Emotional Footprint Awards 2025
Employee Rewards and Recognition
SoftwareReviews names Applauz Recognition, Vantage Rewards, and Kudos as Employee Rewards and Recognition Emotional Footprint Award Winners.
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Employee Rewards and Recognition
Emotional Footprint Awards
SoftwareReviews Emotional Footprint Awards evaluate and rank products based on emotional response ratings from IT and business professionals. Using our Emotional Footprint methodology, we aggregate emotional footprint scores across 26 dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
Emotional Footprint Awards are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional “magical” components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.
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Measuring Emotional Footprint
Emotional Footprint is scored using our “Net Emotional Footprint” Index. This index tracks responses across 26 dimensions of emotional footprint that span 5 categories: Purchasing, Service Experience, Product Impact, Vendor Strategy, and Conflict Resolution. Then, the following calculation is done across this index:
% of Positive Reviews - % of Negative Reviews
For clarity, the total percentage of positive, neutral, and negative ratings is shown for each vendor as well.
Emotional Footprint Leaders
Applauz
Applauz Recognition
This comprehensive solution provides the essential tools to foster a positive work environment and boost employee morale. Easily implement peer-to-peer recognition, allowing employees to acknowledge each other's efforts and achievements on an engaging social feed. Managers can set up automated celebrations for milestones like work anniversaries and birthdays, ensuring no special moment goes unnoticed. Applauz Recognition Starter helps you build a culture of appreciation and motivates your team to perform their best.
9.2
CX Score
CX
Score
+98
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
90
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Vantage Circle
Vantage Rewards
Vantage Rewards is a holistic rewards & recognition platform that leverages AI-powered technology to foster a culture of appreciation for an increasingly hybrid workforce. Designed to enhance employee productivity, Vantage Rewards simplifies and automates the entire recognition experience with on-spot and timely appreciation. With its SOLI based framework, it ensures regular and equitable rewards across organizations, especially those with global presence. Our cross-channel integrations along with diverse redemption options elevate the entire user experience of a rewards and recognition platform.
9.1
CX Score
CX
Score
+92
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
86
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Kudos Inc
Kudos
As a communication tool, Kudos enables team members, managers and leadership to stay connected, collaborate and coach. It promotes the entire team to share important information, from personal status updates to the organizational vision and goals.
8.9
CX Score
CX
Score
+91
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
83
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Other Evaluated Vendors
Bonusly Company
Bonusly
Bonusly is a smart and fun engagement solution that powers daily connections between teammates, driving big organizational wins. Bonusly combines 360-degree recognition and rewards that employees love to drive engagement. Bonusly helps you celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automate time-consuming HR admin processes, run and incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards your employees
8.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+92
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
84
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Qarrot
Qarrot
The Qarrot platform is an integrated solution for HR, team leads, and small business owners to centralize all of their recognition, motivation, and celebration initiatives. It is recognition software for growing businesses to improve workplace culture and employee performance. It provides an affordable tool for growing companies to empower their managers and employees to send points and badge-based recognitions, to motivate individual and team performance with performance-based awards, to celebrate birthdays and work-anniversaries with automated milestone awards, to increase their program's visibility with an engaging public social feed.
8.4
CX Score
CX
Score
+93
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
85
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Reward Gateway Ltd
Fond Rewards
Fond is an employee rewards program that enables your employees to send points to each other, along with recognitions for hard work, major accomplishments, and more. Employees around the world use these points to redeem incredible rewards and corporate perks on the Fond platform. Fond is available in multiple languages for your global workforce.
8.3
CX Score
CX
Score
+97
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
88
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Motivosity
Motivosity
Motivosity is a full suite employee engagement & recognition platform, with the mission to make people happier at work. Motivosity improves company cultures by focusing on three of the top drivers of employee satisfaction: feeling appreciated for your work, being part of a community, and having a meaningful relationship with your manager. Our software helps organizations measure & improve eNPS, retain top talent, and truly drive positive company culture.
8.3
CX Score
CX
Score
+88
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
82
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Awardco
Awardco
Awardco is an all-in-one Rewards & Recognition Solution and has teamed with Amazon Business to provide a powerful and flexible software for all your recognition programs. Using the largest reward network in the world you can show your employees how much you appreciate them by allowing them to choose rewards they actually care about - with no markups.
8.3
CX Score
CX
Score
+96
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
86
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Recognize
Recognize
Recognizeapp.com’s peer recognition program empowers employees to acknowledge each other through proven badging mechanics and reinforcing company values. This innovative approach not only boosts morale but also aligns individual contributions with organizational goals. Recognize supports your company culture with meaningful, value-driven peer recognition.
7.8
CX Score
CX
Score
+88
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
86
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Reward Gateway Ltd
Reward Gateway
Reward Gateway's all-in-one Employee Engagement Platform helps create a streamlined and centralized employee experience customized for each organization. A flexible platform empowers HR to choose the right combination of engagement tools – from market-leading reward and recognition solutions, communications, surveys, wellbeing and employee discounts – in order to meet the changing needs of their people and their company.
7.8
CX Score
CX
Score
+91
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
82
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
Workhuman
Workhuman Social Recognition
Employee recognition is one of the most important factors in workplace engagement and retention. With Social Recognition, employees can give peer to peer recognition awards to one another and make the workplace feel more inclusive. Workhuman's Social Recognition software helps companies unleash their employees’ hidden potential, ignite unparalleled productivity and engagement, and cultivate a magnetic workplace culture that attracts and retains the crème de la crème – all while improving your company’s bottom line.
6.6
CX Score
CX
Score
+74
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
77
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
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