Day One Kits · Employee Onboarding · Costa Mesa, CA
Employee onboarding gifts
that make day one feel planned
A curated edit of our Signature Collection for new hires and relocations, shipped to the new hire's home before they start — recognition that lands, not logo swag they toss. Orders from 12 boxes, boxes from $72, 72-hour prep on non-branded orders, and we ship each kit to the new hire's home, a batch at a time as you grow.
Why it works
The first 30 days decide whether
a new hire stays
Employees who get a strong onboarding tend to stay longer. Teams with the lowest early turnover tend to do something specific on day one that the others don't — they make the new person feel genuinely expected. A hand-packed kit at their door does that in a way no onboarding doc can. The point isn't the stuff. It's the signal.
Running several start dates a month? The welcome kits for people-ops teams page walks through batching the month, collecting home addresses and flagging allergies before a kit is built.
Where teams use it
From first day to every milestone after
Ships before day one
Ordered ahead, it ships to the new hire's home so it arrives before they do. The effect on first-day enthusiasm is noticeably different from a box on the desk.
Remote & hybrid teams
When there's no office to walk into, the kit is the welcome. A real, hand-packed box does what a Slack message can't — it makes a remote start feel like joining something.
Recognition, not swag
People don't keep the logo water bottle. They keep the gesture that says the company was glad they came. We curate for the feeling, not the merch table.
Appreciation & milestones
Work anniversaries, promotions, big launches — the same care that makes onboarding land works for keeping good people. One vendor, every recognition moment.
The Day One edit
Signature boxes, chosen for a first day
Signature Collection
Analog Night
From $72
- Shipping quoted separately
- Custom branding quoted separately
One evening with the screens off — popcorn, pretzels, something fizzy and a game on the table.
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Signature Collection · Featured
The Fresh Start
From $75
- Shipping quoted separately
- Custom branding quoted separately
A fresh, practical collection for new beginnings, new homes, and thoughtful everyday care.
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Signature Collection
New Home Pantry
From $101
- Shipping quoted separately
- Custom branding quoted separately
The first proper dinner in a new kitchen — pasta, sauce, good olive oil crackers and hand soap by the sink.
Request PricingShip to each hire's home or the office, from 12 boxes an order. A personalized card is in every box. Shipping and custom production are quoted based on quantity, destination, and presentation requirements. Custom and logo-branded boxes start at 100 boxes.
Products shown represent the current curation. If an item becomes unavailable, any proposed substitution will be of equal or greater value and will be confirmed before fulfillment.
Standard, non-branded boxes are prepared within 72 hours. Orders of 50 or more inside our Southern California footprint are hand-delivered free on the day packing completes. Everything else normally ships tracked ground, arriving 1–5 business days after packing. A small local order can often go the same day, hand-delivered free — tell us the date and we confirm in writing first. Custom branded programs add 7–14 business days of production before packing begins, confirmed in your quote.
Get started
Tell us about your team
Request onboarding-kit pricing
A line about your hiring and we'll reply with ideas and pricing. Orders start at 12 boxes, so send us a batch of hires at a time as you grow.
Employee onboarding kits — questions
What should be in a new-hire onboarding kit?
The best onboarding kits feel like recognition, not branded merch. Day One Kits is a curated edit of Pacific Gift Box Co.'s Signature Collection for new hires and relocations — Analog Night from $72 · The Fresh Start from $75 · New Home Pantry from $101 — hand-packed in Costa Mesa, CA, with a personalized card in every box. Orders start at 12 boxes. Custom and logo-branded boxes start at 100 boxes.
Can you ship onboarding boxes to employees' homes?
Yes. We ship tracked ground directly to each new hire's home address — ideal for remote and hybrid teams. Non-branded boxes are packed within 72 hours and arrive 1–5 business days after packing, so give us the start date and we'll tell you when to order. Hand the list off and we take it from there.
Do you handle recurring onboarding for a growing team?
Yes. Orders start at 12 boxes, so a growing team orders kits in batches and we ship each one tracked to the new hire's home — 72-hour prep on non-branded boxes. Text (657) 312-4750 or request pricing online.
Is a new hire kit better than company swag?
Swag gets handed out; a kit gets opened. The difference is curation — a small number of things chosen because someone starting a job would actually want them, rather than a logo applied to whatever was cheapest per unit. That is the whole reason the box outlives the first week.
We broke down what goes into a new hire kit that doesn't read as swag.
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