Holidays and company culture

Employee appreciation during the holidays

The festive period is the busiest time of the year for a lot of businesses, with many retailers bringing in over 40% of annual profits during the holiday season. It’s also a very busy time for workforce management teams, with over 525K temp staff employed for the holiday period in the US alone.

In this period following mass resignations, particularly in the areas of retail and hospitality, it is important to show support to your staff frequently during this time, so they know that you are aware of their stressors and you are very appreciative of the effort they are putting into their work, when many industries around them are winding down for the year.

It’s always important to end the working year on a high. Close of play is a time to appreciate staff and encourage self reflection, to set goals and reward hard work. The end of the year is about looking to the future, a statement about where the company is and where it wants to be.

Showing this appreciation in a way that can scale across a large or distributed workforce and doesn’t take up huge amounts of time to organize, can be a challenge.

Luckily, by using Digital Assistants on Workplace or Microsoft Teams, it’s easy to create engaging experiences that connect your staff, drive engagement and boost morale during the holiday season.

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Drive company culture, employee engagement and a sense of community with fun activations around the End of the year and Christmas period. Create interactive advent calendars or run a charitable toy drive.

Create fun quizzes and games to drive staff engagement and increase usage of your company communication channels. Run a Secret Santa gift exchange at the end of the year either within teams or across entire companies.

Easily accessed on any device - whether they be office based or frontline employees.

Moneypenny were able to use bots to ensure staff were still able to enjoy their staff Christmas dinners during the pandemic

Charitable activities that have been powered by bots include Promise Auctions and Charity Toy Drives.

Main Benefits

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Retain staff for longer

Increase employee engagement

A more connected community

Create friendships at work

Focus around company initiatives

Faster and better communication

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WW (Weight Watchers), Global

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