Gift Ideas Perfect for Your Employees, Coworkers, and Clients

To show your appreciation to your employees, co-workers, and clients, let’s find some thoughtful, practical and affordable gifts. It's tricky finding a one-of-a-kind gift for someone you're not too close to. However, there’s always something for every price range and personality.

Perfect Desks

As they spend all day at their desks with screens, a perfect desk should be equipped with beautiful plants, practical desk accessories and funny stationery. Flowers and green plants are vibrant and refreshing, giving people a good mood every day. The blooming flowers are colorful and require more attention while drought-tolerant plants are much easier to care for. Preserved flowers are also recommended as they are rich in color and can be preserved for more than three years without considering follow-up maintenance.

Office stationery is usually quite boring and dull but there is also something unusual and creative. A well-designed stationery set has a positive influence and impression on the recipient. Also, the color of your gift is as well important.

We are surrounded by color, and whether we realize it or not, we are always affected by them without realizing it. For example, blue and green can usually calm us down while red makes us nervous. Almost every color has some sort of meaning attached to it. Although sometimes they have completely different meanings by different races and cultures around the world, colors that are low in saturation can give you a comfortable and relaxing workplace.

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Tea Breaks

Nothing is more important than tea time in workdays’ afternoon. A tea break is one of the most effective ways to stay energetic, efficient and manage stress at work. Sending food as a gift suits everyone even if the gift will vanish soon. A cup of coffee is always able to wake you up after a long day of work. Scented tea, mixed with different dried flowers and dried fruits, can relieve the blood vessels around your eyes, help relax your muscles, and refresh your brain. If the budget is not that tight, you may consider some tools, like a self-stirring mug, or a professional coffee maker.

Home Gym Equipment

Facing computers for long can put heavy pressure on our bodies, so working out at home is a perfect way to relax after work. Obviously, there are so many convenience benefits to building a home gym. Firstly, you don’t need to account for travel time to and from the gym carrying your heavy gym bag. Secondly, the weather can’t stop you anymore and there is no excuse for not working out every day. Last but not least, home is a pressure-free zone to exercise where nobody will judge for how you look or how are you dressed.

Those professional, expensive and huge pieces of equipment might need more space than you thought, so the safe choice is a cost-effective small home gym equipment, such as an exercise mat, dumbbells, kettlebells, resistance bands, jump rope, and so on.

Relaxing Gifts

Everyone experiences a variety of stress, which can cause terrible emotions while doing harm to the body, so it’s important to relieve yourself before going to bed every night. A relaxing gift can connect you with the recipient on a personal level, like fragrance candles, massagers, and bubble bath soap, helping people to fully relax at home and alleviate symptoms caused by stress like headache, elevated heart rate and blood pressure, forgetfulness and confusion.

Customized Corporate Gifts

Apart from the above, if you are going to send gifts on behalf of the company, you may think about customized gifts. They not only identify your business, but also are valuable advertising tools, building trust, consistency, and loyalty to bring in and maintain customers.