Christmas Shopping For Your Employees

If you have employees or you deal with quite a few sub contractors and your company has had a successful year financially, you may, want to share some of that success by giving out bonuses. My suggestion is to not just give bonuses, make it personal and show your employees that you see them as individuals and not just a means to an end. Purchasing Christmas gifts for your employees also.

Christmas shopping for your employees is not an easy task, however. There are a number of factors, which contribute to the difficulty of the situation. The number of employees is one such factor. You may have a large number of employees and they may not share similar interests making it difficult to decide on a gift. Additionally, you may be concerned with the prospect of employees talking about their gifts and jealousy arising if it is believed some employees received more expensive or better gifts than others. This article will discuss some of these concerns and will offer tips for dealing with these dilemmas.

Favoritism is a serious issue which all bosses should carefully consider when Christmas shopping for their employees. Bosses should assume the gifts they give to their employees would be discussed and compared so it is wise to not purchase any gifts, which will be viewed as favoritism. One way to avoid this problem is to purchase the same item for each of the employees. This may seem impersonal but office politics often takes precedence over sentiment and in this case it is wise to give each employee the same item to avoid any potential problems. I started my journey in self employment with a purchase of a laser engraver, so I assure you that you can get the same thing for all of them and make it absolutely personal by placing their names on the item.

You may opt to give more expensive items to higher-ranking employees. This is an acceptable practice as long as each employee on the same tier is given the same gift and employees on higher tiers are given the same gifts as their peers at that level; make the gift fit their position.

Bosses also have to consider finances when Christmas shopping for gifts for their employees. This is a particularly important concern especially in cases where the boss has a large number of employees working for him. In this case the boss may have to consider giving only small token gifts due to the large number of employees. If you are paying for these gifts out of your own pocket, it is not reasonable to expect to purchase extravagant gifts for many employees.

In some cases, you may purchase gifts for the higher ranking employees (managers, foremen, etc.) and a lot them a budget to purchase Christmas gifts for the employees that work under them as it is viewed to be a method of keeping morale high and retaining employees.

The important thing here is to express good will to your employees and sub contractors by making them feel that you were thinking of them as an individual and not a number. The smallest gesture can go along way. Even though they appreciate the bonus, it still doesn’t have the same impact as a personal gift.

Now, saying that, don’t skimp on the bonuses. If they truly deserved the bonuses, make sure that you don’t use that extra money on gifts and leave them with financial issues because they might have been depending on that bonus to help with their Christmas shopping.