Product Updates

Find out what is new in Empuls, to improve your employee experience

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Product Updates (March, 2024)

Enhanced appreciation posts feed

Enhance appreciation posts by incorporating dynamic images, GIFs, or videos against fixed backgrounds. This feature creates a dynamic feed experience on the social intranet, offering a distinctive media flow on published appreciation posts.

Bulk nomination for all awards

Enable bulk nominations of individuals and teams, excluding reward collection awards.

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Auto approval of nominations

Streamline the reward process by automatically approving nominations when they reach the highest nominator level.

Manage points of exited employees

Choose the right option to recover unused budgets and reward points of exited employees. If the employee has an unused budget, it can be transferred to a co-owner or supervisor. The exited employees' reward points can be destroyed or retained in an unredeemed state.

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Seamless appreciation flow in mobile view

Experience a seamless appreciation flow on mobile devices, ensuring consistent user engagement.

Customize homepage banners

Personalize your Empuls homepage with banners aligned with your brand guidelines. Reinforce your organization's identity for every user.

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Customize feed card background

You can now customise the feed card backgrounds of birthday, anniversary, new joiner posts, banners on wish boards, profile screen banner and background of wall of fame.

View service anniversaries at a glance

Never miss celebrating a service anniversary again! Our updated feed consolidates all milestones into one post, allowing users to congratulate peers directly from the wishboard.

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Automated new hire notifications

Automatically announce new hires on Empuls and MS Teams. Updates to employee profiles are also reflected in these posts, making it easy for colleagues to welcome new team members.

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Integration with UKG

Manage user accounts seamlessly through a standard API integration. Admins can securely import employee information and manage access roles.

Download employee data as CSV

Allow admins to download employee data in CSV format. This facilitates thorough validation before integrating with HRMS, ensuring accuracy and eliminating discrepancies.

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Upcoming features:

Plan Reward Cycle in advance

Admins can now plan reward issuance in advance with automated processes for nominations, notifications, and messages. You have the flexibility to enable or disable rewards as needed.

Delegate access to user account

Admins can temporarily transfer their account access to another user during emergencies. Delegates logging in on behalf of the admin must provide a reason, prompting an immediate email alert to the admin.

Product Updates (November, 2023)

1.Employee gifting for the holiday season

Spread joy and camaraderie by sending thoughtful gifts automatically with options from amazon, swag, vouchers.

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2. Link-based rewards and instant/automated gifts

Employees can now receive rewards through unique links. These links contain predefined collections of products configured by the admins, and employees can choose their rewards exclusively from this curated list.

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3. Enhanced reminders for employee greetings

Empuls allows you to send multiple reminders to managers, peers or direct reports until they post their wish: T-30 days, T-15 days, T-7 days & T-1 days. This is to achieve higher participation in wishing colleagues on their birthdays and work anniversaries.

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4. Limit the number of people nominated in a single team award

You can set a higher and lower limit for the number of people to be nominated for a team award. This is to help HR stay within the budget for team awards.

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5. Refyne integration

This integration enables employees in India to access their earned wages in advance. Reach out to us for more details on this integration.

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6. Merchandise choices for link-based rewards

Empuls now seamlessly integrates with the merchandise catalogue, which can be added to your reward collection, enabling you to offer diverse merchandise options to employees for various occasions.

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7. Microsoft Viva integration

This integration allows posts from Empuls, for appreciations, birthdays, and work anniversaries, to be automatically shown on Microsoft Viva.

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8. Survey access

In this update, HR and business head can access all pulse survey responses while all other users will have Team-level access, enabling them to exclusively observe the responses within their respective teams.

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9. Deletion and duplication of custom Pulse survey

This update introduces a new feature that empowers HR with the ability to create duplicates of finalized surveys and delete any previous test surveys. This functionality ensures a cleaner final report by eliminating test responses from consideration.

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10. Personalized feed on mobile

The new mobile app homepage now consists of message feed lists with the option to personalize the list, by sorting and applying custom filters, which appear as Recommended (as default).

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11. Embed or upload videos to your posts

Simply embed videos within your posts on the Empuls mobile app. You can either upload a video or embed it by pasting the link from YouTube directly in your posts.

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Product Updates (October, 2023)

1) Merchandise and experiences options on Empuls

Access the merchandise store, in-house swag, experiences, gift cards and amazon catalog within Empuls via storefront integration.

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2) Physical gifting catalog for Years-of-service award via Amazon

With the Empuls and Amazon integration, you now get a physical product catalog in the USA and Canada. End users can now choose from a predefined array of products as part of their award.

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3) All new Empuls

We’ve been working hard for some time now to give Empuls a facelift. Presenting Empuls’ new user interface for a more efficient and powerful user experience.

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4) UI revamp for mobile

Launching an all new look for the home screen, and sections like appreciate, feed, profile and notification. Experience seamless navigation from the side menu for enhanced accessibility.

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5) Multi language support for surveys

Admins can choose to send the survey in their regional language, and end users can select their preferred language to respond to the survey.

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6) Pulse survey dashboard

The new pulse survey dashboard allows admins to share survey results with different stakeholders like People Managers, HRBP, and BU heads so they can keep track of active surveys.

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7) PDF downloads for surveys

Our new feature allows the seamless creation of custom survey reports. Gather responses, insights, and analytics formatted in downloadable PDFs for effortless sharing and analysis.

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8) User management for survey

Enjoy tailored communication for survey-only users. Receive customized notifications, reminders, and email nudges exclusively related to surveys, enhancing user engagement and response rates.

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9) Quick links

Empuls Quick Links ensure swift access to vital resources. From policies to knowledge documents, effortlessly find what you need, enhancing your team's productivity and efficiency.

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10) Wall of fame

Showcase your most recognized employees and achievers in public spaces like the company intranet, televisions at office lobbies, and more.

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11) Embed video uploads

Now simply embed videos within your posts. You can upload a video or embed by pasting the link from YouTube directly in your posts.

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12) Private appreciation

Admins can now create private awards, for individuals or groups and if required can add points to it. End users can simply share these awards, and respondents will receive it privately.

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