For 7 years, I worked at a small gift basket shop. Consider It Done in Downers Grove, IL was a “ma and pa” gift shop that specialized in beautiful and customized gift baskets. I’ve personally built hundreds of baskets, ranging from small boxes to elaborate corporate baskets built in a company-branded cooler. 

Because of my years spent there, I’ve become known as a gifting expert among friends and coworkers.

This holiday season, gift giving is different than ever before, with a majority of gifts being sent by mail rather than hand-delivered at a party or in the office. 

If you’ve been tasked with deciding on this year’s employee holiday gift, we’re here to make your job a lot easier. 

From talking with customers and industry experts, we’ve narrowed down the trending gifts for WFH employees this year into three categories: Cozy & Comfort, Trending Tech, and Home Accessories. Here are the top gifts we’re seeing within each category. 

As with most things in 2020, the upcoming holiday season presents workplaces with a new round of questions. Should we host a virtual holiday party? How do we get gifts to employees at home? What gift can display the appreciation we feel for our teams at the end of this rough year?

We’re here to provide some answers. We’ve been having conversations with companies of all sizes across the country; here are the trends we’re hearing.

Usually on October 1st, we’d be hanging cobwebs on desks, filling kitchen candy bowls, and ordering office costume contest prizes. What does Halloween “in the office” look like when everyone is working from home? 

As with most things this year, it’ll be different. But there are still ways to celebrate the season from a distance and share small joys with your team. Here are our top 5 ways to bring Halloween to your team in 2020. 

For countless offices across the country, this week marks 6 months of working from home. While this time has been full of ups and downs, we want to reminisce on the moments of joy, growth, and togetherness. Here’s what our team has been up to for the past 6 months: 

What items have totally boosted your work-from-home game? What have you purchased to increase productivity and motivation?

With much of the workplace remaining remote for the foreseeable future, companies are wondering how to best continue supporting their employees and providing the supplies needed for work from home success.

Enter Employee Stipends. This new feature allows companies to send a monthly stipend to each employee. Then, the employee can shop the expansive OfficeLuv catalog based on what they need for their home office.  

As states begin to lift shelter-in-place orders, companies are wondering about the return to the workplace. 

Some companies plan to let employees work from home through the end of 2020, while others are offering the option to work from home “forever.” Others still are beginning to plan for staged reentry, and companies worldwide are considering new protocols and practices to get back to work safely.

There’s no doubt that the workplace will look different after COVID-19, with distanced desks and sanitizer stations becoming the norm. With so much to consider when building a reentry plan, it’s hard to know where to start.

We’ve built this framework to do just that – provide a starting point of all things that should be considered in your plan and help you prepare for whenever that time comes.

Get “All Things Considered: A guide to returning to the office” eBook here

Virtual Happy Hours have recently become more commonplace than we’d ever imagined. At the beginning of this work from home span, they were a novelty and a great way to stay connected. However, as the virtual fatigue and other stressors of the current environment ebb and flow, hosting a Virtual Happy Hour for your team can be difficult.

We’re going beyond the Virtual Happy Hour with this list of other Virtual activities you can do with your team to stay connected, upbeat, and diversified in your screen time together.