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Recognition Reports

Recognition Reports help organizations measure how appreciation flows across the workplace, ensuring recognition programs are inclusive, effective, and aligned with company values. These reports provide visibility into both recognition received and recognition given, helping HR leaders and managers identify participation trends, high performers, and employees who may be under-recognized.

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Recognition Received

Track how employees are being recognized across the organization.

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Key Insights

• Total recognitions received
• Monetary and non-monetary awards earned
• Recognition received from managers vs peers
• Total reward points and redemption value
• Most frequently received awards
• Core values associated with recognition
• Award and nomination history

These insights help organizations identify top contributors, measure recognition fairness, and ensure employees receive visibility for their contributions.

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Recognition Given

Understand how employees, managers, and leaders contribute to the culture of appreciation.

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Key Insights

• Total employees recognized
• Monetary and non-monetary awards distributed
• Recognition frequency and participation trends
• Most recognized colleagues
• Core values most frequently recognized
• Nominations submitted and approval status

This helps organizations measure recognition adoption, manager participation, and overall engagement with recognition programs.

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Reporting & Analysis

Recognition Reports provide flexible analysis capabilities through:

• Date-based filtering
• Employee-level drilldowns
• Pivot views and segmentation
• Recognition trend analysis
• Manager vs peer recognition insights

These reports help HR teams monitor program effectiveness, improve recognition participation, and build a stronger culture of appreciation.

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Who Uses This Report?

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HR & People Teams

Monitor recognition adoption, participation, and alignment with company values.

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Managers

Track team recognition trends and identify employees who may need greater visibility.

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Employees

View personal recognition history, awards earned, and recognition received from peers and managers.

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Business Impact

Recognition Reports help organizations:

• Improve employee engagement
• Increase recognition participation
• Identify under-recognized employees
• Reinforce company values
• Measure the effectiveness of recognition programs
• Build a culture of continuous appreciation

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Budget Report

The Budget Report provides complete visibility into how reward and recognition budgets are allocated, utilized, and managed across the organization. It helps HR, Finance, and program administrators track spending, monitor budget health, and ensure recognition programs remain financially sustainable. Budget Overview Get a real-time snapshot of your organization’s reward budget performance through key budget metrics, including:

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Key Insights

• Total points allocated across all budget owners
• Total budget allocated (monetary value)
• Total points spent
• Total budget spent (monetary value)
• Total points remaining
• Total unused budget value
• Budget utilization percentage

These metrics help organizations understand overall budget health and identify opportunities for optimization.

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Budget Utilization Analysis

Understand how recognition budgets are being used across teams, departments, and budget owners.

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Key Insights

• Budget utilization by individual users
• Remaining balance available for spending
• Percentage of budget utilized
• High and low budget adoption trends
• Recognition activity across managers and teams

This helps identify managers who actively recognize employees, teams that require additional budget allocation, and areas where recognition adoption can be improved.

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Pending Spend Visibility

Track upcoming budget commitments through pending nominations and approval-based reward programs.

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Key Insights

• Value of pending nominations
• Expected future spend
• Budget commitments awaiting approval
• Potential impact on available budgets

This allows HR and Finance teams to anticipate future spending and maintain better financial control.

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Points Movement Tracking

Monitor the complete lifecycle of reward points within the organization.

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Key Insights

• Points rewarded to employees
• Points distributed through gifting programs
• Points revoked or canceled
• Overall movement of points across the platform

These insights provide a transparent audit trail for all reward-related transactions.

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Reporting & Analysis

The Budget Report supports flexible analysis through:

• Date-based trend analysis
• User-level reporting
• Department-level reporting
• Budget-specific filtering
• Recipient-based drilldowns
• Utilization comparisons

This helps organizations understand spending patterns and optimize future budget allocations.

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Who Uses This Report?

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HR & People Teams

Track recognition adoption, manager participation, and budget effectiveness.

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Finance Teams

Monitor spending, unused budgets, and financial planning for reward programs.

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Program Owners

Manage budget allocations, top-ups, and utilization across recognition initiatives.

