fbpx

Top 5 Holiday Gifts For Employees

If you’ve been wondering what gifts your employees truly want this holiday season? Show your team how much you truly care and give them one of these five...

Employee gifting can be tricky. Not sure where to start? Forget ordering tasteless corporate gifts — company paper weights, cheap pens with your company logo on them or calendars. And even though you mean the best – don’t give them gifts of unsolicited advice (no matter how badly you may want to).

Have you been wondering what gifts your employees truly want this holiday season? If so, show your team how much you truly care and give them one of these five holiday gifts.

 

An unexpected day off

It’s cheap, yet effective. Give your staff something they definitely won’t expect – an extra day off. Develop a plan to avoid scheduling conflicts. No matter how much they love working for you, who couldn’t use a three-day weekend?

 

Cold hard cash

Did you have a better than expected year? If so, when in doubt – give cash. But remember, that cash or cash equivalents, including gift certificates are treated as additional compensation by the IRS and subject to withholding.

 

Did someone say holiday party?

Are you looking for an effective and efficient gift to benefit all of your staff? Throw a company party. The perks are endless and “You can circumvent some of the IRS taxable gift rules for employees. If you were planning to give your employees gift certificates to a local restaurant, host a party at the restaurant instead. Doing this will allow you to write off all expenses of the party and is not taxable. The only rule for holiday parties is for them to be “reasonable” in value (eHow.com).”

 

Employee recognition

If you haven’t shown how much you value your staff lately, here’s the chance. Develop a day of recognition and have fellow employees vote for their peers on a variety of categories including MVP, Most Improved, and so on.

 

Gourmet gifts

Almost everyone can appreciate a great gift basket, gift tower, chocolate, bakery gifts and more for the holidays. Checkout Harry & David for some exquisite, appealing and reasonably priced gift baskets.

 

© YFS Magazine. All Rights Reserved. Copying prohibited. All material is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this material is prohibited. Sharing of this material under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International terms, listed here, is permitted.

   

In this article