Office Parties?

There are so many rea­sons why you shouldn’t have a New Years bash in the office and part of this comes from expe­ri­ence from the Christ­mas party and part of this is really just very obvious.

Rea­sons why you should rethink where you have the party?

Drink

Some­thing that never seems to mix in the office is booze. Although it can be a great idea to have a cou­ple of drinks in the office around the fes­tive sea­son I wouldn’t rec­om­mend going too far. Now that I think about it, I would really sug­gest hav­ing a few drinks with work­ers over the hol­i­day sea­son because it just makes things more laid back.

Insurance

It had to be men­tioned I’m afraid and although the insur­ance will cover many things that may be dam­aged from drink, fights and other things I am sure that not all office insur­ance poli­cies will be happy to fork out hun­dreds and pos­si­bly thou­sands of pounds because the employ­ees have been careless.

On top of this I will also say that a lot of small busi­ness insur­ance will not even cover you if you spill cer­tain drinks like beer and wine over com­put­ers because those types of drinks are not gen­er­ally accept­able in the work environment.

Per­sonal Experience

This year we had our annual Christ­mas party here, well at least part of it, and it turned out noth­ing got bro­ken but I think we were lucky and mov­ing on to the pub was a good idea. There were drinks com­ing around from all over the place and I do not think that the bowl­ing alley beers we had pre­vi­ously helped us at all.

I will say again that if you are hav­ing a game of pool or play­ing poker there is no rea­son why you can­not have a few drinks along with it as long as you do not go too far. When you think about it, the only time in which the prob­lems seem to occur is when peo­ple take things too far.

Other Suggestions?

Other than stay­ing in the office there are actu­ally many options out there to choose from. You could per­haps go for a paid trip to a restau­rant and hit the clubs and all of the employ­ees would hap­pily go out if they know their food is paid for. Some­thing like this is really great as you get to see peo­ple for who they really are, a cou­ple of drinks is all it takes really. I wouldn’t say that they should use this infor­ma­tion against you in the office but to help you push for­ward in the company.

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