HR guide | How to send corporate gifts

Working from home during the Covid-19 lockdown can create insecurity among your employees – “Is the company doing well enough?” At the same time, working from home creates a distance between the workers and the company. Therefore, it is even more important to nurture employees and appreciate their efforts. You can easily show appreciation for your employees with a loving greeting from the corporation!

Even if your company is very busy and only some employees have been sent home due to a lockdown, a greeting from the company is still in order! To maintain the togetherness between employees in the workplace, you could create a competition where everyone must submit a photo of their home office in order to win a prize. You could also provide a website link in every giftbox that opens up a video greeting from the head office.

Remember to include a personal, handwritten card or a common greeting in your corporate gift, so your employees know they are missed!

In 2020, a Danish employee could receive gifts of up to a maximum value of DKK 1,200 without paying taxes (of which the Christmas gift may amount up to DKK 900). Therefore, a corporate gift in the price range of DKK 200-300 is optimal, so that your employees are not taxed. It is the thought that counts, not the amount!

The packaging creates the right aesthetic and expectation for the content. Light pastel colours such as dusty blue or pink provides a much-needed touch of spring and are perfect for wrapping a festive rosé gift or an Easter chocolate present. The gorgeous, colourful boxes are also available in a long and slim version, which is perfect for sending a bouquet of dried flowers.

Black packaging is available in various sizes and is the optimal choice for creating an extravagant and exclusive looking wine gift. Choose classic brown mailboxes with wood wool or dried eelgrass filling, if you are sending local, organic goods and want a natural look.

Once you have chosen the type of giftbox you want to send to your employees, you can begin searching the internet for local suppliers that have items that fit in the package. Add beer from your local brewery, delicacies from a nearby farm, chocolates and candles from your town’s lifestyle shops, or add a takeaway gift card from one of the city’s restaurants. During this time, we must stand together and support locally!

Send a cosy gift and friendly greeting to your employees in order to care for all those hard workers! Motivation among employees easily increase when they receive a pat on the shoulder, a smile and of course recognition! Because recognition is just as important to the employees working from home. Send a gift full of treats, candles or dried flowers and provide some cosiness to the home office!

SHOP LIST: Brown mailbox 60, dried eelgrass filling, lavender tissue paper, cellophane bags, pink gift bags, and “packed with love” stickers made from recycled paper.

Spoil your employees with a package containing beer, soda, sweets and snacks – this is always a sure hit with the employees. With this gift, your team will be ready for Friday afternoon cosiness – even if they are working from home. It will uplift any workday and delight your staff!

SHOP LIST: Black mailbox 70, perfect for shipping bottles and snacks! Remember the box filling – on the photo above black sizzlepak was used. You could also choose to send a small package of sweets in the small 10 cm mailing tubes.

Covid-19 has brought many ups and downs for businesses at a time where nothing could be foreseen, and a lot was unexpected. If your business has experienced positive development and you have not had a chance to celebrate the success yet – then it is time to pop the champagne! Send a package with bubbles, confectionary and maybe a little extra gift from the company. The Covid-19 gift idea is going to be so appreciated by the employees working from home.

SHOP LIST: Pink mailbox 50, sizzlepak nature filling, cellophane bags and “packed with love” stickers in grey. Also seen in photos is the pink gift-wrapping paper and mint-coloured grosgrain silk ribbon 16mm.

The perfect Covid-19 Easter gift for your colleagues must be a beautiful, coloured box with wood wool filling and LOTS of Easter eggs and delicious chocolates. Put the chocolate in food-approved cellophane bags and wrap the Easter beer in light yellow tissue paper and light green silk ribbon made from recycled plastic.

SHOP LIST: Light blue mailbox 50, wood wool filling, cellophane bags, stickers, ivory-coloured tissue paper and recycled grosgrain ribbon (9 mm) in light green.

If the company is not able to gather its employees for this year’s summer festivities, then send a summer package with corona beers to your staff. That way, this year’s midway party can be marked as a milestone – and who says you cannot host an online party and make a toast at a video meeting? Send a gift full of summer snacks, and drinks such as fresh juices or beers. There are many possibilities! Just add some colourful packaging and wrapping, and you can easily increase the summer vibes in the company.

SHOP LIST: Black mailbox 55, tissue paper, cellophane bags, stickers, candy bags and pink gift bags.

Christmas usually make all employees gather and therefore, the Christmas cheer is not the same during Covid-19. This is why sending a gift basket will help your colleagues feeling extra warm over Christmas holidays. Your team will feel the Christmas cheer even at their home office.

SHOP LIST: Gift box with window, Christmas-style tissue paper, lux tissue paper, cellophane bags, candy bags and stickers made from recycled paper.