Christmas Gifts for Colleagues

The best Christmas gifts for colleagues are a photo mug of the team, Our Year in Pictures on a canvas for the office, or a Printerpix photo book of the year's projects. Our Year in Pictures arranges the year's photos as a grid around a big year number. A mug keeps it at desk level.

A mug or photo book from moments you shared at work is personal enough for most colleagues. Keep it to a team photo for someone you hardly know, one canvas for the whole team, a gift from everyone for a manager, and the finished project for a client. Save the private jokes for people who were there when they started.

Staff Christmas gifts from a manager can be a mug for each person, with the same team photo and their own name added. A canvas of the whole department, with a thank-you line from you underneath, can hang where everyone sees it. Presents for staff land well when each person can spot themselves in the picture.

A canvas of the team at the charity run, with a line from all of you, is a safe Christmas gift for your boss, given on behalf of the whole floor. Keep it shared rather than personal, so nobody is seen to curry favour. For a manager moving on in the new year, From All of Us gathers the team into a collage with a farewell message.

A photo book of the project you delivered together, from the first site visit to the finished job, makes a corporate Christmas gift for clients. A canvas of the building, the launch or the shop opening suits a customer who was part of it. Printerpix prints these from your company's own photos.

We'll Miss You is a leaving present for a colleague: the team's photos in one collage, a message below, on a canvas, blanket or framed print. Ask everyone for a photo early, before people scatter for the break. Officially Retired, on a mug or cushion, covers a work colleague who is retiring at Christmas.

A Printerpix jigsaw of the department is a team Christmas gift everyone can chip in for. Or choose Things We Love About Your Colleague, made only of words from the team, on a canvas, when nobody has a decent photo. Collect a few lines from the team by message so it stays a surprise.

A mug or canvas from the whole team is a different thing from Secret Santa, where each person buys one small present for a name drawn at random. For the draw itself, our Secret Santa gifts page has the funny ideas. Year-round office ideas are on our gifts for colleagues page, and our Christmas gifts page carries the main range.