PODCAST | Should you have a 2021 Christmas party?

With the release of the John Lewis Christmas advert heralding an early start to the 2021 festive season, many HR departments are likely thinking about the traditional workplace end-of-year celebration: the office Christmas party.

Although these parties did not take place last year – for obvious Covid-related reasons – for some, this wasn’t a bad thing; as they got to escape shenanigans they’d rather not be part of.

It is these types of Christmas party-related issues that Dan Cave, Head of Content at Executive Grapevine Digital Media and Michael Harper, Senior Account Manager at Blackhawk Network, talk about on this episode, looking at if there are alternative ways to reward staff during Christmas, outside of the traditional ‘knees-up’, exploring if, as with everything else that the pandemic has forced active rethinking around, you could do Christmas a different way.