Unique Employee Rewards

Keeping Your Employees Happy Benefits Your Bottom Line

Without employees, your company would struggle and eventually fail. Even the smallest company requires some help launching a Web site, handling sales calls or doing the accounting. Have you thanked your employees recently?

Studies show that there are a number of things employers can do to make employees happier. Offering leniency for appointments, removing strict dress codes and surprising employees with permission to leave an hour earlier work wonders in companies where morale becomes low due to heavy work loads. For those who want to go the extra mile, offering monetary rewards, such as gift certificates, is an amazing way to show your employees that they are important!

Benefits of Gift Certificates and Gift Cards

For one company in Vermont, they understood the mandatory overtime, necessary to catching up on work orders, happened to be burning out employees. Knowing they needed to boost morale, the management made the decision to give all of the employees who'd volunteered to work overtime a gift certificate to an area restaurant. The company's workers had no idea it was coming and were shocked when they opened their paychecks and found the certificates inside.

Boosting morale helped get orders completed in record time and the company didn't miss their promised shipment date. Not to mention, the employees had a night out with their significant others and felt appreciated by the bosses they figured only cared about the bottom line. Since launching that program, employees are happier signing overtime knowing they might get rewarded for their efforts.

Using a More Unique Approach

Free Drinks or Ice Cream. Is it summer time? Why not make arrangements with one of the local ice cream vendors to stop by your business just after lunch time and you can treat all of your employees to ice cream. Or, set up a time with a mobile espresso business to stop by and make specialty coffee drinks, blended drinks and other specialties for your employees. You pick up the tab and watch your employees attitudes improve.

If you have room in your company lunch room, why not consider bringing in a foosball table or pool table for your employees to use during their lunch breaks. Make sure you're in there every once in awhile too in order to accept the occasional challenge from one of your employees to a game.

These are just a couple simple, relatively inexpensive ways to boost morale at your company.