group sex?
Close. We played Twister.
3. Take the time saved by not having group-hug meetings and add it to the time saved from not having to deal with the asshats, and give everyone every other Friday afternoon off. Heck, make it from 11:00am and have a "suggested lunch meeting spot" that is not an obligation, but let it be known that you're buying some appetizers.
4. I guarantee that #1-3 will increase productivity. Use a portion of the gains to close the office between Christmas and New Years and the time off is with pay.
Fantastic ideas!!! Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of clout.
The company I work for gives Christmas Day off; Christmas Eve and Boxing Day are NOT holidays, they say. New Years Day is also off, but nothing in between. We don't do August long weekend. Also, because July 1st lands on a Tuesday, we have to take Monday off without pay in order to get a long weekend then.
I just think its funny that our company pays for the CEO to have a condo in Calgary (we don't have an office in Calgary, we're in Airdrie) - that his son frequents for 'leisure time' - and we also pay for his airplane and all the costs (including fuel) that is associated with it. If we got Friday afternoons off, or even every other Friday afternoon off; our company moral would be so much higher.
But instead... we have group hugs.
At least today I had everyone laughing. Usually everyone's groaning about the stupid questionaires we have to take.