Full time employees, does your employer ever reward you with gifts?

[peacemaker]

I've noticed a trend with startups and newer companies that get gifts for employees on their work anniversary or birthday. Obviously some form of this has been around for a while (passing around the birthday card to sign etc.) but I think it is becoming more popular to give out gifts like caricatures, personalized mugs, bobble-heads and so on.

What do you guys think, is this a growing market? Does your place of work rewards you with gifts like this?

 

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[Oswalito]

The day I have employees, I will... F*ck a bobble-head doe...

if I'm not mistaken, a company here in canada can deduct a total of 500$ per employee on gifts for like a birthday and shit... I'd get people watches or something a bit more classy than a caricature or a personalized item.

spend a grand, expense half of it. not too bad if you ask me.

 

[Ninjakid]

At my first and technically only ever job, employees got gifts for birthday and Christmas. The company had been around for over 20 years, and had at least a couple hundred employees. I felt it made you like the company that much more. Workers will notice when they're noticed. So when I hire employees, I'm going to do the same thing.

 

[AntEmpire]

The only gift I ever got from my employer was permission to leave 10 mins early.

 

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[Waisec]

From employers? Never. It's common over here though to pool money together for a colleague and get him a gift, money, a nice drink, flowers, whatever.

Smaller companies or start-ups might do it however, which I think is an effective and cheap way to buy employee loyalty and make them feel appreciated. So why not

 

[peacemaker]

Yeah exactly, it seems like small companies do it for loyalty to get more work out of employees. It's actually quite effective and cheap to do I think. Big companies on the other hand don't seem to care one bit about it.