How2Day: Nice Office Gifts

Follow office policy or other gift giving guidelines when selecting a gift for co-workers or your boss. Selecting something that everyone can enjoy is usually a safe bet. More expensive personal gifts should be given to individual co-workers outside of work. Giving gifts at the office can be as hazardous as drinking too much spiked eggnog at the holiday party, writes author Susan Adams in a Dec. 9, 2009, Forbes online article on office gift giving.

Doug Arms, the chief talent officer for Ajilon Professional Staffing based in Tampa, Fla., suggests that workers who cannot resist the impulse to give some kind of gift to office staff should consider homemade holiday cookies, or gingerbread men. Other homemade items include Christmas snack mixes or candies like fudge and peanut brittle. You could place items on decorative holiday trays or in holiday tins. Make or purchase sugarless cookies or candy for co-workers with diabetes or who are dieting.

Putting together individual gift baskets for co-workers is another idea. For a colleague who likes hot tea, you could create a basket filled with a variety of single cup tea bags, flavored or standard creamers, shortbread cookies, and other items that go together. You can find different basket styles and sizes at second stores, rummage sales, and craft fairs. Gift baskets can be filled with fresh fruit and nuts, different types of coffees, lattes, and cocoa mixes.

Monogrammed stationary is always a welcomed gift. Consider items like personalized pens or a nice planner-organizer to with it.

Desk accessories such as photograph frames, an embossed name plate, pen or pencil holders, crystal inkwells, and other similar gifts are nice additions to any co-worker or bosses desk. embarrassed.

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