Every September it's the same story: the office manager opens the gift-basket catalogs, the prices look alike, the contents look alike, and everyone knows exactly what will happen — the wine gets drunk, the jams get lost in a cupboard, and the basket goes to recycling. The holiday gift is an opportunity most organizations miss: the one moment in the year when the company says thank you personally.
The problem with a gift that gets consumed
A gift that is eaten or drunk disappears — and the memory of the gesture disappears with it. Research on corporate gifting is consistent: employees remember gifts that stay in their environment, not ones that get consumed. An object that lives in an employee's home keeps "working" for months and years after the holiday.
This is exactly where art comes in: a piece hanging in an employee's living room is a daily reminder that the company sees them — not at the gift-basket level, at the home level.
Who it's right for — and the numbers
Obviously you don't commission an artwork for every employee in an organization of hundreds. The model that works:
- Outstanding employees — an exceptional gift for the small group you want to single out
- Round-number anniversaries — a decade with the company deserves more than a cheese platter
- Key clients and partners — instead of another predictable bottle of whiskey
- Senior executives — the gift for the person who already has everything
A commission at walll.art starts at ₪1,500 per artwork — a fixed, pre-agreed price for an original work by an Israeli artist; gallery-grade printing, framing, and delivery to the door are chosen and priced separately, from a visible price list. Every order comes with a tax invoice, and employee gifts are a recognized expense within the usual limits (check the caps with your accounting team).
The answer to the taste question: a gift brief
The understandable worry: how do you know what the employee will like? You don't need to know. Instead of choosing for them, you give them the commissioning experience itself: they open a brief with a photo of a wall in their own home, describe what they love, receive proposals from several artists — and choose the artwork themselves. The company funds it; they choose.
A standard gift says "happy holidays". An artwork the employee chose for their own home says "you matter to us" — and keeps saying it every morning.
Timing: start now
The commissioning process takes one to three weeks, plus a few days for printing and delivery — meaning a start in late August or early September lands comfortably before the holiday. Anyone starting after the fast of Gedaliah is already racing the clock.
Our suggestion for organizations: pick the five people who most made your year — employees, clients, partners — and give them something this year that no one else will. Next year, when the wine baskets arrive again, yours will still be hanging on the wall.
