The coronavirus will miss the holidays: some employers will celebrate virtual vacations, others will save money | 15MAX

In 2020, the neighbors already had to stop traveling, working from the office, family vacations and even Easter. Now is the time for a corporate holiday celebration.

There will be no more parties in recent years with bands, banquet tables, entertainment and dancing this year.

“The current situation regarding COVID-19 is changing established traditions, so we will not host a Christmas party for employees this year. You will have to take the opportunity to greet employees remotely. However, we will try to feel the festive spirit in action, so we will decorate the traditional festive Christmas tree in the courtyard of the Port Authority, we will decorate workplaces with festive accents. 15 minutes said Dalia Gun, marketing manager for the Klaipeda State Port Authority.

This year there will be no annual company celebration for employees’ children, but D. Gun added that employees, like every year, are planned to celebrate with symbolic Christmas gifts.

This year, the usual Christmas party will not be organized by the telecommunications company Tele2. Communication manager of the company Andrius Baranauskas 15 minutes He stated that the company is currently considering possible alternatives.

“It just came to our attention then. I still don’t know what it will be and if there will be something in place of the Christmas holidays, ”said A. Baranauskas.

All traditional festivals are frozen.

Paulius Šiupienius, Director of the event organizer Grail Events 15 minutes He said corporate Christmas parties have become very popular with employees in recent years. During December and January, the event organizer hosted up to 15 events for medium and large companies, attended by between 100 and 800 people.

However, at the end of October this year, before the introduction of the second quarantine, only two companies applied for Grail Events.

“It just came to our attention then. Before the introduction of the second quarantine, there were still thoughts from a couple of customers about the holidays, but after the quarantine announcement, everything was frozen,” revealed P.Šiupienius.

The event organizer understands that with such a rapid spread of the pandemic in the country, there can be no other way, because the risk of spreading the virus in the indoor event, with 500 participants and another 100 members of the service staff, is very high.

For logical reasons, I am not suggesting or campaigning to organize parties this year, – said P.Šiupienius.

“I don’t know of a customer who risks half the illness from the party and has to close the factory for half a month. For logical reasons, I am not suggesting or campaigning for parties this year. I cross the business, but it would be wise abstain and there is no logic to organize a Christmas event this year ”, said the organizer of the event.

Mantas Paliokas, director of the event organization company Extremedelight.lt, agrees that only a small number of companies are still thinking about this year’s Christmas events.

“If in the past there were pompous events with groups, indoors in the western part, this year there is no such trend.” Companies save budgets and don’t organize security events for fear of uncertainty. ” 15 minutes commented M. Paliokas.

One tenth will offer nothing to employees

Aušra Bytautienė, Director of the Association of Personnel Management Professionals (PVPA) 15 minutes concludes that this year is completely different, and many companies, even in mid-November, have not yet decided how to deal with Christmas events, whether to organize something or look for alternatives.