Workhuman is a platform for employee recognition and appreciation. Colleagues and managers can thank one another publicly, which produces posts, rewards and insights about the organisation; the company itself describes this as turning appreciation into leadership intelligence. The platform is delivered as a hosted service rather than software to host yourself. The company was called Globoforce until 2019.
Workhuman describes itself as having two headquarters: Dublin, Ireland, and Framingham, Massachusetts. It is privately held and backed by investors including Atlas Venture and Balderton Capital. The contracting entities are Globoforce Inc. in the US and Globoforce Limited in Ireland. Its privacy policy states that Workhuman complies with the GDPR, names the Irish Data Protection Commission as lead authority and relies mainly on its certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for transfers to the US. The policy does not say where data is hosted. European organisations should therefore expect data processing in, and subject to the law of, the United States.