How Often Does Your Group of Employees Have Social Gatherings?

[PacificFlights]

We have four tyopes of events
1. Corporate. These are mainly centerdd on annual employee incentive meeting and periodic special event outings. The annual incentive event is a formal all expense paid thank you event to the employees. Its a 3 - 5 day affair ususally located in some resort someplece int he world. Alle mployees and a gurst are invited but not manditory to attend.

The perioric events are more in line with functions where employees are needed to asist but its more along the lines of volunteering. Example is the Paris Air Show, anyone available can attend as a company representative and compmnay sponsored social events are common.

2. Operation Center events. This is a local office function usualy a dinner dance and maybe some regional award event. Exavclty what we do is determened locally and paid for by the company. In some locations like Europe or middle east, several centers may pool funds for a grander event.

3. Personal events are thrown by the employees for theach others. Birthdays, anniversaries, new babies, dicvorce, whatever. Beacsue we are a close group of emeployees, these have becomes routine social events we all participate in becase they participate in the ones for us. There is a corporate policy that these events are personal and at no time can anything about these events interfere with operations AND nothing with or at these events can be used for or against an employee (with certain exceptions).

4. Our time. Basically since we tend to work in groups for operation missions, we hang out togtehr often. I mean your in Moscow for 24 hours so most likely everyone is going to be at the same hotel, eat pretty much at the same retsurants and hang out in the same lounges. We generally stick together. That also transalates to getting off a 9 day mission and everyone stopping at the bar to unwinds and relax before crashing at the crew room before heading home.

However, once I;m home home, we're all scattered around so social activites with co-workersr are more like a planned visit and stay someplace versus just meeting up at the same bar and having some drinks.

[Trackwatch]

At a previous job we averaged one "party" a month, then that dropped down to about one a quarter.

Some of them were at the office others at an outside restaurant.

[sftoma]

Absolutely none. My husband's company on the other hand is party central.

[gentlearts]

In the 80s I worked at a place in which the girls went out to drinks and dinner frequently, for any excuse, and I remember enjoying it. At the time I had young children at home, so I guess I needed the break.
Now, I work with people I like very much, but when I get out of work, I just want to go home and put my feet up.
DH's company has an annual Christmas Party. It is like torture for both of us, since we have absolutely nothing in common with them, but we go. We are social people, but anymore we have sort of a "been there, done that" attitude.