Best Employee Recognition Software 2024

Motivate peers with recognition and rewards

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

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Impact of Empuls

Run a results-driven* peer 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.

Explore Empuls

A peer 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

Peer Rewards & Budgets

Use workflows to automate the distribution of peer reward budgets

Allow instant redemption and delivery with a built-in peer 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

Award 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

Reward Catalog

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

What makes Empuls stand out as a platform for peer recognition?

Global Accessibility

Empuls supports multiple languages and currencies, ensuring inclusivity for global teams.

AI-driven recognition

Generate meaningful recognition messages, enable engagement nudges, and promote participation using AI-powered tools.

Customizable workflows

Automate recognition programs with approval flows, branding, and award triggers tailored to your needs.

Extensive reward catalog

Offer diverse rewards, including Amazon's entire store, global gift cards, experiential rewards, and custom in-house options.

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 and Recognition
Peer to Peer Rewards and Recognition
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 journey, from onboarding to retirement or exit, with meaningful employee recognition and rewards program

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 birthdays and anniversaries with peer recognition and rewards program that bring the party.

Life Events

Mark life's chapters, like weddings, parenthood, and new beginnings, with memorable and thoughtful peer rewards and recognition

Festivals & Holidays

Celebrate special days, like Mother's Day, Father’s Day, Appreciation Day, with meaningful peer rewards and recognition

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 peer 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 peer recognition program adoption across teams, departments, business units, and locations.

Utilization Analysis

Check utilization data for employee 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 peer recognition solution curated for mid-size and enterprise organizations: fostering productivity, collaboration and motivation.

Customization

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

Compliance

The peer recognition 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 Peer Rewards & Recognition

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

White-labeled

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

Give your employees the gift of choice

Explore Empuls' dynamic peer reward marketplace, featuring tangible gifts from Amazon, personalised 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 peer recognition with this integration.
SAP SuccessFactors
Automate inclusion in peer recognition initiatives and never miss any milestone celebrations.
Google Workspace SSO
Involve every employee in your peer recognition 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 peer recognition programs.
Keka
This integration ensures that employee data in Empuls is up-to-date for peer recognition programs

Our customers love us

Illumifin
Illumifin
“Seamless, easy to navigate, and very user-friendly”
"We have been using Empuls for our employee engagement initiatives and have successfully encouraged our U.S. team to adopt it for recognition and rewards (R&R). With over 3,000 employees, we all actively engage with the platform. The product is seamless, easy to navigate, and very user-friendly."
- Senior Director and Head - HR, Illumifin
Locus
Locus
“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.
- Chief Happiness Officer & Founder's Office
Techwave
Techwave
“An engaging experience”
At Techwave, Empuls proved to be more than just a platform; it’s an engaging experience. The transition from a manual process to an automated program with Empuls was a lot smoother than most well-known service companies. Overall, it’s a 5-star rating from Techwave!
Angela Paulmony
- Human Resources
Infinit-O
Infinit-O
“Empuls has a solid foundation with all the features”
I appreciated the availability of helpful contacts, guides, and real-time support from the Empuls team. Overall, Empuls has a solid foundation with all the features and resources you’ll need to kick-start employee engagement at your company.
Danamaisie Carmona
- Operations Manager

Industry-leading Engagement & Recognition Platform

  • Hype Cycle for HR Technology, 2023

  • Hype Cycle for Hybrid Work, 2023

  • Market Guide for Voice of the Employee Solutions™ 2023

  • Innovation Insight: Digital Technologies Driving DEI Outcomes 2023

Forrester Employee Recognition Landscape, Q1 2023

Everest Group R&R Solutions PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

G2 Award
Shortlister Top employee recognition software award
Software reviews - Top employee engagement software award
Capterra award
G2 easiest admin award
GetApp leaders award

FAQs

What makes Empuls an all-in-one employee engagement platform?

Empuls is built on four pillars of employee engagement, namely communication, alignment, empowerment, and motivation. Empuls' features - social intranet, engagement and lifecycle surveys, values and goals-based recognition, and delightful rewards enable a multi-dimensional approach to fixing disengagement. Empuls eliminates the hassles of investing in and managing multiple solutions to drive people initiatives that drastically cut down complexity and costs, and improve ROI.

How does Empuls deliver ROI for my organization?

Empuls drives measurable ROI by enhancing employee engagement, increasing productivity, and reducing turnover. It creates a culture of recognition, improves retention, and streamlines rewards and feedback processes. With Empuls, you empower employees, foster collaboration, and build a thriving workforce aligned with your organizational goals.

Can we customize peer recognition programs in Empuls?

Yes, you can tailor workflows, set approval rules, and brand the recognition system to align with your organization’s culture.

Does Empuls support global peer recognition?

Absolutely! Empuls offers multi-language and multi-currency support, ensuring inclusivity for global teams.