Which Recognitions Appear on the Social Wall

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How recognition visibility works in Xoxoday Empuls

Xoxoday Empuls treats recognition as a personal moment, not a mandatory broadcast. When a manager or peer sends a recognition, the recipient retains final say over whether that moment is shared on the company’s social wall or kept between the sender and recipient only. This design reflects a core principle in Xoxoday Empuls: appreciation should feel empowering, not exposing. Some employees thrive on public acknowledgment; others prefer discretion. Xoxoday Empuls accommodates both preferences without requiring IT or HR intervention.

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Setting a default visibility preference

Employees can configure their default recognition visibility directly in their personal account settings. By switching off public recognitions at the profile level, every new recognition they receive will default to private. This is especially useful for employees who consistently prefer privacy, eliminating the need to act on each recognition individually. The setting is fully self-service and does not require HR or admin approval to change. Employees can update their preference at any time, and the change takes effect immediately for all future recognitions.

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Acting on a recognition after it is received

Even when a recognition has already been approved and delivered, employees can still adjust its visibility. Xoxoday Empuls allows recipients to review an approved recognition and choose to keep it off the social feed after the fact. This post-recognition control is critical for organisations where some team members hold sensitive roles or simply value their privacy. Consider a scenario where a manager recognises an employee via Xoxoday Empuls connected to Microsoft Teams. The employee receives the notification in their Teams workspace, views the recognition, and decides they would rather not have it featured on the company-wide social wall. With a single action inside Xoxoday Empuls, they can mark it as private before it ever appears publicly.

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Why this matters for HR and IT teams

For HR teams managing recognition programmes, this feature reduces the risk of disengagement caused by unwanted public exposure. Employees are more likely to participate in recognition cultures when they trust they have full control over what others see. For IT administrators, there is no additional configuration burden. Visibility controls are built into the Xoxoday Empuls employee profile layer and do not require custom workflows or integrations with systems such as Workday or SAP SuccessFactors to function. Xoxoday Empuls maintains this capability in alignment with its enterprise security standards, including SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, ensuring that employee preference data is handled securely at every layer. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — General