Empuls Vs. O.C. Tanner

Empuls is a leader in holistic employee engagement, helping organizations craft their unique culture and motivate employees.

Learn why companies choose Empuls over O.C. Tanner to implement employee rewards and recognition programs.

4.6 rating

Best Employee Engagement Software

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Trusted by 5000+ companies worldwide

What separates Empuls from O.C. Tanner

1000+ CHROs globally power their employee engagement and rewards strategy with Empuls

Empuls

Massive rewards catalog with 10M+ options spanning across 50+ categories and 100+ countries, featuring both local and global brands to keep everyone engaged and motivated.

O.C. Tanner

A limited catalog selection with slow processing times, making it difficult to find and redeem rewards efficiently.

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Empuls

Cost-effective platform offering comprehensive solutions for employee listening, recognition, perks & benefits and communication on a single platform without compromising the user experience. All-in-one Employee EX Pack - $9/month/user

O.C. Tanner

Offers a luxury pricing model that requires you to invest heavily to get the results you want.

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Empuls

Empuls’ AI capabilities are integrated across recognition programs, communication channels, and surveys, simplifying work for HR, people managers, and employees through an intuitive UI, recommendation engine, intelligent prompts, and insights.

O.C. Tanner

AI capabilities are limited to recognition suggestions making it hard to identify gaps in engagement, analyze feedback and get actionable insights.

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Empuls

A single platform lets you implement and manage Rewards & Recognition, Perks & Benefits, Surveys & Action Plans, Employee Communication and Communities. It enhances the overall employee experience with a multi-pronged approach to engagement.

O.C. Tanner

Offers solutions for Rewards & Recognition with limited capabilities compared to the comprehensive feature set of Empuls.

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Hear from customers who chose Empuls

Jared C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“Excellent employee engagement solution, especially for large and/or fully remote companies"

Rewarding users for their hardwork with gift cards and other awards is seamless.

Dileep B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“Elevating employee engagement and recognition for enhance retention and productivity”

User-friendly interface, social recognition and customizable reward options.

Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5 out of 5

“Revolutionizing Employee appreciation: A Game-changing saas Solution”

Streamlined, intuitive, and data-driven, it empowers real-time acknowledgment, diverse rewards and insightful analytics.

More reasons to choose Empuls

Whether you’re taking your employee engagement and rewards program digital for the first time, looking to switch from O.C. Tanner, or evaluating both platforms, unlock a measurable increase in engagement and retention with our AI-powered platform.

Features

Empuls

O.C. Tanner

Recognition

Core Value Badges

Tie recognition with your core values by uploading custom value badges or choose from 150+ built-in value badges.

Peer Awards

Set up Peer-to-Peer Recognition that can be tied to rewards and does not require approval.

Spot Awards

Empower people managers to recognize team members in the moment when they deliver outstanding results.

Nomination-based Awards

Choose built-in workflows for seeking award nominations and defining nominators, approvers, and nominees.

Limited

Jury Awards

Deliver exclusive awards annually or bi-annually, using a jury panel to review award nominations.

Long Service Awards

Recognize employee loyalty with service awards that celebrate the completion of a significant tenure.

Milestone Awards

Celebrate significant milestones in the employee’s journey, from onboarding to exit and everything in between.

Employee Incentives

Tie company goals and KPIs with incentives, motivating employees to meet and exceed expectations.

Contests & Challenges

Run contests tied to rewards focused on employee well-being, such as step challenges, group hikes, meditation rituals, and more.

Limited

Wall Of Fame

Digital wall to showcase employees celebrating milestones, service awards, performance awards, and receiving frequent recognition.

Yearbook

Celebrate service anniversaries with a personalized yearbook that highlights the employee's journey, achievements, and moments of recognition throughout the year.

Public & Private Recognition

Based on employee preference, admins can set the visibility for recognition and awards to be either public, or private.

Recognition & Reward Programs

Rule-based workflows enabling the automation of multiple types of recognition and awards based on various triggers, conditions, and reward criteria, including approvals.

Reward Program

Implement reward program framework spanning multiple types of awards, across locations, departments, and teams on a single dashboard.

Reward Cycles

Automate start and end dates, nudge nominators and approvers, announce winners, and deliver rewards.

Reward Scheduler

Schedule rewards in advance for planned events, milestones, and holidays.

External Recognition

Let your customers, vendors, partners, clients or patients acknowledge your employees for their hard work.

Rewards

Perks

Benefits

Surveys

Social Intranet

Employee Profile

Community Groups

User Access Settings

AI Capabilities

Reward Catalog

Reports

Personalization

Security & Compliance

Enterprise Capabilities

Integration

** All comparisons are based on open-source data

Enterprise grade platform that is fully secure and designed to scale

Data protection is of utmost importance at Xoxoday, and we are committed to providing a safe, secure, and compliant loyalty ecosystem for businesses.

Our customers love us

“Truly elevated our employee recognition program”

We initially implemented Xoxoday for our Long-Service Awards, but after exploring their social intranet and customer support, we began utilizing additional modules for employee engagement. The platform is excellent, and its extensive Rewards & Recognition options provide employees with a variety of choices.

“Exceptionally smooth launch process”

A global catalog of e-vouchers on Xoxoday and redemption in multiple currencies helped KPIT immensely with the geographical scalability of their R&R program and the culture of excellence initiative.

“Noticeable positive impact on culture.”

You can build a fancy program on awarding employees and saying thank you, but in the end, the redemption process must be really useful, easy, and user-friendly to your employees. Xoxoday served the purpose just right.

“The customer service that they offer is exceptional and commendable.”

Our employees really like the Xoxoday rewarding process. The customer service that they offer is exceptional and commendable. That was the most important criteria for us to decide on them.