- Decentralised ownership: Assign wallets to HRBPs or team leads, with automated low-balance alerts so budgets never run dry.
- Granular controls: Restrict each wallet to specific award types, teams, or cost centres.
2. Bring recognition and milestones into Google Workspace Empuls is now accessible directly in Google Chat — recognition and milestone alerts without switching tabs.
- Recognition notifications: Get alerts for appreciations, peer nominations, and point redemptions in Chat.
- Milestone alerts: Birthdays and work anniversaries surface directly in your Google workspace.
3. Choose your tone, let AI write the perfect appreciation Employees can now pick a tone — Professional, Friendly, Enthusiastic, or Heartfelt — and get an AI-generated award message instantly. No blank page, no guessing what to write.
- Tone-first approach: Four distinct tones ensure every message fits the moment — whether it’s a formal award or a casual birthday shoutout.
- More recognitions sent: Removing the writing barrier drives higher recognition frequency, especially among first-time recognisers.
4. Build anticipation with a coordinated winner reveal Admins can now hold all award posts and point releases and reveal them together at a scheduled date and time.
- Simultaneous release: All winners announced at once — a company-wide moment, not a trickle of notifications.
- Full scheduling control: Set the exact reveal time; the platform handles distribution automatically.
5. Manage awards and nominations at scale, in seconds Enable, disable, delete awards, and approve or transfer nominations — all in bulk, in seconds.
- Awards: Bulk enable, disable, or delete with optional auto-disable scheduling so award windows close on their own.
- Nominations: Batch approve or decline, and instantly transfer pending nominations when a manager exits.
6. Survey skip logic: show only questions that matter to each employee Questions now adapt based on previous answers — employees only see what’s relevant to them, not a fixed sequence for everyone.
- Set conditions once: Define a rule like “if answer is No, skip to question 5” and the platform routes every respondent automatically.
- Better data quality: Focused surveys reduce drop-off and improve the depth of responses you collect.
7. Mood-O-Meter: understand the “why” behind every score with AI Two updates make Mood-O-Meter easier to respond to and richer in insight.
- Email response links: Employees respond directly from their inbox — no login required.
- AI sentiment analysis: A follow-up question captures the “why,” with AI automatically surfacing themes across all responses.
8. Tune every notification: channel, timing, and content — your way Notification settings are now per-touchpoint — adjust channel, frequency, and content independently for each.
- Per-touchpoint control: Welcome Emails, Sign-Up Reminders, Redemption Reminders, and Wishboard Nudges each have their own settings.
- Edit the message itself: Customise the actual email content for each notification type to match your organisation’s tone.
9. See how recognition shapes your Glassdoor rating over time A new report correlates your recognition activity in Empuls with Glassdoor ratings month over month — making the ROI case for leadership.
- Prove impact to leadership: Show CHROs and CFOs how R&R activity tracks with employer brand perception over time.
- No manual analysis: Data is automatically correlated and visualised — ready to present as-is.
10. Complete reward transaction audit trail, ready in one click Download a single report covering all point credits, redemptions, and expirations for any date range.
- One file, full picture: Replaces the need to stitch multiple reports for audits or budget reconciliation.
- Audit-ready: Built for finance teams and compliance reviews out of the box.
Upcoming features
⭐ Scheduling of custom reports: Schedule and auto-deliver reports to the right stakeholders at the right time — no manual exports needed. ⭐ Agentic support for reports & insights (MCP): MCP integration lets your AI tools talk to Empuls — pull live reports, surface insights, and answer leadership questions on demand. ⭐ Event RSVP: Let employees discover and RSVP to company events directly within Empuls. ⭐ Referral incentive programs: Run fully automated employee referral programs — from submission to reward — without any manual intervention.Want to request a feature on Empuls? Get in touch with our customer success team through Messenger on platform, or email us at cs@xoxoday.com.