There is a sharing case too. If you are the one organising the team's festive spread, a larger box of wrapped pieces is easier to manage than anything that needs cutting or plating. People help themselves, the box stays tidy, and there is no waste from a half-eaten centrepiece at the end of the day.

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The first argument is simply that chocolate lasts. Flowers are beautiful for a few days and then gone. A boxed selection stays, gets shared, and gives the pleasure of choosing across an evening rather than being admired once and then wilting on the windowsill. For a gift meant to say something, lasting a little longer is no bad thing.

The office at Christmas is a difficult room to buy for. There are people you know well and people you have only met by email, dietary preferences you are not across, and a Secret Santa budget that does not stretch far. Individually wrapped chocolates answer most of that in one go.

Ordering for a workplace rewards a little lead time. Buy the box in the last week of November or the first of December, keep it somewhere cool, and you have a festive gift ready for whichever day the team is finally all in together.

The third thing is the address and the message. A gift sent to a workplace needs to arrive on a day the recipient is in. A gift to a home is safer if someone is likely to be there, though a boxed selection left in a porch will come to no harm in cold weather. Adding a written message at the point of ordering means the gift arrives ready to give rather than needing a separate card.