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Are you inspired by Random Acts of Kindness Week to build workplace kindness in your organization? Great! We can help with free resources to inspire workplace kindness – everyday!
Now’s the time to start. Only one in four employees feel valued at work, a 16 percent drop from last year, according to the TINYPulse Employee Engagement Report.
“Managers are falling behind in their recognition efforts,” the study concludes. (more…)

Random Acts of Kindness Week is here! In honor of the importance of kindness, let’s build more workplace kindness together this week.
Kindness is a powerful way to build engagement, encourage well-being and break up workplace stress.
Celebrating kindness reminds us to incorporate it more into all aspects of our everyday life — with family, friends and our communities. Ever tried sharing unexpected kindness? It’s contagious and creates a ripple effect of shared goodwill and feelings of appreciation. (more…)

Want to attract top candidates who’ll stay loyal to your company through thick and thin? You need a dynamic employer brand that immediately stands out to potential employees — the kind of employer brand that not only attracts the right people for the job but gets them excited and keeps them around longer.
Talent sourcing is an increasingly complex undertaking due to advances in technology and access to big data, as recent Bersin by Deloitte research shows.
But there’s one aspect of attracting great employees that will never go out of style: great communication. (more…)

In a memorial tribute to Mary Tyler Moore this week, Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik recalls an iconic example of a workplace Thank You on her show in the 1970s.
The brief speech Moore gives to her newsroom coworkers during the show finale, in character as the “groundbreaking, professional, working-woman” Mary Richards, still resonates with Zurawik.
After asking her boss if she can say a few words, she tells the assembled employees:
“I get to thinking my job is too important to me. And I tell myself that the people I work with are just the people I work with, and not my family.
“And last night I thought, ‘What is a family anyway?’ They’re just people who make you feel less alone and really loved. And that’s what you’ve done for me. Thank you for being my family.” (more…)

Happy National Pie Day!

Let’s be honest, any day is a good time for pie. But if you need an excuse… enjoy Pie Day today and share a sweet treat with your at-home or work family. It’s an opportunity to engage and celebrate each other. And easy with gThankYou! Pie Gift Certificates!
Don’t worry if you missed today, create your own “pie day” or celebrate the next PI Day – March 14th! This is a celebration of the mathematical constant known as pi, or π, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, commonly approximated as 3.14159. Mathematicians love pi because “it puts infinity within reach” and has a “tantalizing” tension between order and randomness, according to the New Yorker article “Why Pi Matters.”
What does math have to do with the pie we eat? (more…)

Happy New Year!

The celebration-filled holiday season is over, party streamers down, gifts shared and game prizes won. Now what? How will you sustain that workplace spirit and employee happiness into the new year?
If increasing employee happiness is one of your workplace goals this year, you’re not alone.
Organizations big and small are re-evaluating their strategies as Gallup continues to report low employee engagement across industries. Gallup data shows Millennial workers in particular aren’t responding to traditional engagement. (more…)

The new year will be here before you know it! Staff appreciation gifts for the New Year are the perfect way to celebrate the successes of the prior year and get energized for what’s ahead.
New Year’s is widely celebrated and non-religious, making it a good choice for a workplace celebration.
“Focus on thanking employees for a successful year and encouraging the same enthusiasm and dedication to the company for the approaching New Year,” according to the SHRM article “HR Pros: Make Year-End Celebrations Inclusive.” (more…)

Need a holiday gift to share with your staff, fast? Order gThankYou! Holiday Ham Gift Certificates today and get them as soon as tomorrow!
gThankYou! Ham Gift Certificates are good for any brand of half or whole ham and for any preparation, allowing recipients to choose what’s best for their family. And our Gift Certificates can be redeemed nationally at virtually all major grocery chains stores in the U.S. (more…)

Feeling stuck trying to pick the perfect employee holiday gifts to share? You’re not alone — workplace gift-giving can be intimidating, especially if you’re new to it.
Forget all the do’s and don’ts that are stressing you out and imagine for a minute …
How would Santa choose employee holiday gifts?
Santa delights children around the world year after year, right? He’s a gift-giving authority! (more…)

The new comedy “Office Christmas Party” is every HR team’s nightmare of a workplace holiday party gone bad. The movie has every poor-taste cliché going: drunken debauchery, regrettable social choices with bosses and coworkers, and a big mess of property damage to clean up the next morning. It’s enough to make any HR department want to cancel the workplace holiday party, immediately. (more…)

The stakes are high with employee holiday gifts.
A lot of responsibility rests on your shoulders if you’re in charge of picking, ordering and distributing gifts for employees at the holidays.
Pick the wrong gift, and it could end up on one of the many lists mocking terrible workplace gifts. Bad gifts from bosses are so commonplace that the Emily Post Institute created a multiple-choice quiz to test holiday gift-giving knowledge and warn against common mistakes.
People don’t have much confidence in companies to get it right, either. (more…)

