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Read our latest blogs on everything gifting, employee recognition, and just making workplaces better.
We made the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list. Here's the story behind it.
May 21, 2026
Huggg has been named in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026. The honest story of how a coffee gifting app became one of the UK's best workplaces.
Someone just went above and beyond: why to thank them immediately
September 8, 2026
A manager watches somebody save a shift, a launch or a customer, and the only levers on offer are a bonus in six weeks or a line in the next all-hands. Here is how to say thank you today, and where the UK tax rules actually bite.
Best employee benefits for small UK businesses in 2026
September 7, 2026
An honest shortlist of the benefits a small UK employer can actually afford and keep running, and a straight answer on where gifting fits and where it doesn't.
The £150 party allowance or a gift for everyone: which one actually lands?
September 4, 2026
The £150 staff party allowance and the £50 trivial benefit are separate exemptions, so December isn't a choice between them. The real question is who your spend actually reaches.
How to keep staff gifts off your P11D before benefits move to payroll
September 3, 2026
Benefits in kind start moving onto the payroll from April 2027. Most staff gifts should never reach a P11D at all, so here is how to keep them out of scope and prove it.
How to set up automated milestone gifting (birthdays, anniversaries and service awards)
September 2, 2026
A practical setup guide for automated milestone gifting: which dates to automate, how to get the date source right, who the gift should come from, and how to build in a human override.
Retail and hospitality has a recognition problem: 43% of its workers aren't motivated
September 1, 2026
43% of retail and hospitality workers feel demotivated, against 24% of everyone else we surveyed. New Huggg research on where the recognition gap is felt hardest, and why.
Best tax-free employee gift ideas under the £50 rule in 2026
August 31, 2026
Every list of trivial benefits examples says flowers, cake and a turkey at Christmas. Here are seven tax-free employee gift ideas ranked by whether people actually want them.
Long service awards: catalogue schemes vs letting people choose
August 28, 2026
An honest comparison of the two ways to deliver a long service award: a points catalogue, or a budget the person spends where they like. Including where the catalogue genuinely wins.
Work anniversary cards that do more than sit on a desk
August 27, 2026
Most companies spend the budget on the gift and treat the card as packaging. For a workforce spread across sites and shifts, the card is the part worth getting right.