🎅 Organize your Secret Santa with Eurécia! 🎄

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Ho ho ho... 

At Eurécia, at the end of every year, we have a little tradition highly anticipated by our employees (and maybe by you too, by the way?). 

It's the... Secret Santa! The perfect opportunity to share a bit of Christmas magic between colleagues and build connections with a thoughtful gesture. 🎁

And this year, we are organizing it directly on Eurécia!

In this article:

• What is Secret Santa?
• Launching a Secret Santa in my company
• Tracking the organization of my Secret Santa
• Revealing my Secret Colleague
• Our tips for organizing a successful Secret Santa!

What is Secret Santa?

The principle of Secret Santa is a random draw among a group of people (your colleagues in this case). Each employee is the Secret Santa of another employee and will therefore need to give them a little surprise. 🎁

Launching a Secret Santa in my company

Access: Home page > Carte Secret Santa

Did you just discover a new card on your home page? Yes, this year, no more paper draws, you can organize your Secret Santa directly on Eurécia!

This card is only visible to administrators until the Secret Santa is launched.

• Click 'C'est parti !',
• Choose whether my Secret Santa will be organized by:
  • company: the draw will be organized across the whole company.
  • department or structure: in this case, the draw will assign each employee a person from their department or structure.
• Set the registration deadline,
• Set the gift exchange date,
• Detail how the Secret Santa will run,
• Click 'Lancer l'évènement'.

Once the event is launched, your employees will receive a notification alerting them of the event and will see the Secret Santa card appear on their home page. They can then decide whether to participate or not and even give some indications about their preferences to help their Secret Santa.

Tracking the organization of my Secret Santa

Once your Secret Santa is launched, you can track and modify it from the Secret Santa card by clicking the three dots.

You can:

• Modify the organization of your event,
• Create a Vie de Bureau post to announce the event,
• Send a reminder to employees to encourage them to register,
• Export the list of participants to reveal all the secrets of the draw,
• Launch the draw so that everyone discovers who they need to give a gift to: 

Once the registration date has passed, you can launch the draw. Each registered employee will receive directly on Eurécia the name of the person to whom they must give a small gift.

• Close the event when everything is finished. 

Revealing my Secret Colleague

Each employee will be able to reveal (with complete discretion) their Secret Colleague to whom they must give a gift simply by clicking 'Dévoiler mon Secret Collègue'.

If the drawn employee has indicated their preferences, they will be specified in 'Ses gouts' and once the gift is ready, simply click 'Mon cadeau est prêt'!

Our tips for organizing a successful Secret Santa!

Do not force participation in the Secret Santa

Yes, at the risk of surprising you, some people are allergic to the end-of-year holidays, while for others, the idea of giving a gift and missing the mark gives them terrible anxiety. In short, not everyone sets up their Christmas tree on December 1st with “All I Want For Christmas is Yooooouuuu” playing in the background. 🎄

So rule number 1 for organizing a good Secret Santa is to leave participation optional for everyone.

Set a maximum amount for the gift

Exchanging gifts between colleagues is a great idea to strengthen bonds, but the goal is not to blow the budget. As the Secret Santa organizer in your company, we recommend setting a budget between 5 and 10 euros. In addition to being affordable, it also gets your colleagues' imaginations working.

You can also, if you wish, guide gift ideas to align with your company's values. For example: something local, handmade, or made in France. 

Choose the distribution day wisely

Neither too early nor too late! Because year-end holidays mean vacations. Set a distribution date that allows your employees to give their surprise before leaving on leave for the holidays.

Our tip for organizing the distribution well: designate a contact person or contact persons (usually the Secret Santa organizer) to collect gifts before the distribution day. They will be responsible for placing each surprise on the employees' desks.

Tell your colleagues to clearly write the name of their Secret Santa recipient on the gift to facilitate distribution. 😉

🎄🎅 The entire Eurécia team wishes you wonderful and happy end-of-year holidays! 🎅🎄

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