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Empuls supports dynamic, ad-hoc team recognition, enabling any user or admin to create and manage teams on the fly and send peer-to-peer or group recognition without requiring IT involvement or complex setup.

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Recognition for teams that don’t fit the org chart

Most recognition tools are built around fixed org structures — departments, reporting lines, cost centres. But real work happens in cross-functional squads, project pods, and temporary task forces that never appear in Workday or SAP SuccessFactors. Empuls is designed for both. Any user or admin in Empuls can create a dynamic team at any point, add the right people to it, and immediately start sending or receiving recognition within that group. There is no approval workflow or admin bottleneck between the idea and the action.

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How ad-hoc teams work in Empuls

When a new team is created in Empuls, it becomes a recognition target like any other group. Managers can spotlight the entire team for hitting a launch milestone. Peers can send appreciation to individuals within the group. Empuls tracks all of it under the team’s activity feed so momentum stays visible. Consider a product launch sprint: a designer, two engineers, a marketer, and a customer success lead form a temporary group outside the normal hierarchy. Within Empuls, a manager creates this team on the day the sprint kicks off. When the product ships, she sends a team-level recognition post that notifies every member and surfaces in the company feed — visible to leadership without anyone needing to forward an email chain.

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Peer-to-peer recognition across any team boundary

Ad-hoc team support extends to peer-to-peer recognition as well. A team member in one group can recognise someone in another without needing to know their department or reporting structure. Empuls resolves the recipient through its people directory, which syncs with connected HRIS systems like Darwinbox or SAP SuccessFactors. Recognition delivered through Empuls also reaches people where they work. Notifications surface in Slack and Microsoft Teams, so members of a temporary project group see shout-outs in the same channels they use for daily standups — no separate app switch required.

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Structured and spontaneous moments, both supported

Empuls does not force organisations to choose between structured programs and spontaneous recognition. Formal award programs can run alongside informal, manager- or peer-initiated recognition for ad-hoc teams. The same flexibility applies to cadence: a team can receive recognition once during a quarterly review cycle or every week during a crunch period. Empuls is ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, so teams handling sensitive projects can use recognition features without raising compliance concerns about data handling or access controls. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — Recognition

How does peer-to-peer recognition work in Empuls?

Understand how employees can recognise colleagues across any team boundary without manager intervention.

Can managers send team-level recognition in Empuls?

Learn how managers spotlight entire teams for milestones, sprints, and collective wins.