介绍： Bartleby

巴托比职场专栏
Let them eat Christmas cake
何不食圣诞蛋糕
Don’t make seasonal festivities too formal
不要让年会太正式
Everyone feels like winding down in December. Even if you do not celebrate Christmas, the New Year is approaching and most people take a few days’ break. In many workplaces this fe...

介绍： Bartleby

巴托比职场专栏
Let them eat Christmas cake
何不食圣诞蛋糕
Don’t make seasonal festivities too formal
不要让年会太正式
Everyone feels like winding down in December. Even if you do not celebrate Christmas, the New Year is approaching and most people take a few days’ break. In many workplaces this feeling of “mission accomplished” is accompanied by an established tradition: the office party.
每个人都想在十二月放松一下。即使你不庆祝圣诞节，新年即将来临，大多数人都会休息几天。在许多工作场所，这种“任务完成”的感觉伴随着一个既定的传统：办公室派对。
In boom times these can be truly lavish affairs. Robbie Williams sang at Deutsche Bank’s global-equities party in 2001. A Bloomberg event in 2000, based on the seven deadly sins, was said to have cost £1m (then $1.5m). At the “Googlympus” in 2006, the internet group had tents named after different Greek gods while staff amused themselves at the “wine cork shooting gallery”.
在繁荣时期，这可能是真正的奢侈。2001年，罗比·威廉姆斯在德意志银行的全球股票派对上演唱。2000年，彭博社根据七宗罪举办的一场活动据说耗资100万英镑(当时汇率约合150万美元)。2006年，在Googlympus 派对上，谷歌互联网集团用希腊诸神的名字为帐篷命名，员工们则在“葡萄酒软木射击馆”自娱自乐。

Few companies today desire the publicity that tends to follow such events.

如今，很少有公司希望在此类活动上得到公众关注。