Ask HN: Do you celebrate employee anniversary dates at your startup?

2 points by danielle17 15y ago ↗ HN

I work at Twilio, and we have a bunch of employees who are going to reach their first year with the company soon so I've been contemplating some special way to commemorate their anniversaries with the company. Does anyone celebrate this at their startup? What do you do, and what does it mean to you?

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slysf 15y ago ↗

We celebrate their anniversaries with the company at the closest company meeting to that date. There are increasingly cool company shwag presented with the acknowledgment, starting with sweaters and progressing through nice jackets, skateboards, framed photos etc. It feels great to see people still really happy with their job after 4 years and having to earn the nice shwag makes it mean more.

[dead] cancelbubble 15y ago ↗

I say just give them the day off (paid). They can then do whatever they want with that time. Personally, I would want either: cash, time off or a gadget I could really use (I don't really care about team lunches/getaways or swag). Giving them the day off seems like it'd be the easiest.