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Leadership

Understand investment in employee recognition and its adoption across the organization.

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Business Impact

The Budget Report helps organizations:

• Improve budget visibility and control
• Optimize reward program spending
• Identify underutilized budgets
• Ensure fair budget distribution
• Support governance and compliance
• Forecast future budget requirements
• Maximize ROI on recognition programs

By providing a centralized view of budget allocation, utilization, and spending trends, the Budget Report enables organizations to run scalable and financially sustainable recognition programs.

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Redemption Report

The Redemption Report provides visibility into how employees utilize their earned rewards and points. It helps HR, Finance, and program administrators track redemption activity, monitor reward liabilities, manage wallet balances, and ensure financial transparency across reward programs.

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Redemption Overview

Understand both pending and completed redemption activity through two key views:

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To Be Redeemed

Track reward points that employees have earned but not yet redeemed.

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Key Insights

• Redeemable points held by active employees
• Redeemable points held by inactive employees
• Current redemption wallet balance
• Outstanding reward liabilities

This helps organizations estimate future redemption costs and funding requirements.

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Redeemed

Monitor points and rewards that have already been redeemed.

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Key Insights

• Total redeemed points value
• Number of redemption orders placed
• Redemption trends over time
• Employee reward utilization

These insights help measure engagement with the rewards catalog and understand employee redemption behavior.

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Redemption Summary

Access a detailed view of redemption activity across the organization.

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Key Insights

• User-wise redemption balances
• Total redeemable points
• Redeemable monetary value
• Currency-wise redemption data

This enables organizations to track outstanding liabilities and gain visibility into employee reward balances.

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Wallet Management

Monitor the financial health of your rewards program through wallet-level visibility.

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Key Insights

• Current wallet balances
• Redemption wallet utilization
• Funding requirements
• Available reward budgets

This helps administrators proactively manage wallet funding and avoid disruptions in reward redemption.

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Taxation Reports

Simplify compliance and payroll processing with dedicated reward taxation reports.

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Rewarding Taxation Report

Track the value of rewards distributed across the organization.

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Key Insights

• Total points received by employees
• Monetary value of rewards
• Currency of rewards
• Source of rewards and incentives

This helps HR and Finance teams calculate taxable benefits and support payroll reporting requirements.

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Redeemed Taxation Report

Track taxation impact based on actual reward redemption activity.

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Key Insights

• Redeemed reward value
• Taxable redemption benefits
• Employee-wise redemption records

This supports compliance in regions where tax obligations are triggered only upon redemption.

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Reporting & Analysis

The Redemption Report supports flexible analysis through:

• User-level reporting
• Department-level reporting
• Cost center analysis
• Budget-based filtering
• Recipient-based filtering
• Redemption trend analysis

These capabilities help organizations understand reward utilization and optimize reward program investments.

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Who Uses This Report?

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HR & People Teams

Monitor employee reward adoption, identify low-redemption groups, and improve engagement with reward programs.

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Finance Teams

Track redemption liabilities, reconcile wallet balances, and support payroll taxation processes.

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Program Administrators

Manage wallet funding, monitor redemption trends, and evaluate reward catalog performance.

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Business Impact

The Redemption Report helps organizations:

• Track reward utilization and engagement
• Monitor outstanding redemption liabilities
• Improve financial planning and forecasting
• Simplify reward taxation and compliance
• Manage wallet funding efficiently
• Optimize reward catalog effectiveness

By providing complete visibility into both pending and completed redemptions, the Redemption Report helps organizations maximize the value of their rewards programs while maintaining financial control and compliance.

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Gift Report

The Gift Report provides complete visibility into all gifts distributed across the organization, helping HR teams, administrators, and finance stakeholders track gifting activity, monitor spend, and ensure employees receive timely celebrations and milestone rewards. The report captures both automated and manually distributed gifts, providing a centralized view of gifting programs and their impact on employee experience.

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Gift Overview

Get a high-level summary of gifting activity across the organization.

