[Yoric]

When I was a manager in a start-up, ages ago, I argued the CEO against handing a (small) one-off bonus to one of my team members, and rather went shopping for a nice gift with the same sum. One of them was purely a transaction, the other one was a gift.

I believe that I was right.

[jtokoph]

I was once gifted a $100 bottle of alcohol after a project finished. I don’t drink much booze. I would have rather had the $100.

It very much depends on the gift.

[zippyman55]

We gave out frozen turkeys. Terrible gift if you do not cook.

[vrighter]

at a startup i worked on they gave everyone a ps4, but also the option to exchange it for cash