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Skip the Gift, Give the Experience

Set yourself apart by providing something they can't get anywhere else.

By Laura Mazzuca Toops | Updated on December 04, 2013

Did you “celebrate” Black Monday this week? If so, you have plenty of company; a CareerBuilder survey estimates that 54% of U.S. workers will spend time online at work shopping for the holidays. The practice has become so entrenched in our society that more than half of employers are OK with it, and only 29% of firms block access to online shopping sites, according to a CIO survey by Robert Half Technology.

As a former eBay addict, Zappos freak and Amazon junkie, I can attest to the joys of online shopping–especially for the, shall we say, “eclectic” people on my gift list. Where else but online can you find gifts featuring the Walking Dead, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and “Manos: The Hands of Fate” to warm the hearts of the freaks and geeks in my life?

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