Christmas Party 2021! Cancel, or not?

I am seeing articles in City AM and the FT of large companies (EY, Slaughter & May), who are cancelling their large firm wide Christmas parties in favour of smaller teams parties this year (due to Omicron, or Covid generally).

We are only a headcount of 60 and are still deciding what to do. What are you doing?

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  • We have a Christmas party booked for our company of 40 - it’s been highlighted as both a business and personal risk (if we all get covid, it’ll be a very early shutdown for Christmas, given the party is on the 10th…!).

    Equally, the vast majority of our teams are really keen to meet up after almost two years of really quite miserable times. As everyone else has said, it’s a tough call, although the decision to cancel may be made for us if the new variant really takes off over the next couple of weeks.
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  • We have a Christmas party booked for our company of 40 - it’s been highlighted as both a business and personal risk (if we all get covid, it’ll be a very early shutdown for Christmas, given the party is on the 10th…!).

    Equally, the vast majority of our teams are really keen to meet up after almost two years of really quite miserable times. As everyone else has said, it’s a tough call, although the decision to cancel may be made for us if the new variant really takes off over the next couple of weeks.
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