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A company I know gave all their employees company branded beach towels, sunscreen, water bottles, and bucket hats for Christmas when it was making record profit
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
A company I know gave all their employees company branded beach towels, sunscreen, water bottles, and bucket hats for Christmas when it was making record profits. Being in the southern hemisphere, beach paraphernalia is seasonally appropriate, but I suspect they would've preferred just being given their share of the money that was spent on company branded products. Or, you know, a bonus because, well, record profits.
In maybe an unrelated note, a few of those employees later stole from the company.
- DocTomoe 4y agoOften, this is a side-effect of tax code weirdness. In my legislative framework, branded stuff is considered "advertisement", which can be given out with any amount of value to employees. Non-branded stuff - or money - would be taxable income. With a tax rate of up to 48%, that's a difference, and paperwork for the employee. So I have a very nice thermos with my employer's logo on it, and I am quite happy about it.
- taffronaut 4y agoUnfortunately a lot of custom branded swag is sold B2B by companies who have not much idea about quality and are just branding so-so unbranded junk. Conversely I was happy to receive an iFixit pro toolkit with our company logo embroidered on the outer instead of the iFixit logo.
- bombcar 4y agoThe key to finding good branded stuff is to find the stuff first, then figure how to brand it.
- seb1204 4y agoIf the items are good, high quality I don't mind branding. If you want you can also make it more subtle. But don't give me the cheap use once beach towels and expect me to be forever grateful. All in all best gifts are time or money. E.g 2 paid days off.
- washadjeffmad 4y agoI wonder how many were let down when they realized the gifts weren't, in fact, a hint at a paid beach vacation for the team?