--00000000000080767f05d116c7c9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Timothy! The CG and Internal Ops holiday budget is here!! We are not encouraging full group parties given the continued risks of COVID-19 and the prime prerogative of keeping our clients and caregivers safe. That said, offices and teams are welcome to host, as many have in the past, multi-day open houses in which smaller numbers of caregivers and clients are welcomed to come in and celebrate and share seasons greetings with the team. We do remind everyone to be aware of protocols around safety in these situations. There are two components to our holiday budget for this year. One is a gift pool for our caregivers actively working. This is determined by taking the total count of caregivers who received a paid shift in October of this year. *Your budget for Caregivers is $5250 *. If you have a more accurate number available, we can replace the estimate with the actual. The gift pool was lined up at a total of $35/caregiver, to create a total office budget. So, for instance, if your office had 100 active working caregivers, the pool would be $3500. As in years past, the team has discretion over how that money is allocated to caregivers in terms of gifts, gift cards, raffles --- AND --- how we distribute it (e.g. bigger gifts but only for caregivers who come in, size the gifts differently based on tenure or loyalty, same for everyone, etc.). Please use your corporate credit card for the acquiring of the caregiver gifts, so that finance can easily keep track of it. The second is a team dinner pool for each of our offices to enjoy a holiday meal together. The budget will be $50 / per attendee. Further, in years past it has been customary for HCA to provide a branded holiday gift to our teams. This year, with our upcoming introduction of TheKey in early 2022, we are deferring the HCA gift until the launch of TheKey, so that we can get some great things in the hands of our teams (and caregivers!) with the new brand and colors. Finally, in the past, we had also allocated a budget for client gifts, and some of you will notice that aspect is not included this year. Within our spending target, the decision was made to prioritize the caregiver gift pool. Again, this decision was made with consideration of the upcoming brand update a few months after the holidays, where we are prioritizing making the strongest impression with our clients. Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks -- *Audra N. Williams BHA, LPN* *Director of Business Support*Home Care Assistance Direct: 425-757-7027 1025 108th Ave. NE Bellevue, WA 98004 homecareassistance.com --- Read Our Testimonials Join Our Newsletter We Are Hiring! *Champions of Aging Well*[image: image.png] --00000000000080767f05d116c7c9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Timoth= y! The CG and Internal Ops= holiday budget is here!!=C2=A0=C2=A0 We are not encouraging full group parties g