Gift exchanges at work
At work a gift exchange has one extra constraint the others do not: everybody has to keep seeing each other on Monday. These guides are written around that.
The worst office Secret Santa gifts, an incomplete but painful list
Twelve gifts that have been opened in front of a team and should not have been. A guide to what not to do, written with the deepest respect for everyone who has already done it.
Gift exchanges in a hybrid team, without the office-only crowd winning
The people in the room get the good version and the people at home get a parcel. Here is how to run one exchange rather than two.
You drew a colleague you barely know. Now what?
Three things you already know about them without realising, four categories that work for almost anyone, and the one-line note that does more than the gift itself.
Secret Santa at work: the rules that keep it out of HR
An office gift exchange goes wrong in a small number of predictable ways. Seven rules that cover all of them, and the two decisions that matter more than the budget.
Office birthdays: the system that stops people being forgotten
Every office has the same failure: the first birthdays of the year get cake and the ones in August get nothing. A draw fixes it in one setup.
A leaving gift without the email chain
Collections for a departing colleague are the worst-organised thing in most offices. Here is why, and what to do instead — including when a draw is the wrong tool.
Bringing a team together with a gift exchange, on no budget
Ten euros a head and one afternoon beats most team-building days, for a reason that has nothing to do with the gifts.