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Xoxoday Empuls supports fully custom reward and recognition badges for campaign-specific events—such as Women’s Day, Pride Month, or Employee Appreciation Day—entirely separate from standard performance, behavior, extra-curricular, and education metrics.
Standard recognition programs anchor rewards to job performance, behavioral competencies, extra-curricular contributions, or learning milestones. Xoxoday Empuls goes well beyond these defaults, enabling HR and admin teams to design purpose-built recognition campaigns for cultural moments, company milestones, and awareness initiatives—without touching the core R&R framework. Through the social intranet in Xoxoday Empuls, admins configure entirely new badge sets tied to a specific campaign. Each badge carries its own visual identity, name, and description so that recipients and the wider workforce immediately understand the context behind the recognition. A Women’s Day campaign badge, for instance, can reflect themes of leadership and inclusion—visually and semantically distinct from the evergreen “Rising Star” or “Team Player” badges used year-round. Beyond the badge itself, Xoxoday Empuls lets admins attach point allocations and personalized gift options to each campaign. Recipients redeem their points from a global rewards catalogue spanning merchandise, experiences, gift cards, and charitable donations—so the recognition carries tangible value regardless of where employees are located. Campaign recognitions surface in the organization’s social feed, making them visible across teams and geographies. When an employee receives a Pride Month recognition, colleagues can react and comment directly in the feed, amplifying the moment and encouraging broader participation. If your organization uses Slack or Microsoft Teams, Xoxoday Empuls pushes recognition notifications into those channels automatically, so employees never need to leave their existing workflow to engage. For organizations running HRIS platforms like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Darwinbox, campaign data syncs so employee records stay consistent. Campaign recognitions can also be mapped to values or goals specific to the initiative rather than to the organization’s standard competency framework. An Employee Appreciation Day campaign can celebrate qualities like resilience or community impact—attributes that matter deeply in the moment but may not appear in a formal performance rubric. This separation keeps special campaigns feeling meaningful and distinct rather than like a variation of the annual review cycle. Admins manage the full campaign lifecycle—badge creation, award criteria, point budgets, scheduling, and redemption tracking—within a single unified workflow in Xoxoday Empuls. There is no need to coordinate across separate tools or export data manually to run a time-boxed recognition initiative end to end. Learn more: [Xoxoday Empuls Help Centre — R&R program](

How do peer-to-peer recognitions work in Empuls?

Learn how employees nominate and celebrate each other through the Xoxoday Empuls social intranet, outside of manager-driven award cycles.

What award types can admins configure in Empuls?

Explore the full range of award categories—spot, value-based, milestone, and campaign—available to admins in Xoxoday Empuls.