People Ops Swag
Onboarding, retreats, and the things Swag.com does not tell you.
Best Swag for a Board Offsite: Useful, Quiet, Memorable
Executive offsite swag lives in a narrower band than most merch. Go too cheap and you signal you treated the board like a trade-show crowd. Go too lavish and you look like someone who didn't read the room. The window between "careless" and…
People Ops SwagCustom Moleskine Pocket Notebook and GO Pen Gift Set for New-hire onboarding kits: A Buyer's Take
The Moleskine Pocket Notebook and GO Pen Gift Set is one of the few onboarding items that sits at a defensible price point and still feels like someone at the company thought about it. Budget north of $20 per unit, allow eight to ten…
People Ops SwagInclusive Sizing for Company Apparel
Sizing decisions for company apparel carry more weight than most buyers realize. When someone opens their welcome kit and the shirt doesn't fit, the kit stops being a gesture of inclusion and becomes evidence of the opposite. That's a lot…

How to Plan an Onboarding Kit (Role × Remote × Budget)
The onboarding kit is the new hire's first physical interaction with the company. It sets a tone. The kits that land badly do too much (a 12-item box of branded keychains that says "we have a swag budget") or too little (a generic tee and…
Remote Employee Welcome Kit: The Operational Logistics
The thing nobody warns first-time People Ops folks about is that a remote welcome kit is 80 percent operations and 20 percent product selection. Pick the wrong fulfillment model and a great kit arrives 4 days late. Pick the wrong sizing…
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