The Omicron variant has injected uncertainty into whether corporate holiday party plans proceed, with some moving forward but others revising plans
to the sometimes-corny corporate tradition last year. This year, in a survey of 182 human resources executives, 27% said their companies would hold in-person events, up from 5% in 2020, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., an outplacement firm.
“They’re playing it safe, keeping them a little bit smaller,” said Doug Quattrini, director of sales at Feastivities Events in Philadelphia. His company is producing events with an attendant assembling plates of food for guests, or ones where guests pick up premade packages of party nibbles instead of ones with communal guacamole stations.
“They were very generous and came up with a great option,” said Coco Bassi, strategic programs director for SAP’s Midwest region, who is using her $100 to splurge on “a nice bougie dinner” at home of saffron risotto with seared scallops and octopus. Quantum Metric Inc., a product design company based in Colorado Springs, Colo., is holding a virtual holiday party, as it did last year, but employees in hubs in Colorado Springs, Bethesda, Md., Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and London can also attend small gatherings in person, said chief marketing officer Efrat Ravid.
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