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Earlier this year, the digital-marketing firm Kepler Group emailed its nearly 500 U.S. and Canada-based employees explaining they are moving from team-based birthday celebrations to monthly officewide in-person ones. (The handful of remote employees are acknowledged in a channel on Slack.) The company also addressed the other big birthday-party divide: Some like them, others don’t. So to be included in the list of birthdays, people must opt in. More than half did.
Before this, the celebrations could get lopsided. Some teams brought in desserts and decorated the person’s desk, for instance, while others didn’t do anything, says Jane Camp, Kepler Group’s chief of staff. Holding a companywide monthly celebration establishes a baseline to ensure everyone feels the love—if they opt in, of course.
Carolyn Frey, chief people officer at the grocery-delivery service Hungryroot, recalls her previous job where individual teams decided how to celebrate birthdays. That left some employees jealous that other teams held more-extravagant celebrations.
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