{"id":20,"date":"2008-10-21T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T08:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/inexpensive-christmas\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:29:22","slug":"inexpensive-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/inexpensive-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Christmas Party on a Shoe String"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lot of companies will have had to cut back on those Xmas extras this year, but you can still have a Credit Crunch Christmas Celebration. The swanky champagne reception from last year may indeed be a thing of the past, but it doesn’t have to be a Scrooge like lump of coal either. It’s important for both team building and office morale to have little celebration, to relax and enjoy a bit of the Christmas spirit together.<\/p>\n

So you can’t book the ballroom at a big hotel this year, but you can find out about pubs or bars with event rooms, some don’t charge a hire fee, just a minimum spend at the bar. A restaurant meal is also a nice idea; many do a set Xmas menu that is quite reasonable. Secret Santa can be fun, where everyone chooses a name from a hat and buys that person a present, cap the spend limit at 5 or 10 pounds.<\/p>\n

And look on the bright side, with less money behind the bar, perhaps you won’t have as many bad memories as in previous years, or be suffering from a hangover that lasts till the New Year.<\/p>\n

Further advice on all things Christmassy in the office including office Xmas parties<\/a>, planning an office Christmas party in London<\/a> and company Christmas cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of companies will have had to cut back on those Xmas extras this year, but you can still have a Credit Crunch Christmas Celebration. The swanky champagne reception from last year may indeed be a thing of the past, but it doesn’t have to be a Scrooge like lump of coal either. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,8],"tags":[53,51,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonofficespace.com\/buzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}