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GLOBOFORCE LTD provides strategic employee recognition solutions for Global 2000 companies. Founded in Dublin in 1999, the company opened a US office in 2004 and now is co-headquartered between the two countries. Eric Mosley, founder and chief executive, first started Globoforce as a dot.com for consumers to purchase gift cards online from international merchants.

At this time he identified a bigger opportunity and his business vision was to become a global leader in the provision of a service to help companies engage their global employees through a single reward and recognition portal. Today the Globoforce recognition platform supports 1.7 million employees across the company's client base of more than 100 international corporations. Mosley explains that through its sophisticated, easy-to-use, on-demand technology platform, it transforms the way enterprises motivate their workforces and empowers the most successful organisations on all continents. It claims to be the only company that can offer locally-relevant rewards to all participants across the globe through their innovative multi-language, multi-currency offering.