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Empuls surfaces a dynamic monthly leaderboard showing the most recognized employees and the most active recognition givers, visible to the entire organization by default, with admin-configurable visibility controls by team, department, or role.
Empuls maintains two parallel monthly rankings: employees who have received the most recognition from peers and managers, and employees who give recognition most consistently. Both lists are visible across the organization by default. Making both sides of the recognition exchange visible matters — it signals that generosity is valued just as much as achievement. Default organization-wide visibility When a recognition event is recorded in Empuls, it feeds directly into the leaderboard in real time. By the end of each month, the rankings reflect actual peer and manager activity, not nominations or self-reporting. Every employee can see where colleagues stand, which creates a natural incentive to participate more actively in recognition. Empuls surfaces these leaderboards inside the tools teams already use. Organizations running Slack or Microsoft Teams can display live rankings directly inside channels, so employees stay informed without switching between apps. Participation happens in the flow of work, not in a separate dashboard that people have to remember to visit. Granular admin controls Admins are not locked into a single global view. Empuls allows visibility to be scoped by team, department, or user role — useful when running parallel recognition programs with different audiences. A company-wide values recognition initiative might use an organization-wide leaderboard, while a department-level performance sprint uses a scoped one visible only to that group. For organizations that synchronize HR data from Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Darwinbox, Empuls reflects org-structure changes automatically. If a team is reorganized mid-month, the leaderboard segments update without manual intervention, keeping rankings accurate and relevant. A practical example Consider a People team running a global recognition campaign across three regions. Empuls can display a unified global leaderboard on the company intranet while simultaneously pushing region-specific rankings into each team’s Slack channel. The APAC team sees APAC leaders; senior leadership sees the full company view. Admins configure this once; Empuls handles the segmentation based on the org hierarchy already synced from the HRIS. Trustworthy, auditable data Every recognition event that feeds the leaderboard is timestamped and tied to a verified user action. No manual entries, no gaming through self-recognition. For organizations with compliance obligations, this auditability is meaningful. Empuls is certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, so the data underpinning your leaderboards meets enterprise security and privacy standards. Whether leaderboards run openly across the whole company or are scoped to specific programs, Empuls gives HR and People teams the control they need to make recognition visible, fair, and aligned with the culture they are building. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — Recognition

Peer-to-Peer Recognition

How Empuls enables employees to recognize colleagues directly, reinforcing values and building a culture of everyday appreciation.

Recognition in Slack and Microsoft Teams

How Empuls delivers recognition notifications and leaderboard updates inside Slack and Microsoft Teams without requiring a separate app.