Ways to Reward Employees this Festive Season!

Festive gifting is an essential part of any employee rewards and recognition program. With Christmas and New Year just around the corner, businesses and teams are working towards finding the best fitment for the gifting programs. We dug in a bit on various trends, spoke to relevant people in various teams in different companies, and came up with a host of solutions that can be explored this Festive Season!  

Fitness Bands

The rising importance of maintaining and monitoring fitness has made wearable technology like fitness trackers, bands an excellent gift option, whether it is for your employees or your business partners and clients. A wide range of smart wearable devices are available in the market that fit all kinds of budgets. 

Mindfulness and Wellness App Subscriptions

 Overall employee wellbeing has gained focus for businesses in post-pandemic times thus mindful gifting gained momentum. Instead of going for novelty or utility-driven gifts, employers can choose thoughtful gifts like wellness app subscriptions that would enhance their employees’ experience and assist them to get healthier physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Calm and Cult mind fit are two mobile apps that provide daily meditation courses to aid with anxiety, attention, sleep, and other issues. These apps also offer guided meditation audios and videos, soothing sleep stories, calming nature scenes, and sounds, etc.

Digital Gift Cards

Digital employee benefits and gifting solutions have been taking over ever since the majority of workforce started working from home. Digital gifting is convenient owing to speedier execution and availability of a wide range of products and services. Digital gifting solutions like Sodexo gift cards offer employees the flexibility of choice. Their Premium Pass Celebration is the perfect choice for festive gifting. The gift cards can be tailored to your organisation’s needs and can add a personal touch through customisation by adding the recipient’s and organisation’s names to the card.

Healthy Food Hampers

Since health and wellbeing have gained a place in the spotlight everywhere, health food hampers can also make for an excellent festive gift for your employees. These hampers can include healthy food options like dry fruits, variants of green tea, organic snack options, infused honey, flax/chia/sunflower seeds and so on. You can also opt to send exotic fruit baskets that consist of various fruits.

While it is important to pick out match that best fits the organisation’s budget and rewards and recognition policy, it is equally important to ensure that the rewards offered are in line with the expectations of employees.  Businesses can optimise productivities by appropriately recognizing their employees efforts, rewarding them, and communicating comprehensively.