It was clear early on that Glede is a sustainable, flexible solution. Supporting companies like this matters to us.
EY is a global advisory firm with more than 2,000 employees in Norway. They help clients across audit, strategy, legal and a long list of other consulting services.
Every year, EY hires hundreds of bright graduates from universities around the world. The team wants every future colleague to have the best possible experience leading up to their start date. In the past, that has included physical gifts and postcards around Easter — a small touch that helps build a closer relationship with students before day one.
Marie Øglænd and Linn Sara Furu work in recruitment at EY. They sum up the challenges with the old approach:
- Wrong addresses: "Students change addresses constantly — new study cities, exchange semesters. A lot of gifts came right back to us."
- Not very sustainable: "Sustainability is a big focus for us, and physical gifts didn’t exactly fit. We knew we could do better."
- Time-consuming: "We were spending more time on this than we needed to."
Sustainability is at the heart of how EY operates, and it’s what drew them to Glede in the first place.
“It was clear early on that Glede is a sustainable, flexible solution. It’s digital, and it lets recipients support local businesses wherever they are in the world. Supporting companies like this matters to us,” say Marie and Linn.
A flexible, efficient solution
When Marie and Linn went to send the gifts, several features in the Glede platform stood out:
- Branding: “We could send the exam-week greeting with our own gift card design, logo and brand colours.”
- File upload: “We uploaded an Excel file with all the recipients in one go. Hugely practical when you’re sending to a lot of people at once.”
- Direct delivery via SMS and email: “Sending by SMS and email saved us all the time and hassle of packing and shipping. It also meant every gift actually arrived.”
- Ease of use: “Glede is efficient and easy to use, both for the sender and the recipient.”
They estimate Glede has cut the recruitment team’s gift-sending time by more than half.
We saved a lot of time — both on the prep beforehand and on the send itself. It made the whole job significantly easier.
Easy for students to use
"We’ve had incredibly positive feedback from the students. Many told us the gift card was easy to use," they say.
Marie sees Glede as a useful tool for EY going forward — and not just for recruitment.
“We’d definitely use Glede again as part of onboarding for new hires — say, as a Christmas greeting. We’re also looking at it for internal gifts, both for big moments and small ones.”
Glede is an efficient way to send sustainable gifts. Perfect for companies that want to send something thoughtful to a larger group, with easy delivery and a gift everyone will actually use.
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