Holiday office party Advice to help you avoid HR Disciplinary Action (or Worse)!

Rev. Michael Robinson, M.S., Adjunct Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University

I absolutely love the Christmas holiday season. It’s filled with great joy, exuberance, and great merriment abounds! When it comes to holiday office parties, the merriment can sometimes cross the line and violate rules, policies, and laws that can land an overly-exuberant partygoing employee in deep trouble with the Human Resources department and/or local law enforcement. Holiday parties are great opportunities to have great social time with gathered employees and managers, but such parties can also be potential high-risk events for people behaving badly, especially if booze and other intoxicants are indulged by participants. Here’s some fun trivia, HR Digests reports that the first recorded holiday office party “took place in 1923 at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City. The event was organized by the Society for Personnel Administration and featured…

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