Christmas Gifts for Employees – Sustainable Gift Ideas

Finding the right Christmas gift for employees can prove to be a difficult and time-consuming search. Therefore, simple corporate gifts such as coffee mugs, drinking bottles, key chains, backpacks, or power banks that also contain the company logo are often used. While these ideas are legitimate as marketing material, they are not suitable as Christmas gifts for employees because they are simply too impersonal.

However, there are also many ways to bring real joy to your employees and give them a truly personal Christmas gift as a thank you for their work. For example, you can rely on individually equipped gift baskets . In this blog post, we'll give you 5 tips to help you find and put together the perfect employee gift .

Why give something to employees?

The employees of a company are undoubtedly the engine and heart of every company. They ensure that processes in the company run smoothly and bring in new ideas. Many companies would therefore like to pay a little attention to employees at Christmas as a thank you for the work they do every year.

On the one hand, small employee gifts at Christmas express the appreciation for the employees. On the other hand, small gifts can also increase motivation and motivate recipients to perform at their best. In addition, gifts, which are often given at company parties or Christmas parties, provide a sense of community and are ideal for team building.

Overall, this also has a positive effect on the attractiveness of the company as an employer and can therefore also have an indirect effect on satisfaction, attachment to the company and the loyalty of employees.

Incidentally, the value of the gift to employees is incidental. It is important that you think about the recipients and their needs. Only the exemption limits for benefits in kind for employees must be observed . In Austria, the limit for tax-free employee gifts is a maximum of EUR 186 per employee per year. In Germany, vouchers, products, or services in kind are tax and social security-free up to 50 euros per month.

Give breakfast as a gift and bring lasting joy

There are many different gift ideas for employees. Some typical gifts are vouchers or cash gifts and in-kind gifts such as chocolates, coasters, bottle openers, and advent calendars. Many of these ideas are already widespread and have therefore lost their attractiveness and originality.

However, individually designed gift baskets with various food items are still particularly popular with employees . Gift baskets allow employees to discover new products and have the advantage that the products can be personalized. This gives employees the feeling that supervisors have thought about the needs of the employees and that they are important to them.

For individually designed gifts, it is also particularly important to use high-quality products. If you want to put together a food gift, you can create a breakfast gift set , a snack gift set or a chef gift set, for example .

With an individualized food gift basket, you can also ideally respond to the needs of your employees, and you also have a long-term benefit from the gift by being able to use and consume products day after day.

5 tips for the perfect employee gift

For the perfect employee gift, there are a few points that you can pay attention to in order to make your employees happy.

1. Personalize employee gifts

The most important point with employee gift sets is personalization. This means that you should pay attention to individually designed boxes or gifts instead of standardized packages. This shows that you, as a supervisor, care about your employees and have thought about it.

For example, if you want to give a food gift box with various treats to your employees, pay attention to their preferences. If necessary, you can also ask about their personal eating habits during lunch breaks.

2. Choose high-quality manufacturers

It is particularly important not to rely on cheap promotional gifts such as pens, backpacks, or power banks for employee gifts, but to choose high-quality products and manufacturers. Because with high-quality products, you also fulfill a personal benefit for the recipients.

This also shows your employees that you have put a lot of thought into selecting the gift and have conducted research for a suitable gift yourself.

3. Rely on regional and sustainable products

For many companies, it is important to focus on regional and/or sustainable ideas when giving gifts to employees. For example, you can rely on farms in your area or on sustainably produced products such as products made from natural substances or organic food.

4. Individual packaging and personalized cards

The best thing about gifting is always the moment of handing over, when the recipients are happy about the little attention. It is all the more beautiful if the gift is also personalized and addressed personally to the recipient or if a personalized card is enclosed.

5. Look for practical and useful products

Last but not least, you should ensure that your employees can do something with the gift and find it useful. For this reason, food is ideal, as you can respond to the needs of employees without too much effort. In addition, employees are often happy to try out and taste new and unfamiliar products.

The benefits of Verival gift sets

Are you looking for high-quality personalized gift sets for Christmas , events, birthdays, or as a customer present? Then you've come to the right place! You will only find premium organic breakfast products in our range, which consist of 100% organic ingredients. We produce our breakfast products in the heart of the Alps in Tyrol in our small manufactory with a total of 40 employees.

VERIVAL offers a selection of breakfast products from the categories porridge, granola, cereal, sports breakfast, and breakfast for children, as well as various snacks such as nuts and waffles. Many of our products are also gluten-free, sugar-free, lactose-free, nut-free, and vegan . Thus, you can consider employees with allergies or certain dietary habits.

In addition, we also offer various breakfast accessories such as cups and bowls , which can be optimally combined with our breakfast products.

For your individual gift set, you can combine any number of breakfast products or snacks of your choice and determine the value of the gift sets yourself . This allows you to easily assemble personalized gift sets yourself and thus adapt them perfectly to your needs. VERIVAL offers gift set options for businesses of all sizes. Our minimum order quantity is only 10 pieces and up to several hundred gift sets can be ordered.

Our gift sets are individually wrapped by hand . We are happy to send the gift sets to a collective address or to individual home office addresses.

Employee Gifts – Overview of our gift options

At Verival, you have various options for customizable gift boxes . On the one hand, you can put together gift sets consisting of various breakfast products. You can also order snack gift boxes with savory and sweet waffles, nut mixes, and more. You can also assemble purely gluten-free, lactose-free, or vegan gift boxes.

Of course, you can also purchase gift boxes according to different themes . For example, you can also order porridge gift boxes, sports breakfast gift boxes, granola gift sets, or muesli gift sets. In addition, we also offer matching cups and bowls with Verival engraving , which can be optimally combined with our breakfast products or snacks.

Our gift boxes all come with high-quality gift packaging . On request, you can also have a greeting card enclosed.

Do you want to make your employees very happy at Christmas? Then ask here without obligation and order your personalized gift set for your employees!

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