight on every recognition with a social intranet to make employees feel valued.

Celebrations

Involve the entire work family in celebrating life events and milestones across the employee lifecycle.

Reactions

Allow employees to cheer for their peers using comments, likes, high-fives, GIFs, emojis, and attachments.

Social Sharing

Let employees brag about work achievements and milestones with their network on social channels like LinkedIn.

Replace physical bulletin boards with digital ones
Birthday Wishboard

Double the joy of celebrating a birthday with personalized greetings from coworkers.

Life Event Wishboard

Celebrate life events with the extended work family and create lasting memories with their best wishes.

Holiday Wishboard

Spread the festive spirit by sending season’s greetings to your workforce and their families.

Service Award Wishboard

Come together to applaud service award recipients and honor their achievements on the wall of fame.

Drive Company-wide Employee Recognition with AI
AI-enhanced Messages

Generative AI helps you craft meaningful messages when nominating colleagues and teams for awards.

Nudges & Notifications

Em, our AI-powered bot, uses nudges, notifications, and past data to elicit employee action and participation.

Engagement Scores

With activity scores for every action, employees can be nudged to participate and accrue engagement credits.

Leaderboards

Custom engagement leaderboards drive healthy competition and show how each employee ranks against colleagues.

Track the ROI of your reward and recognition program
Real-time Budget

Get a real-time view of the wallet balance, available budget points, redeemable points, and pending nominations.

Reports

Utilize multiple reports to get a clear picture of program adoption across teams, departments, business units, and locations.

Utilization Analysis

Check utilization data for reward points, budget, and funds, with the option to filter for various parameters.

ROI Visibility

Share reports with stakeholders in your company so they get complete visibility into your program ROI.

Give visibility to every achievement and milestone
Shine the Spotlight

Amplify visibility by shining the spotlight on every recognition with a social intranet to make employees feel valued.

Celebrations

Involve the entire work family in celebrating life events and milestones across the employee lifecycle.

Reactions

Allow employees to cheer for their peers using comments, likes, high-fives, GIFs, emojis, and attachments.

Social Sharing

Let employees brag about work achievements and milestones with their network on social channels like LinkedIn.

Replace physical bulletin boards with digital ones
Birthday Wishboard

Double the joy of celebrating a birthday with personalized greetings from coworkers.

Life Event Wishboard

Celebrate life events with the extended work family and create lasting memories with their best wishes.

Holiday Wishboard

Spread the festive spirit by sending season’s greetings to your workforce and their families.

Service Award Wishboard

Come together to applaud service award recipients and honor their achievements on the wall of fame.

Drive Company-wide Employee Recognition with AI
Automated messages

Generative AI helps you craft meaningful messages when nominating colleagues and teams for awards.

Nudges & Notifications

Em, our AI-powered bot, uses nudges, notifications, and past data to elicit employee action and participation.

Engagement Scores

With activity scores for every action, employees can be nudged to participate and accrue engagement credits.

Leaderboards

Custom engagement leaderboards drive healthy competition and show how each employee ranks against colleagues.

Track the ROI of your reward and recognition program
Real-time Budget

Get a real-time view of the wallet balance, available budget points, redeemable points, and pending nominations.

Reports

Utilize multiple reports to get a clear picture of program adoption across teams, departments, business units, and locations.

Utilization Analysis

Check utilization data for reward points, budget, and funds, with the option to filter for various parameters.

ROI Visibility

Share reports with stakeholders in your company so they get complete visibility into your program ROI.

Power an enterprise-wide employee engagement strategy

Tailored solution curated for mid-size and enterprise organizations: fostering productivity, collaboration and motivation.

Customization

Configure the platform in the language and currency of your choice for your global teams.

Compliance

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

Security & Privacy

VAPT, Code reviews, BCP. Firewalls, IDS, logging, monitoring, MFA, data encryption and code audits.

Worldwide Deployment

Global cloud infrastructure gives the flexibility to choose how and where to run and store data.

Global Rewards

A global reward store that offers limitless choices for your global teams, across international and local brands

White-labeled

The platform can be white-labeled with branding, logos, colors, time zones, and languages.

Give your employees the gift of choice

Explore Empuls' dynamic reward marketplace, featuring tangible gifts from Amazon, personalized in-house swag, a global catalog of gift cards, brand merchandise, experiential rewards, and custom options.

Integrations

Empuls works with your everyday work tools

Your employees are already navigating multiple tools at work. We made it easy for them by integrating Empuls with your HRMS and single sign-on tools.

Microsoft Teams
Allow employees to recognize, reward, share feedback, and engage within Teams.
Slack
Integrate with Empuls to deliver recognition, rewards, and surveys in the flow of work from within Slack.
UKG
Keep employee data fresh and automate milestone celebrations with this integration. 
SAP SuccessFactors
Automate employee inclusion in engagement initiatives and never miss any milestone celebrations.
Google Workspace SSO
Involve every employee in your engagement initiatives with secure, single sign-on access to Empuls. 
Azure AD
Provide employees secure access to Empuls with single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
BambooHR
Seamlessly sync employee data from BambooHR to engage every employee every day on Empuls.
Freshteam
Keep employee data up-to-date in Empuls to involve your entire workforce in engagement programs.
Keka
This integration ensures that employee data in Empuls is up-to-date for continuous engagement.