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# Can employees set their own recognition privacy settings in Empuls?

> Yes, Xoxoday Empuls lets each employee control whether their recognitions and milestone celebrations are visible organisation-wide or kept private.

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  Xoxoday Empuls gives every employee individual privacy controls over recognitions, milestone events, and celebration posts, enabling each person to choose between public and private visibility directly from their profile or within the recognition workflow itself.
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## Employee-Controlled Recognition Privacy in Xoxoday Empuls

Xoxoday Empuls treats privacy as a first-class feature, not an afterthought. Every employee can independently configure how their recognition moments—both given and received—appear to the rest of the organisation. A team member who prefers a quieter experience can still feel genuinely appreciated without their recognition being broadcast across the company feed, while colleagues who enjoy public celebration can share openly.

## Visibility Controls at the Point of Recognition

When a manager or peer sends a recognition in Xoxoday Empuls, a visibility toggle appears within the recognition workflow itself. The sender and the recipient can each choose between sharing the appreciation publicly on the social feed or keeping it visible only to the individuals involved. This decision happens in context, so neither party needs to navigate away to a separate settings panel.

For organisations running Xoxoday Empuls connected to communication tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams, privacy settings carry through. A recognition marked private in Xoxoday Empuls will not be pushed as a channel notification, preserving the recipient's preference even across integrated surfaces.

## Milestone and Life-Event Privacy

Beyond peer-to-peer recognition, Xoxoday Empuls applies the same privacy logic to automated milestone events. Birthdays, work anniversaries, and service awards can be broadcast across the organisation or restricted to a closer circle—employees manage this directly from their user profile. This hands control to individuals and reduces the configuration burden on HR administrators.

Organisations using HRIS integrations such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Darwinbox to sync employee data into Xoxoday Empuls will find that milestone triggers respect existing privacy preferences set by the employee. No override occurs at the sync layer, so the employee's choice is always honoured.

## Profile-Level Social Sharing Defaults

Xoxoday Empuls surfaces a social privacy section within each user's profile settings where employees can set a default visibility preference for all incoming recognitions. This means an employee does not need to configure every recognition individually—the default applies automatically and can be updated at any time. The updated preference takes effect from the next recognition received onward.

These controls operate within Xoxoday Empuls's broader security and compliance framework, which is certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II. Privacy preferences are enforced at the data layer, not merely at the UI level.

## Why Granular Privacy Builds a Stronger Recognition Culture

Recognition programmes fail when employees feel exposed rather than celebrated. Xoxoday Empuls's granular privacy settings remove the all-or-nothing barrier, making it straightforward for every employee—regardless of personality or cultural background—to participate authentically. When people feel safe, recognition becomes a genuine signal of appreciation rather than a performative one, and engagement metrics reflect that distinction over time.

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