15 cool gifts that companies presented to their employees for the New Year

They say that the New Year is a time of miracles! Some companies congratulate their employees with unusual postcards and envelopes with the 13th salary, while others are more creative. Among the gifts there are both luxury cars and cute handmade products. To surprise and make people tremble with surprise are things that are now in price. That is why giant companies, and not only, try to congratulate their subordinates in an extraordinary way. Here are some New Year's surprises that employees discover at home.

Who said that ice skating is only possible outside of a stuffy office? Mail.Ru doesn't think so. The company decided to really surprise its employees by giving them a New Year's gift in the form of a skating rink with an area of 325 sq. m. It was built in the company's gym and was called "Nichosi". In addition, the employees were presented with warm and soft vests with symbols Mail.Ru .

As a New Year's gift, employees of the Microsoft giant received a game console called Xbox One. It bore the inscription "I did it." And the creativity of the present is very unusual: these consoles can not be found on sale, because they were released only for employees of the corporation in a limited series.

The owner of the bank made an expensive gift to the employees who work in the institution from the very beginning: a BMW 5-series. There were 8 lucky people. Thus, the owner of Tinkoff Bank thanked them for their dedication to the common cause and for helping him achieve success and prosperity.

B2B-Center is a software development company that does not give cars to employees, but it also approaches the choice of gifts creatively. Once on New Year's Eve, B2B-Center employees received soft slippers with the company's logo. They can be in the office during the working day, because there is no dress code in the organization.

Lingualeo is a website for learning foreign languages in a playful way. Opening the platform, you can see that the company's logo is a lion's paw. Lingualeo usually gave promo codes to all employees for an educational course, but recently everything has changed. Once an employee of Lingualeo tied up 2 lion cubs for the most active users of the site. The management liked them so much that the next year the needlewoman was asked to create products for colleagues for the New Year. And to make the gift not only cute, but also delicious, gingerbread cookies with the company logo were attached to them.

Pixonic, a developer of mobile games, decided to please its employees with warm and sweet presents. He presented them with a funny blanket in the form of a panda, a thermos and sweets. By the way, the plaid has a hood with the image of the animal's head and paws.

The auto giant decided to congratulate its employees on the New Year with an award. This would not be surprising if it were not for its size — 5000 euros. By the way, the number of people who received the award is 2850 people.

The management of the Hilcorp Energy oil refining company generously thanked the subordinates for their work. In total, the company has 1800 employees. Everyone was paid a Christmas bonus. Its amount varied from the number of years worked. The maximum amount of the award was $100,000. And 5 years ago, Hilcorp Energy offered an alternative for the New Year: $ 35,000 for any purpose or $ 50,000 to buy a car.

RGK Group has collected a whole set of 3 items for its employees for the New Year. It includes an inflatable sunbed, which is very convenient for traveling, a mini wallet and a phone case. The latter was made in the original design and had funny inscriptions. According to the management, all these things will be useful to employees on trips, of which they have a huge variety.

Masterbulit, a company engaged in the production of machinery, decided that everyone should ride on the rides for the New Year. To do this, the employees, and there are 100 of them, were given vouchers to visit the Walt Disney World amusement park. One ticket allowed 2 persons to stay in the park for 4 days.

The creators of the famous Cards Against Humanity game decided to thank the people who make it. They presented them with a paid vacation lasting 7 days. However, there was an embarrassment: at the Chinese factory where the game is made, employees do not have vacations. Then the creators had to go to the trick and sign an agreement with the factory management that it would not work for a week.

That year, Yandex employees received warm bright knitted hats for the New Year. A woven label with the words "With warmth, Yandex" was sewn on them. As for the company's employees, they decided to congratulate their most loyal fans by signing 2,000 postcards and sending them by mail to 17 countries.

Previously, this company gave all kinds of gadgets to its employees for the New Year, but this year the gift turned out to be much more creative. It was decided not to spend money on gifts, but to give them to charity. $30 million was allocated for these purposes. This money was used to buy equipment for schools.

BuzzFeed presented its employees with a smartwatch before Christmas. The creativity and value of the present lies in the fact that this accessory has not yet gone on sale. It appeared on the shelves a month after the New Year.

The bus ticket service decided to give up cups, clothes, notebooks with logos, and give its employees models of retro buses. Management believes that in this way it draws a line under past activities and states the peak of the company's development. Now Busfor is not only ticket sales, but also transportation of people by their own buses.