Recently, a business headquartered in VSIP Quang Ngai industrial park organized a Tet program for workers called "Opening Spring - Opening Intelligence" in 2026.
A special point in the program is that the company's leaders decided to donate 5,258 tablets to union members and workers working at the company who have labor contracts signed before September 30, 2025. Each tablet is worth over 3.7 million VND, with a total cost of over 19 billion VND.
This is a practical gift, contributing to supporting online learning and information lookup for union members and children of workers in the digital age.
Called "strange" because if we put this event in a general picture, it can be seen that for many years, the care for workers in enterprises has mainly revolved around salaries, Tet bonuses, essential gifts or immediate difficulty support.
These supports are very necessary, especially for workers with limited incomes. However, the way businesses in Quang Ngai do it shows a different mindset. Instead of just solving short-term needs, they invest in tools to help workers and their children expand their long-term learning opportunities.
Tablets are no longer a luxury item. They are the "gateway" to access digital education, online courses, legal information, vocational skills, and even internal training programs of businesses.
For many worker families, this may be the first learning device to help their children keep up with online learning programs, or to let workers themselves proactively improve their skills in their spare time.
The message "Opening Spring - Opening Intelligence" that businesses choose reflects a shift in the concept of development. Workers are no longer only seen as purely productive forces, but as human capital that needs to be invested in.
When workers have better learning conditions, businesses also benefit from a team of workers who are able to quickly adapt to new technologies, processes and increasingly high market requirements.
On the level of labor relations, which are always sensitive, this way of gratitude also contributes to strengthening trust. Publicizing the criteria for receiving and giving gifts based on clear labor contracts shows transparency and respect for workers.
While in many places there are still disputes, salary debts, and late bonuses, specific actions like this are much more practical than general slogans.
However, for this model to be effective in the long term, further steps are still needed. The handover of equipment is only an initial condition. If accompanied by user manual programs, digital learning support, or connection with skills training courses for workers and their children, the social value of the program will be enhanced. At that time, "enlightenment" is not just a beautiful slogan, but becomes a substantial process.
From the story in Quang Ngai, we can draw an important suggestion for policies to care for workers in the new period. That care is not only for workers to have enough to live on or overcome immediate difficulties, but also for them and their children to have opportunities to develop.
When businesses, trade unions and authorities look at workers through the lens of human development, practical actions such as giving tablets today can become the foundation for a more confident, knowledgeable and more attached workforce to businesses in the future.