Happy International Volunteer Day! Today we’re celebrating the benefits of workplace volunteerism.
International Volunteer Day is a UN-spearheaded effort to highlight and honor the work of volunteers around the world in areas such as education, youth engagement, health, poverty eradication and the environment.
If you’re interested in celebrating the day in your workplace or sharing information about your company’s volunteer work on social media, be sure to check out these (more…)

Some families share a turkey as the centerpiece to their holiday feast. And some families share a ham. Give everyone what they want for the holidays with gThankYou! Turkey or Ham Gifts!
Turkey or Ham Gift Certificates from gThankYou give recipients the flexibility to choose. They’re meaningful, appreciated and convenient!
Choosing an employee holiday gift that recipients will love can be a challenge, especially when you’re tasked with finding a gift to please a large workforce with a wide range of ages, backgrounds and interests. (more…)

Celebrate the gratitude and joy of the season with a traditional Christmas ham gift!
Everyone appreciates the gift of food during the holidays, especially one that’s the centerpiece to their holiday celebration.
It’s a meaningful gift they can share with their families and build memories around.
Make your Christmas ham gift program easy this year: share gThankYou! Ham Gift Certificates. gThankYou makes it easy to plan any size of ham gift program — or for a complex distributed workforce or even at the last minute. (more…)

Veterans Day is in November. Wondering how to thank veterans in your workplace and beyond?
If you aren’t already, now’s a great time to start incorporating celebrations of giving and honor (like Veterans Day) into your employee engagement calendar!
Thanking the veterans in your workplace isn’t just a nice thing to do for them, it’s also an excellent opportunity to engage all employees with gratitude and a good cause. Employees now more than ever are embracing workplace volunteerism, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and giving back to their community with coworkers.
Here are five tips for how to thank veterans in your workplace and community as a tool for employee engagement.
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Sorry. It’s the one word that may be holding back you and your team from building a stronger culture of workplace gratitude.
Apologies have their place. But you’re probably saying “Sorry” when “Thank You” would be better.
“If you’ve truly done something to hurt or offend someone, an apology is best. But so often the things people apologize for in daily life are ambiguous,” Julie Beck, senior associate editor at The Atlantic, writes in her article “The Power of Casual Gratitude.”
“A ‘sorry’ is a token offered to ward off guilt and to keep others from being irritated with you. But it’s just basic economics that the more of these coins you have in circulation, the less they’re worth,” she writes. (more…)

It’s November, and that means the holiday season of gratitude is here! Seize the opportunity to honor and celebrate with your staff — write a Thanksgiving letter to employees this month.
Writing Thank You notes is a practice shared by many of the most successful CEOs in business, like Campbell Soup Company’s Doug Conant and Pepsi’s CEO Indra Nooyi.
But you don’t have to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company to write the kind of Thank You letter that employees tell their families about and remember for years to come.
We are excited to introduce our new eBook,  “Put the ‘Thanks’ in Thanksgiving: How to Write a Thanksgiving Letter to Employees”,  the perfect resource for inspiring your Thanksgiving letter to employees this holiday season. Download this FREE eBook for step-by-step tips and lessons from real-life examples from workplace leaders. (more…)

Workplace culture is defined in part by the corporate ethics a company practices. And when there is an ethical breakdown — such as the widespread fraud case reported by The Wall Street Journal at Wells Fargo — it can have a toxic effect on workplace culture.
Employees and customers are paying attention. Ethics matter in every aspect of business now, from hiring talent to attracting customers, as more people demand corporate social responsibility. (more…)

Say “thanks!” to your employees with the centerpiece to any holiday meal: gThankYou! Turkey or Ham Gift Vouchers give recipients the flexibility to choose what they want most as the highlight of their holiday feast.
Choosing an employee holiday gift that recipients will love can be a challenge, especially when you’re tasked with finding a gift to please a large workforce with a wide range of ages, backgrounds and interests. That’s why the gift of a Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas ham is one of the most meaningful yet affordable gifts you can buy. Enjoy our free download “10 Reasons to Give Employees a Turkey for the Holidays” and learn why businesses have been sharing a Thanksgiving turkey for over a century. (more…)

Halloween is less than two weeks away! Are you ready? Make it easy on yourself this year. Plan ahead for a workplace celebration that energizes employees with Halloween team building.
Games, a costume parade, themed potluck, or contest for best office decoration — Halloween team building activities turn the focus on play, laughter and connecting with coworkers.
Play is a powerful tool to increase creativity and strengthen relationships. Employees will return to work with renewed enthusiasm and better ideas. (more…)