Around 25% of Deque’s more than 300 employees are based outside the U.S., and having a party in December seemed too aligned with a “traditional, dare I say, Christian American holiday season,” Sims said.Deque Systems, a digital accessibility company, hasn’t had a virtual or IRL holiday party in a decade, according to Glenda Sims, Deque’s chief information accessibility officer. Then there are the companies that won’t be doing much at all. This year, HR teams started calling after Labor Day and inquiries are still coming in, according to Porcelli and White. Pre-pandemic, companies started planning holiday parties four to six months in advance. One major difference has been the cadence of bookings.“Celebrity chefs, different stations, unique culinary options, and unique venues.” “Companies are using holiday parties as a way to bring folks back to the office and entice them with really unique experiences,” Porcelli said. Clients are bringing in jugglers, hot chocolate stands, and carolers, according to Porcelli.“Hybrid is much less of a focus, is what we’re noticing, from a meeting and events perspective,” Porcelli said.“That being a priority, we did prioritize this in our budget.”Ĭompanies this year are split between in-person bashes and taking a more virtual approach with mailed gifts, according to Phoenix Anna Porcelli, VP of sales at Convene. “There’s still something so special and magical about bringing people together and not being on Zoom,” Branham told me.(The company has offices in all three cities.) The parties are planned for Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the Gherkin in London, and Casa Pedro Loza, an 1848 mansion-turned-hotel in Guadalajara.Salesloft, a 915-person sales software maker, is spending “well over seven figures” on its three holiday parties, which will be the company’s first IRL year-end celebrations since before the pandemic, according to VP of people Katie Cox Branham. One company asked NPU about installing an ice skating rink at its party, White said, which is “definitely doable in some of the bigger spaces that we have.” Parties this year are going to be “a little bit more toned down” than in 2019, White said, but some will still be flashy.
NPU is working on parties of up to 2,500 to 3,000 people this year, down from 5,000 to 6,000 pre-COVID-19, according to Shannon White, NPU’s Bay Area general manager.(This year, Meta’s holiday parties will “likely happen on a team by team basis depending on office/site/location,” spokesperson Tracy Clayton told me.) This year’s biggest tech company holiday parties will be half the size that they were before the pandemic, according to Non Plus Ultra, the venue and events company that hosted Meta’s lavish 2019 Game of Thrones-themed year-end bash.
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