Sending Birthday Gifts For Employees

Automation is 🔑

Join their loved ones in saying “We’re so happy you’re here! We’re so happy to know you!” and incorporate birthday gifting into your employee appreciation KPIs this quarter.

Here’s some things you need to know about employee birthday gifts to get started.

And with all that work, you might even miss someone’s birthday by a day or two. But that’s where automation saves the day.

So Step 1 of sending employee birthday gifts is finding a tool that can integrate with your HRIS to automate your whole process. Now, all you realllyyy have to do is set a budget - and maybe pick a gift! More on that later.

Let’s Talk Gift Options 🎁 
(based on your budget)

Birthday gifts for employees should be as unique as their recipients.

When you have only a few people to gift throughout the year, the personalization isn’t a hassle. But as your team grows, finding the perfect staff birthday gifts can be tough.

Remember: your team is cool. They’re filled with parents, kids (not kids kids, but someone’s kids!), aunts and uncles, friends, hobby-goers, enthusiasts, adventurers, movie buffs, snackers, and home-bodies to list only a FEW.

All this is to say that a one-size-fits-all gift may be… meh for a dynamic team like yours.

When you enable your team to pick their own birthday gifts, you take the load off them and you. You’re getting rid of your decision fatigue while also putting your giftees in a treating yo’self mindset.

Adding Touches of Personalization 💓

Want to stay on-brand for birthdays? Maybe you want to keep the gifts in line with your company culture or want to offer staff birthday gifts that scream 🎉CELEBRATE 🎉. If you have the inspiration, you should totally do that.

Create your own catalog, pick specific items that you want the birthday people to choose from, like Sweets, Tech & Gadgets, or Adventure, and let your giftees choose from a curated selection.

Some gifting platforms will charge you a flat rate for each item, no matter what their individual cost is.

But the good platforms (*clears throat*) will only charge you for the employee birthday gifts you actually send. 😉

So many countries, time zones, currencies, brands - HELP! 😖

Listen, the “new normal” of remote and global teams is exactly that. Normal. And it has to be treated that way even when it comes to sending birthday gifts for employees. Normal and easy.

The best way to do that is with a Universal Gifting Link, that will automatically update the catalog items and currency based on your recipients IP address.

What does that mean for you? Simplicity.

No more creating different gifting campaigns based on location. No more math. Any math. No more researching what brands are popular where.