Office Holiday Party Booze Is Being Replaced With Guac and Pickleball
The classic end-of-year celebration — the office holiday party — has gotten a full makeover.
Traditional office holiday parties? Out. Pickleball lessons and guacamole-making contests? In.
Photographer: Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesMany companies are moving away from the champagne, sequins and “Secret Santa” gift exchanges of office Christmas parties crystallized in public consciousness through TV shows like The Office. Instead, business leaders are opting for year-end celebrations cut totally free from seasonal connotations.
That impulse is part of what led education technology company Outschool to explore options besides the typical dinner-and-drinks routine at a bar decked with boughs of holly. The startup’s staff opted to do something completely different this year: a pickleball lesson.