Kudos® vs. Xoxoday Empuls

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kudos®
Score 6.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Kudos® is an employee engagement and recognition platform, that harnesses peer-to-peer recognition, casual rewards, values reinforcement, and open communication to help organizations boost employee engagement, reduce turnover, improve culture, and drive productivity and performance.N/A
Xoxoday Empuls
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Xoxoday Empuls is designed to help teams move together - aligned to a single vision and able to share meaningful, immediate and personal messages at scale. Whether its about a new employee onboarding, or wishing someone's birthday, or participating in a marathon, all of it can happen in Empuls groups. With Xoxoday Empuls, the user can build a collaborative company culture with features like feeds, announcements, groups, chats, and notifications.
$2.50
per month per user
Pricing
Kudos®Xoxoday Empuls
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kudos®Xoxoday Empuls
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsKudos® pricing is based on the number of users and the length of the contract. Plans start with a minimum of 500 users.
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User Ratings
Kudos®Xoxoday Empuls
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(13 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kudos®Xoxoday Empuls
Likelihood to Recommend
Kudos®
Kudos is especially useful and helpful during project deployment where team members can be awarded kudos and appreciation and motivation for their team efforts in meeting milestones and targets. In some instances, the reward types or gifts may seem irrelevant to some departments in certain regions or my company' operations in other parts of the African continent.
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Xoxoday
Xoxoday Empuls is very much suited for its purpose within our organization - Employee Rewards and Recognitions. Not that it is less appropriate to also be a communication hub for technical/work-related stuff, but I would prefer for it to have its sole purpose for rewards and recognitions. It has gained a special and HAPPY reaction within me, whenever a Xoxoday email pops out of my notification box. "Oh, someone is celebrating their work anniversary! Let me congratulate this person and appreciate all the assistance he/she provided me for the past xx years" or "Someone awarded me? Great! Thank you so much". I wouldn't want Xoxoday to have another purpose than helping me increase my happy hormones.
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Pros
Kudos®
  • One of the most useful aspects of this tool is that it allows you to save the profile of each of the employees individually and to be able to track their activities and give them the recognition they deserve.
  • Another useful feature of "kudos is that the system allows you to assign badges to each profile based on their job performance.
  • I also really like that the platform has a dedicated portal for employees. In which they can see their badges, recognitions and awards obtained for their efforts.
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Xoxoday
  • Onspot award and recognition.
  • Employee Engagement
  • Building communities
  • Creating and maintaining company culture.
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Cons
Kudos®
  • Rewards take a long time to be given out, but this I would put on the company's policy.
  • From my own perspective on a mobile phone, it's not so smooth like on desktop, like searching for a colleagues name sometimes is difficult.
  • Sometimes email notifications take too long to come, or they don't even come at all.
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Xoxoday
  • Nothing in particular.
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Alternatives Considered
Kudos®
I used to work at a company called Sparc that developed its own in-house platform called Teamphoria. It was great software that coupled a lot of the same features as workday but also with a recognition system. Essentially it allocated certain types of recognition levels per month, 1 platinum, 5 gold, 20 silvers, where each was worth a drawing ticket. At the end of the month, someone would be drawn from that pool based on their received recognition and then receive a gift card. However, some abused this system and devalued its purpose and inflated the meaning behind it. Kudos seems to do a good job by having a direct point/monetization system which isn't up for random chance. This can help even incentivize employees to go above and beyond, getting them to work harder since they are receiving recognition for it.
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Xoxoday
Sorry. I haven't used any rewarding system.
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Return on Investment
Kudos®
  • Incentivizes employee to work harder.
  • Helps with thanking our employees for jobs well done without having just a normal "Thank You."
  • Allows the employees to use kudos for company SWAG or items they may need in their lives and it's all possible to get thanks to KUDOS.
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Xoxoday
  • Motivation
  • Productivity
  • Culture
  • Change management tool
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