A note from The Times tells me that eight out of 10 bosses are cancelling Christmas parties for the staff this year.
The reasons, for once, aren't financial - they're social. Staff indulge in binge drinking, they harrass each other and the following day everyone's useless and unproductive. OK, that's a generalisation, but you get the picture.
Time to 'fess up - any readers ever held a staff event and lived to regret it?