What Are WFH Employees
A WFH employee is an employee that works from home. During the COVID-19 pandemic as many office jobs as possible have been transferred to working from home to promote social distancing and stop the spread of the virus.
The emergence of a largely at-home workforce lends a new set of challenges for keeping the employees engaged with the company. Here are some ideas for how to use office gifts to connect the employees and with the company even from a distance.
Office Gift Ideas For Work From Home Employees
Here are a few ideas of office gifts that can be given to employees who are now working from home or have been working from home since before the pandemic.
Branded Pens
When an employee works from home they may end up using more of their office supplies. Instead of using up all the ink from their pens at home, it is a nice thought to provide them with a set of logoed pens. It will make them feel like more of a part of the team to be using pieces of branded office supplies at their home office.
Laptop Bags
Even though an employee works from home, at times they may need to bring their laptop to the office or to a coffee shop to work. They may even need to tote their laptop to meet clients for a meeting.
Laptop bags are a unique piece of personalised swag that will be useful to work from home employees. Get the company logo printed large on the front of a laptop bag so that it will be hard to miss when they’re working at the coffee shop.
Other Types of Bags
- Tote bags: Canvas tote bags are cheap to make and have a lot of surface area for different designs.
- Drawstring bags : Drawstring bags are a good option for toting around office supplies like pens, staplers, etc. They can be worn as backpacks too.
- Gym bags : Working from home can be a sedentary lifestyle. To encourage your employees to get out and exercise (proven to increase productivity), consider making logoed gym bags.
Mugs
Working from home has many challenges. One of the biggest challenges can be getting started with the day when the bed is just in the next room. To keep employees awake and laser-focused, provide them with a branded coffee mug. Even employees who don’t drink coffee can appreciate a nicely designed mug as a desk ornament, tea mug, or soup mug.
Drink Bottles
Drink bottles are something that everyone can use. Bottled water is terrible for the environment and racks up unnecessary spending on the grocery bill. Keep employees hydrated by giving them a personalised drinking bottle.
This can be a plastic water bottle or it can be a metal thermos for hot/cold liquids. They even have smart drink bottles which can be customised and that display the temperature of the liquid contents on the outside of the bottle