Our company is already a decade and a half. Every year we traditionally hold 3-4 corporate parties. On the 23rd of February, 8th of March, the birthday of the CFO, associated with the first day of summer, and, of course, the new year. Total, in the history of such events has accumulated at least fifty.
The most common phenomenon today is a corporate party in the style of "The Great Gatsby" or "Western". It's fun, cool, stylish! And what pictures and then on memory. So I think mostly managers and executives. If only they could hear what ordinary employees think about it. The most common question is, " where do I get this whole outfit?". Renting of such outfits for one evening will cost the ordinary staffers with a salary of 125 dollars a week a lot of money. In Moscow to rent a themed costume for a day on the average $ 50 plus a security Deposit, which may several times exceed the cost of renting. So Bosses, make your own conclusions. In the end - provide employees with the opportunity to rent outfits at the corporate expense.
Cooking class to the office, the lesson is a collective drawing or cutting out a jigsaw - it's all very new and definitely cool. Yes, that's only in the concept of an ordinary employee - a team building, not corporate. It is necessary to show themselves from the best side, do not forget to give in to the chiefs, strain the whole evening and still imitate the feeling of joy.
"And my husband at work all in Turkey were taken out for 4 days on an all-inclusive system! Here is the normal!"
Often, that is exactly what people thinking about it, especially when this kind of corporate event is being held during the weekend. This is the biggest injustice to hold a corporate event on Sunday evening, and Monday at 10 a.m. everyone in the office. You think nobody does that? Some chefs it seems important not to lose 3-4 working hours on Friday, because there may be lost sales. And the fact that after Sunday all through Monday corporate people are not able to work productively, they do not come to mind?
Oh, yeah, and there are party choices, too. Hundreds of agencies offer to organize such services. On your territory and outside and anywhere. And costumes with props will provide professional actors and labor collective diversify. I agree, can be very interesting and even exciting. The main quest in all of this, "when this is all over" or "what about the Banquet."
Many, not poor companies, adhere from year to year classics. A proven restaurant with good cuisine, live music and an improvised disco. Several tables around the perimeter of the hall. At first, everyone behaves modestly. They don't even drink alcohol until the chief says the first toast. Then the first break, after which the first ladies, usually older than 40 crawl on the dance floor with hit "I will survive". Usually it's the ladies from accounting dept. Sometimes they are joined by a human resources Department. After a couple minutes they start to support men, warehouse workers and security service. Classic corporate party. Usually ends way past midnight. Satisfied all, and even if the next morning they have a bad headache.
So this time we thought how this much-loved classics to give a touch of modernity and to shift away from the traditional feasts. It was decided to rent a small loft-style room with an equipped bar and a gorgeous view of evening Moscow. The highlight was the almost complete absence of seats. This is what did not allow the team to break into interest groups, as it happened, and to maintain full communication for as much as 7 hours.
Alexey
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