That's the real, answer, but one sentence blogs aren't very interesting; and neither are those gift cards.
Whether you are handing out gift cards for employee motivation and recognition or you're handing them out for an employee holiday gift, please stop. Look, I know why you're doing it, but I also want to let you know, you don't have to.
If you have an employee base of 300 or 10,000 there's nothing more challenging than trying to manage how to distribute the employee gift. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You order 3,000 fleece blankets, have them all shipped to your location and then set up a time for your employees to come pick them up for the next 4 weeks or better yet, you give each department manager their employee's gifts and delegate the responsibility of distribution to them. Well, at least this time, it's a fleece blanket and not a fleece jacket that has sizing to deal with, ughh!
Following the event, you now have a closet (or room) full of left over blankets you now stack on top of the tumblers you did last year. You've convinced yourself at the next meeting for holiday gifts, you're going to suggest handing out gift cards. They are small, easy to distribute and they certainly don't have any size requirements. They also get lost, stolen, and don't create an emotional connection to the employee you're giving them to.
It's a fact, people like getting stuff. Your employees enjoy being recognized and your brand should be associated with the emotions of receiving a gift.
allcustomwear.com has developed a platform that manages the entire process of giving employees endless options of product, and distributing that product without anyone at your location needing to be involved.
So, if you are trying to increase HCAHPS, having an OSHA Compliant safety program, or measuring some other employee behavior or distributor co-op, we can customize a program just for you. AND, there won't be any left over blankets when we're finished.
In addition, allcustomwear.com has recently developed a mobile app for managers that remove the manual processes of rewarding the employee and long manual processes for keeping track of who is handing out points and who has received them. It provides instant gratification to the employee for being awesome at their job and we give clean, detailed reporting to give an enormous amount of visibility and intelligence to your programs.
People enjoy being rewarded. Just let your brand be associated with the reward and not Shell Oil.
