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Empuls automatically tracks employee participation in steps, workouts, and wellness challenges through integrations with wearables and fitness apps, awarding points in real time to drive consistent engagement in wellbeing initiatives.
Empuls supports activity-based rewards, allowing employees to earn points for completing steps, workouts, and structured wellness challenges. Points are credited automatically without requiring manual input from HR or managers, reducing administrative overhead while keeping employees consistently motivated to participate.

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How automatic tracking works

Empuls connects with popular wearables and fitness applications to pull activity data directly into the rewards engine. When an employee completes a daily step goal or finishes a workout logged in a connected app, Empuls recognises the activity and credits points in real time. Employees see the reward almost immediately after the activity is logged, which reinforces the behaviours that People teams want to encourage. Notifications delivered through Slack or Microsoft Teams let employees know when they have earned points, turning a personal health milestone into a visible social moment. That visibility creates friendly competition and encourages peers to stay engaged in ongoing wellness programmes.

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A practical example

Consider a company running a quarterly wellness challenge where employees earn points for every 10,000 steps completed in a single day. Empuls tracks step counts through connected wearables, tallies progress daily, and surfaces updates in a shared Slack channel so the whole team can follow along. Employees accumulate points throughout the challenge and redeem them against the Empuls rewards catalogue at any time, choosing from gift cards, experiences, or charitable donations. For organisations running Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Darwinbox as their HRIS, Empuls syncs employee records so that activity and participation data stays aligned with existing HR workflows. People teams get a consolidated view of wellness engagement alongside recognition and rewards data, all within a single dashboard.

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Data security and compliance

Empuls is certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, so all fitness and activity data processed through integrations is handled with enterprise-grade security controls. Employees can trust that personal health data shared via connected apps is protected and used solely for rewards calculation — never shared externally or used for performance evaluation.

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Building habits beyond one-off campaigns

Activity-based rewards work best when the feedback loop is tight. Real-time points, instant notifications through Microsoft Teams or Slack, and a transparent rewards catalogue give employees a clear reason to stay engaged beyond a single initiative. Empuls makes it straightforward for People teams to design recurring wellness programmes that sustain participation across departments and geographies, rather than relying on periodic campaigns that lose momentum after launch. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — Activity-Based Rewards

Rewards Catalogue and Redemption

Explore how employees redeem earned points across gift cards, experiences, and charitable donations within the Empuls catalogue.

Wellness Programme Configuration

Learn how to set up and manage structured wellness challenges, define point rules, and track employee participation in Empuls.