Joggers for Offices, Ordered Properly
By The Velocity Wear Team
Branded joggers work in an office context as onboarding kit and as a gift, not as a dress code item. They start at $22 a pair at the fifty-piece minimum, which covers a year of new starters for most mid-sized firms. The thing that decides whether they get worn is fit, and fit is the thing an employer has least information about.
Are joggers appropriate for an office at all?
As something people take home, yes. As something people wear at a desk, that depends on a culture question nobody at a supplier can answer for you. The firms that get the most out of them are the ones with hybrid teams, where the kit is worn on working-from-home days and on the commute rather than in a meeting. The wholesale joggers page lists the options, and the corporate pages cover how a programme is usually built.
Where a firm genuinely wants an office-appropriate branded garment, a polo or a knitted top does that job better. Joggers are the piece that makes a welcome box feel like a gift rather than a compliance exercise.
What goes into an onboarding kit?
A jogger, a top, and one small item that does not need sizing. The sizing-free item matters more than it sounds, because it is what the box has in it if the new starter's size is out of stock. Most firms settle on a hooded top and jogger with a cap or a bottle alongside.
Keep the branding restrained. A discreet hip mark survives the transition from welcome gift to garment somebody actually chooses to wear; a logo down the full length of the leg does not. Corporate gifting: apparel that does not go straight to the charity shop makes the case for that restraint better than a supplier arguing it.
How do you avoid re-sizing every new starter?
Order the curve once, deep, and hold stock. Fifty pieces at the minimum split across a realistic size spread gives a year or more of welcome boxes without another production run, and sizes mix freely inside that fifty. Ask for a size on the offer letter rather than after the start date, so the box is ready on day one.
- Weight the middle of the curve heavily; the extremes go slowest and tie up the most stock.
- Keep one design and one colourway, because each design carries its own fifty-piece minimum.
- Track what you issue, so the reorder is based on what actually went out rather than on the original guess.
- Reorder before you run out of the common sizes, allowing 10 to 15 working days of production plus transit.
What does the budget look like?
At fifty pieces the from-price is $22 a pair, and the tiers step at 100, 250, 500 and 1,000, reaching up to 35% off the fifty-piece price. A firm hiring steadily should price the larger tier, because the per-head saving on a two-year stock holding usually beats the cost of the shelf space. We invoice in seven currencies, which matters for a company running one programme across several markets.
If the joggers sit inside a wider apparel programme, plan the whole thing once rather than piece by piece — building a corporate apparel program that does not get messy covers the governance side, which is where most office kit schemes come apart.
