A different kind of post today
For the last few months we have written a lot about Christmas rewards: hampers, spreadsheets, local catalogues, employee choice, activation, logistics and the small operational details HR teams carry into December.
Today does not need another checklist.
If you have read one article or followed the whole series, thank you for giving us some of your attention.
For the HR teams still working
Some people teams will still be answering employee questions, fixing a missed recipient, closing payroll tasks or preparing for January while much of the company has already slowed down.
That work is easy to overlook because the best employee operations often become invisible when they go well.
We hope you get a proper break too.
For everyone who received something
Maybe your company sent a hamper. Maybe it gave you a voucher, a bonus, credit, a party or simply a thoughtful message. Maybe there was no Christmas programme at all.
However your workplace marks the end of the year, the gesture matters most when it recognises that employees are people before they are rows in a spreadsheet.
That idea is bigger than any reward product.
What we learned writing the series
The recurring theme was not that every company should use the same mechanism. It was almost the opposite.
People are different. Markets are different. Companies are different. Good reward infrastructure should create enough consistency for HR without pretending employees have identical preferences.
That is why we keep returning to one sentence: give your people credit, let them choose.
Thank you
Thank you for reading, challenging the ideas and spending part of your year with PeopleCredits.
However you are spending today — working, travelling, celebrating, resting or doing something completely ordinary — we hope it is a good one.
We will be back with more practical thinking about employee rewards in the new year.
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