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Key Insights

• Total gifts sent
• Total gift points distributed
• Monetary value of gifts sent
• Overall gifting activity during the selected period

These metrics help organizations measure gifting adoption and monitor spend across employee engagement programs.

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Gifting Summary

Track gift distribution at an employee level to understand how gifting programs are being utilized.

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Key Insights

• Birthday gifts received
• Service anniversary gifts received
• Onboarding gifts received
• Other occasion-based gifts received
• Gift points distributed
• Monetary value of gifts received

This helps organizations ensure employees are consistently recognized during important milestones and celebrations.

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Automated Gifts Report

Monitor gifts that are triggered automatically through predefined workflows and employee lifecycle events.

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Common Automated Gifts

• Birthday gifts
• Work anniversary gifts
• Long service awards
• New joiner welcome gifts
• Learning milestone rewards
• Custom automated gifting programs

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Key Insights

• Gift category
• Number of automated triggers
• Distribution trends across milestones
• Reach of gifting programs

This helps administrators verify that automations are functioning correctly and that milestone celebrations are being delivered as intended.

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Manual Gifts Report

Track gifts distributed manually by HR teams, managers, or program owners.

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Common Manual Gifts

• Festival gifts
• Contest rewards
• Spot appreciation gifts
• Team celebration rewards
• Event-based gifting

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Key Insights

• Number of manual gifts distributed
• Gift categories used
• Recipient details
• Associated gift value

This helps organizations maintain governance, track ad-hoc gifting spend, and evaluate participation in engagement initiatives.

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Reporting & Analysis

The Gift Report supports flexible reporting through:

• User-level reporting
• Department-level analysis
• Cost center reporting
• Gift category analysis
• Date-based trend analysis
• Organizational filtering

These capabilities help organizations understand gifting patterns and measure the effectiveness of employee celebration programs.

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Who Uses This Report?

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HR & People Teams

Ensure employees receive milestone and celebration gifts while tracking program adoption.

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Managers

Review gifting activity across teams and ensure recognition is distributed fairly.

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Finance Teams

Monitor gifting spend, validate budget utilization, and support compliance requirements.

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Program Administrators

Track automated workflows, monitor manual gifting activity, and manage engagement programs.

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Business Impact

The Gift Report helps organizations:

• Ensure employees receive milestone celebrations
• Improve visibility into gifting programs
• Monitor gifting budgets and spend
• Audit automated and manual gifting activity
• Strengthen employee experience initiatives
• Measure engagement through celebration programs

By providing a centralized view of all gifting activity, the Gift Report helps organizations deliver consistent employee experiences while maintaining transparency, governance, and financial control.

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Raw Data Report

The Raw Data Report provides Super Admins with direct access to detailed platform-level data across recognition, rewards, gifting, budgets, surveys, user activity, and system transactions. It serves as a centralized reporting layer for auditing, compliance, analysis, and operational reporting. Unlike summary reports that focus on aggregated insights, the Raw Data Report allows administrators to access granular records and export data for deeper investigation and custom analysis.

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Comprehensive Data Access

The report provides access to raw records across multiple areas of the platform, including:

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Recognition & Rewards

• Awards
• Core Values
• Leaderboards
• Reward Points Expiry
• Destroyed Reward Points

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Budget & Financial Data

• Budgets
• Budget Transactions
• Reward-Based Taxation
• Redemption-Based Taxation

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Gifting & Redemption

• Gifts
• Redeemable Links
• Redemption Records

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Employee Engagement

• Surveys
• Conversations

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User Activity & Audit Logs

• Login Activity
• Proxy Login Activity
• User Audit Logs

This allows organizations to access complete historical records for operational and compliance needs.

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Advanced Filtering & Analysis

The Raw Data Report supports flexible filtering to help administrators quickly locate relevant information.

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Key Capabilities

• Date-range filtering
• Category-specific reporting
• User-level analysis
• Transaction-level visibility
• Audit trail tracking
• Export-ready datasets

These filters make it easier to investigate specific events, validate transactions, and generate custom reports.

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Audit & Compliance Visibility

The report provides detailed activity logs that help organizations maintain transparency and governance.

