Best Practices for Tipping During COVID.

• Position: GRATUITIES

The COVID-19 pandemic will impact U.S. tipping customs this holiday season, so gratuities will look different in 2020. Who do you tip? How much? What are best practices for tipping during a pandemic?

Sharon Schweitzer--an international etiquette specialist, author, and founder of Access to Culture--offers the following recommendations:

Budget first. Calculate how much you are willing and able to spend. Remember, holiday tipping is not an obligation.

Prioritize. Make a list of who you wish to tip. placing those who help most frequently at the top. Keep in mind local and regional customs, service quality and frequency, and relationship length.

Avoid cash. Instead, use contactless apps to pay holiday tips or bonuses

Monetary alternatives. Medicai specialists advise that 2020 is not the year for homemade goods Consider a heartfelt card retail or pre-packaged holiday...