Is a Christmas package mandatory?

No, there's no legal requirement to give a Christmas package. It may be set out in a collective labour agreement or your organisation's own terms of employment, so that's the first thing to check. If nothing is set out, you're free to choose what you give and in what form.

What's a good budget per employee?

There's no benchmark figure that applies everywhere, as it varies a lot by sector and company size. It helps to set the total budget first and divide it by the number of staff, then choose the format. With a gift card you don't need to hunt for an amount that happens to match a package price.

How does the work-related costs scheme apply to a Christmas gift?

End-of-year gifts are often given from the free allowance of the work-related costs scheme, but whether that applies in your case and up to what amount depends on your own free allowance. Check this with your finance team or tax adviser.

Do I choose a package or a gift card?

A package is tangible and easy to brand, a gift card gets used more often because the recipient chooses. The combination works best in practice: a gift package with a Choice Gift Card inside, wrapped festively. Browse the range on the Christmas packages page.

When do you hand out the end-of-year gift?

Most organisations choose the last working week before the Christmas break, often paired with drinks or a shared moment. Working with home delivery? Choose a delivery date a week earlier so everyone has it on time. Order well before December, as that's the busiest period of the year.

What do we do about colleagues abroad?

Sending a physical package abroad is expensive and slow. For international colleagues, send a digital gift card, or order one that suits the destination country, redeemable in more than 21 countries. Read more on the International page.

Occasions

Christmas packages

The classic Christmas package too often ends up at the back of the cupboard. Not because there's nothing in it, but because the contents don't suit half your team. With a gift card as the base, everyone chooses for themselves, within the budget you set.

Festively wrapped end-of-year gifts with a gift card on a table

Three routes

Three ways to give it

Just the gift card

Everyone chooses for themselves, within the budget you set.

A package with the gift card inside

Something tangible on the table and a gift card to choose with.

The classic package

Assembled and festively wrapped, delivered to the office or home.

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More about Christmas packages with Cadeauservice

An alternative to the Christmas package

Criticism of the Christmas package is rarely about quality and almost always about fit. In a team of fifty, one assembled package never lands for everyone: one doesn't drink, another doesn't eat meat, and a third still has last year's olive oil sitting in the cupboard. A Choice Gift Card as an end-of-year gift shifts that choice to the recipient. You set the budget, and they exchange the gift card at more than 250 gift cards from shops, webshops, restaurants and experiences.

Budget, admin and the tax side

End-of-year gifts always raise two questions: what should it cost and how do we process it. The first is solved by dividing the total budget by the number of staff and putting that amount on each gift card, with no need to hunt for a package that happens to match that price. For the second, the portal holds an overview of every order and activation, with a PO reference and cost centre you add at checkout.

Delivered where your team is

An end-of-year gift that sits in the office while half the team works from home misses its point. One order can go straight to every home address, with a personal message per recipient. The square 200 × 200 × 20 mm gift package fits through a letterbox, so no one has to stay home for a courier. Want to review the range first? Register for free and browse the gift cards and packaging in the portal.

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions about christmas packages

The platform

How Cadeauservice works

You keep blank gift cards at the office and load a value onto one yourself whenever you need it, without waiting for a delivery.

Activate it yourself
An amount that fits the moment — the gift card can go out the same day.
Order gift cards with value
One large order, loaded by us with the value you choose.
Personalise with your logo
Nine gift cards can be printed in your house style by our design team.
To multiple addresses
One order, straight to every recipient, at the office or at home.

Christmas packages