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Key Use Cases

• Track user activity and system access
• Review budget and reward transactions
• Validate gifting and redemption records
• Monitor changes made within the platform
• Support internal audits and compliance reviews

This ensures organizations have a reliable source of truth for platform activity and reward-related transactions.

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Who Uses This Report?

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Super Admins

Access detailed platform data for operational oversight, troubleshooting, and governance.

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HR & People Teams

Review recognition, rewards, gifting, and survey-related data for analysis and reporting.

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Finance Teams

Validate budget transactions, reward distributions, taxation reports, and redemption activity.

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Compliance & Audit Teams

Maintain audit trails, investigate discrepancies, and support regulatory or internal compliance requirements.

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Business Impact

The Raw Data Report helps organizations:

• Access detailed platform records in one place
• Improve reporting accuracy and transparency
• Support audits and compliance requirements
• Investigate user activity and transactions
• Validate reward, gifting, and budget data
• Generate custom reports for business analysis

By providing granular access to platform data, the Raw Data Report enables organizations to maintain strong governance, improve operational visibility, and make informed decisions backed by accurate data.

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Custom Reports

Custom Reports allow administrators to create tailored reports by combining specific data sources, filters, and date ranges. These reports help teams focus on the metrics that matter most, making it easier to monitor programs, track performance, and share insights with relevant stakeholders. Custom Reports can be saved, shared, edited, and reused, eliminating the need to repeatedly configure the same report.

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Create Tailored Reports

Build reports using data from multiple reporting categories across the platform.

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Available Report Sources

• Awards
• Gifts
• Nominations
• Budget
• Redemption
• Reward-Based Taxation
• Redemption-Based Taxation

Administrators can apply multiple filters and reporting criteria to create reports that align with specific business, compliance, or operational needs.

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Flexible Filtering & Analysis

Customize reports using a variety of filters and reporting options.

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Key Capabilities

• Date-range filtering
• User-level reporting
• Department-level reporting
• Cost center analysis
• Budget-specific filtering
• Recipient-based filtering
• Custom report configurations

This allows teams to focus on the most relevant data while reducing reporting complexity.

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Report Management

Easily manage and organize custom reports from a centralized location.

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Key Capabilities

• Search reports by name or description
• Locate reports using associated email addresses
• Edit existing reports
• Delete outdated reports
• Share reports with stakeholders

This ensures reporting remains collaborative, scalable, and easy to maintain.

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Role-Based Viewing

Empuls allows stakeholders to view reports based on their role and access permissions, ensuring relevant insights while maintaining data privacy.

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View As Employee

Administrators can switch report views to see exactly what another employee, manager, or stakeholder can access.

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Benefits

• Validate report visibility
• Troubleshoot access issues
• Verify reporting permissions
• Improve governance and compliance

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Access by Role

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Super Admins

Access organization-wide reports, budgets, recognition activity, and program performance data.

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Managers

View team-level recognition, participation, and engagement insights for their reporting hierarchy.

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HR Business Partners (HRBPs)

Access reports for assigned business units or departments to monitor adoption and program effectiveness.

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Cost Center Heads

Review recognition budgets, award utilization, and participation trends within their cost centers. This role-based approach ensures stakeholders receive relevant insights without exposing unnecessary organizational data.

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Reporting & Sharing

Custom Reports can be configured once and reused whenever needed.

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Key Benefits

• Save frequently used reports
• Share reports with stakeholders
• Standardize reporting across teams
• Reduce manual reporting effort
• Enable consistent decision-making

This helps organizations create a scalable reporting framework that supports ongoing analysis and governance.

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Business Impact

Custom Reports help organizations:

• Create highly targeted reports for specific business needs
• Reduce manual reporting effort
• Improve reporting accuracy and consistency
• Enable role-based access and governance
• Support compliance and operational reviews
• Share actionable insights across stakeholders

By allowing organizations to build reports around their unique requirements, Custom Reports provide greater flexibility, visibility, and control over employee engagement, rewards, recognition, and budget data.

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