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Reward ideas that actually reach hourly, shift and deskless teams, without a work email, a home address or a whip-round. Built for retail, hospitality, care, warehouse and field workers.

Reward schemes get judged on what goes in, not what gets used, and the gap is where the money disappears. Here's the real cost of rewards nobody claims, and why choice-led recognition lands where a reward scheme doesn't.

The best retirement gift ideas for UK teams in 2026, from the send-off moment to the gift itself, and why the one thing that makes a retirement gift land is letting them choose it.

Work anniversaries, promotions, new babies, house moves. The best gifts to mark a milestone aren't a fixed item everyone gets, because a milestone is personal. Here's how to mark both the work moments and the life ones, and a shortlist that works for either.

The best welcome gifts for new starters feel personal, not branded. Here are the ideas that land, plus how to send one before you even have their address.

Points platforms look generous on paper, but a lot of points never get spent. An honest comparison of points-based rewards and gift-card giving, judged on whether people actually use it.

Mergers and acquisitions reshuffle teams and leave people feeling overlooked. A practical, light-touch way to keep your people feeling valued while the org chart is still moving.

The people behind your next employee gift, in their own words. Meet the independent UK makers on Huggg, and how to send them without collecting a single address.

Skip the generic corporate tat. The independent UK makers worth gifting to your team or clients in 2026, grouped by mood, and how to send any of them without collecting a single address.