Holiday Program Burden Scorecard

What does your holiday program really cost you?Count the hours, not just the budget.

The gift budget is the number leadership sees. The hours your team spends sourcing, shipping, chasing addresses, herding managers, and running the party is the number nobody counts. Answer a few quick questions and we’ll estimate the real time and cost of your holiday program, then show you where to cut both without cutting what employees actually feel.

Takes about a minute. Every figure is an estimate from benchmarked programs.

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Five quick questions

Defaults are fine — adjust what you know.

How many employees does your holiday program cover?

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How do you run holiday gifts today?

Where do your people work?

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What does your holiday program involve?

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How many people help run it?

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Gift budget per employee for the season

What you plan to spend per person on gifts this holiday season

Your holiday burden scorecard

Time first

About — hours this season

Roughly $— in time and overrun.

Estimated from typical programs your size. Your real numbers may differ.

Where the time goes

HR teams spend up to 40% of their time on manual, repeatable tasks. The holiday season concentrates a year’s worth of that into a few weeks. Source: McKinsey

How to cut this

Ranked by hours saved. Some of these are process changes you can make on your own. Some need a platform. We say which is which.

Together, these could reclaim about — hours and $— this season.

Most of that is time your team gets back, not budget you spend. Estimated from typical programs your size.

See how Inspirus handles the logistics so your team runs the season instead of the spreadsheet.

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Sources and assumptions

Total manual holiday program load of 40 to 80 hours per season for about 500 employees. Source: BirdieBox Corporate Gifting Guide, 2026.
Smaller or partly tooled holiday logistics of 8 to 15 hours. Source: RewardBuilder, 2026.
Cost overruns from fees, shipping, and spoilage of 10 to 35% of program budget. Source: RewardBuilder, 2026.
Address collection takes about three weeks of elapsed coordination, and 10 to 15% of a remote list is stale each year. Source: Givenly, 2026.
Automation reduces recognition admin workload by about 33% and saves more than 7 hours per week per person on manual tasks. Source: SHRM.
HR teams spend up to 40% of their time on manual, repeatable tasks. Source: McKinsey.
Loaded HR hourly rate of $45; default per-head gift value of $60 (placeholders pending Inspirus confirmation).