New year diaries and calendars for employees are passe. The president of a recruitment firm recounted how a start-up was thinking of giving its employees pulses as a new year gift, but later changed the plan suspecting a media leak.
Now, it has gone back to the usual practice of offering company-branded pens and planners for the new year. The HR firm chief joked that this had worked out cheaper, considering the skyrocketing prices of pulses.
