Share The Love at The Office With These Unique Valentine's Day Ideas

Why Celebrate Valentine's Day At Work?

While we should all appreciate hard-working employees every day, having a dedicated day to shower our colleagues and subordinates with tokens of appreciation and good cheer is also essential, and here's why.

If different teams are disconnected from each other, hosting Valentine's-inspired events might bring them closer together despite their differences.

Celebrating Valentine's Day can be hugely motivating for staff, especially employees who might feel they're being overlooked or undervalued on the day-to-day. Appreciating their worth in the company goes a long way.

If work and deadlines have been non-stop lately, a day or hour featuring fun games, silly activities and delicious food and drink will help relax stressed-out employees who could really use the break.

Valentine's Day isn't viewed positively by all, but some cheerful office vibes, chocolate and good times might make the day easier to get through.

The last couple of years haven't been easy, so celebrating days like these are crucial to uplift people.

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Celebrating Valentine's Day can be hugely motivating for staff, especially employees who might feel they're being overlooked or undervalued on the day-to-day.

Thoughtful Valentine’s Day Ideas

Put more thought into Valentine's with these ideas instead of buying chocolate or candy last minute.

A Hearty Breakfast Spread

Every workday should start with an energy-fuelling breakfast, including Valentine's Day.

Organise a hearty breakfast spread that accounts for everyone's food requirements. Remember to also treat remote workers by having a breakfast meal sent to their homes.

Another great Valentine’s Day idea is to ask everybody in the office to contribute toward a breakfast spread, even if it's juice, cutlery or store-bought pastries. This way, people can enjoy a more diverse feast with food that caters specifically to their preferences, dietary needs, budget or culture.

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Every workday should start with an energy-fuelling breakfast, including Valentine's Day.

A Valentine's Decorating Competition

It won't feel like Valentine's Day unless the entire office is covered in pink, white and red, or a rainbow of vibrant colours if that’s what you prefer.

Get your employees involved in getting the office "Valentine's Day ready" by encouraging them to decorate their workspaces - desks, monitors and cubicles - with appropriate streamers, balloons, heart decoration and paraphernalia.

This is also an activity in that remote workers can participate over Zoom. The best-decorated desk or cubicle wins something!

Encourage Random Acts Of Kindness

Showing kindness shouldn't just be reserved for holidays like these, but encouraging small acts of altruism on this day might prompt day-to-day selflessness by your staff in the future.

As the name suggests, random acts of kindness aren't significant, heroic or life-changing events but thoughtful gestures that impact another person's life in small ways. Making your colleague's tea or performing work tasks for them when their plates are full are two of many prime examples of being a good human and coworker.

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Making your colleague's tea or performing work tasks for them when their plates are full are two of many prime examples of being a good human and coworker.

Get Involved With Volunteering

Consider volunteering for the day or an hour or two if your organisation and team would rather give back to the community rather than enjoy chocolate indulgences and roses.

Make a small impact by handing food to the homeless, planting trees or snuggling rescue dogs at shelters.

If you don't have enough time, contribute financially to a charity chosen by your employees.

Start The Day Later or End Early

Push your start time an hour later to allow people to spend valuable quality time with their families or significant others. Otherwise, closing shop early lets people start their celebrations with their loved ones sooner.

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Push your start time an hour later to allow people to spend valuable quality time with their families or significant others.

Have a Casual or Smart Dress Code

If your staff normally wear formal business attire, get them to dress in something casual on this day. Or if you're a "t-shirts, hoodies and sneakers" business, encourage people to dress up in cocktail dresses, chinos and blazers, a suit or whatever smart attire they're comfortable wearing.

Health-Focussed Activities or Workshops

Talking about heart health isn't exactly a romantic discussion to have, but learning about this vital organ could save your life.

Bring in an expert to teach your staff members the importance of keeping one's tickers in tip-top shape (so that it can keep on loving)!

If you can't book a cardiologist, consider other ways you can promote health, happiness and wellness, like organising a yoga class, meditation, lessons on healthy eating. Another way to treat your staff is to hire a corporate masseuse for 15-minute massages.

These are activities that your remote workers can enjoy over video conferencing if they want to loosen up, learn and relax! You can also arrange healing massages for your work-from-home employees so that they can enjoy some RNR from the comfort of their homes.

Host A Happy Hour

Cheeky Valentine's-inspired cocktails or mocktails, anyone? If work policy allows it, liven up with workspace with a fun happy hour.

Bring in a mixologist to whip up chocolate martinis, strawberry daiquiris, jugs of sangria and other delicious alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

Or assign drinks duty to Dave from accounting, who made mean drinks at the last Christmas party.

If your remote workers can't make the occasion, send them drinks evite anyway. They might enjoy bonding with colleagues with a drink in hand and cheers-ing via Zoom!

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Cheeky Valentine's-inspired cocktails or mocktails, anyone?

Secret Cupid Gift Exchange

This is pretty much like Secret Santa, where everyone picks a random name out of a hat and gets a gift for their unsuspecting recipient.

Stick to an agreed-upon price range. That way, people won't go all out or put in too little effort.

Remember to include otherwise located staff members!

Something To Take Home

Whether or not you like Valentine's cliches, nothing beats having delicious chocolate to nosh on and put you in a good mood.

Put together goodie bags for your staff that they can take home with them.

Include heart-shaped candies or biscuits, and maybe a bottle of red wine or rose.

Who knows, by gifting goodie bags to staff, you might just get an employee or two out of the dog box if they've forgotten to give their significant other something special.

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Whether or not you like Valentine's cliches, nothing beats having delicious chocolate to nosh on and put you in a good mood.

Don't Forget To Involve Your Remote Employees

Working from home can be challenging for your employees. Not being around their at-office colleagues might make them feel disconnected or undervalued because they're not part of daily work life.

Don't forget to appreciate those who work from home on this day of appreciation and include them in all of your activities!

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