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My big company stopped sending swag/care packages to employees shortly before they started pressuring everyone on RTO. Before that RTO campaign there was a lot of language shared about employee satisfaction and "taking care of each other", etc.

They also acknowledge the employee NPS score has gone down but have used a lot of corporate speak to "speak to" that score without initiating any responses to it. I'm pretty sure they, and probably like many others, think the lower ENPS scores and RTO are the only correlation for employee attitudes right now.

So no, the care packages aren't really important, but they're usually commensurate with other endeavors from the top that may not sit well. As another example, the company has done nothing to acknowledge nor address rising attrition... which started before the economy turned (I fully acknowledge they may be happy with it). But the attrition -- even welcomed -- usually has a negative impact on morale overall.