Pilita Clark: Workers find it hard to concentrate on the job as Christmas looms
This was by no means a UK-only phenomenon. In the US, most employees expected to lose focus at work by December 16th while UK workers lasted until December 18th and Germans followed a day or so later.
The UK’s Jargon PR agency has offered its staff a bonus Christmas shopping day for the past 10 years and Kevin Winfield, an associate director at the firm, says the perk makes even more sense this year. But there is much anecdotal evidence to suggest that, despite a cost-of-living crisis and the lingering Covid threat, this year’s festive period has been even more distracting than others.
More trouble has occurred in Australia, where a TV host revealed last week he had checked himself into a facility to get help for alcohol problems after upsetting female colleagues at a gathering after an office Christmas party on Saturday night.
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