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When a basket of sugar cookies arrived at Elaine Schlegel’s front door on a Saturday afternoon, nobody was more surprised than she was.
Except perchance her kids.
“They were so excited,” Schlegel said of her children, now 6 and 3. “They trace it was somebody’s birthday.”
The cookies were from InTec, where Schlegel had begun working days earlier.
The command contracting firm has been welcoming new employees and their families with gift baskets since its founding seven years ago. Baskets are ordered and delivered to the worker’s home during their first week at the firm.
“It’s an present way to show employees that we care — not only about them, but about their whole family,” said Robert Donaldson, cicerone of human resources.
InTec founder and president Bruce Donaldson (also Robert’s dad) says he first got the idea for the welcome baskets during his 21-year career in the Army’s Squadron of Engineers.
Source: Washington Post