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  • Planning Your Year-End Office Party? Here Are Some Cool Ideas

    21 Oct 2019 by Carrie in Alcohol, Food, Frost Popsicles, Lifestyle, Partners
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    While there are plenty of reasons to hold parties throughout the year, summer seems to bring with it even more reasons to get together.

    One event, in particular, is inevitable – the office year-end bash.

    These parties have a reputation for either bringing the office together or going horribly wrong.

    Every year, articles crop up listing the disastrous events that unfold when your once quiet and professional colleague reveals a whole new aspect of their personality after one too many glasses of bubbles.

    This one from last year, recorded for posterity by Business Insider, really stands out:

    “At my office party at my old company, the CEO thought it would be a fun party game to have everyone submit an embarrassing childhood story ahead of time — no one knew why, but we all did it.

    “Then at the party he had them all printed on pieces of paper, and he had people read them aloud and guess whose story it was. It was incredibly awkward and probably the worst work-party game of all time.”

    Not a vibe, and not how you want to be remembered just before you go on leave.

    If you’re smart, you’ll get ahead of any of the “bright ideas” circulating this year. Here are a few tips for making that year-end event something that you and your coworkers will leave with fond memories and minimal embarrassment.

    Ignore the urge to get in one last team-building session

    Everyone has had a rough year and is really looking forward to winding down. Unless you can guarantee that the entire office will be down for a trust-fuelled exercise in zip-lining, keep things simple. This is also not the time for weird party games. No one wants to end the year in a relay race across the office with a balloon between their knees.

    Yes, that’s a real game. No, it shouldn’t be played by adults.

    Down with ‘Secret Santa’

    Firstly, not everyone in your office is Christian, so unless you’re putting the same amount of effort into other religious holidays, you shouldn’t be forcing coworkers or employees to participate in Christmas.

    Also, no one ever knows what to get Karen in accounting, and every year she feels terrible that you didn’t put in any effort.

    If you’re insistent on making your employees spend money, then consider picking an organisation or charity, like the Santa Shoebox Initiative, to donate to as an office.

    Take it out of the office

    You’ve been in the office all year. You’ve worked hard in the office. Now it’s time to leave the office behind.

    The holiday season happens in summer, and we’ve all that moment of stepping outside the building to find a beautiful sunny day that we wish we could take advantage of instead of going back to our desks.

    Go on then, have your office party in the sunshine. If you really want to crank it up a notch, swap out the usual (and dangerous) bubbles for Frost Popsicles.

    The range comprises nine popsicles in total – six alcoholic and three non-alcoholic. There’s a classic G&T Popsicle for the gin lovers in the group, the wine-infused Tranquille and Brut PJ Popsicles for the wine drinkers, the Passion Fruit & Peach Margarita Popsicle for the more adventurous, and a range of non-alcoholic popsicles for the teetotallers.

    Frost Popsicles include no artificial ingredients and, with the exception of the Vanilla Coffee Non-Alcoholic Popsicle, the range is dairy-free and vegan-friendly, so there really is something for everyone.

    Also, can we have a moment for all of the boxes that got ticked up there from low-calorie to vegan? Nobody will feel left out and you won’t have to listen to Darren’s monologue about how parties never take his dietary restrictions into account.

    Head on over to the Frost Popsicles website to place an order.

    Put down the devices

    While it might be tempting to film your coworkers in various states of inebriation, just remember that you have to share an office with them for the foreseeable future.

    Capturing Linda’s table-dance after she accidentally mixed wine and allergy medication, and then circulating it, is not going to win you any friends.

    Last, but not least:

    Don’t be kak, be lekker.

    Happy holidays!

    [source:businessinsider]

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