Will Omsk companies refuse New Year's corporate events? "Omsk Here" learned the opinions of heads of enterprises, shopping centers, mass media, fitness clubs. The time for New Year's corporate parties is coming, but there is no holiday atmosphere. The pandemic and the crisis associated with it are forcing Russians to abandon festivities in their usual format. Most companies do not plan any events, someone transfers them online, some managers gave their employees a New Year's bonus instead of a holiday, and someone did not even bother with this. Stanislav Zhoglik, editor-in-chief of "Novy Omsk": Every year, on December 31, my colleagues and I make a project on our website called "Editorial Kitchen", where in the process of preparing for the New Year we post photos and share our emotions and congratulations. Perhaps this year we will limit ourselves to just such a corporate party. And, in addition, we will think about how our comrades who have distinguished themselves during the year can demonstrate the corporation's concern in a more understandable equivalent for the market. But let it remain a surprise for now. Sergei Dolgov, head of the MetroFitness fitness club chain: Due to the epidemiological situation, of course, I canceled the corporate party and did not give any bonuses to the employees. This is how I am Karabas-Barabas (laughs). But seriously, we have optimized the costs associated with the cost of organizing celebrations for employees. But we still use funds to attract customers and organize promotions. Traditionally, we have made a festive decoration of our gyms. Yes, employees have suffered in this situation. We decided that each club will celebrate the New Year at home, but of course, we will not hold a large team, as we did before, this year. Anna Zakharchenko, director of the IT company ASMART: We have a team of only 18 people. They always gave sweet gifts and certificates for achievements in a year. This year we are presenting useful sweets: honey and tea. We did not refuse the corporate party, we spend it in the cottage, since we have been working offline for a long time. The year was difficult, and without a holiday it is absolutely impossible. I would like to raise the spirit and mood of the team. We will also go to the rink. Viktor Shkurenko, Director of Trade House Shkurenko LLC: We refused the winter corporate party, as well as the summer one. There will be no events. We have decorated the office for the holiday and will traditionally distribute gifts to employees - food sets. While this situation is wrong, there is no point in encrypting. All our employees were sympathetic to this. Tatyana Ermakova, Head of the Corporate Projects Department of GC Titan JSC: The Titan Group of Companies is a large organization with thousands of employees, so compliance with security measures during the coronavirus pandemic has become a priority for us. The team understands the justification of the innovations and strictly adheres to all security measures. But we found a way out of the situation and transferred the events to a new online format for us. So, for the company's birthday, we prepared an online quiz IQ-battle "Titan" in the game! "organized using remote technologies. The event managed to involve not only the company's employees from different cities of Russia, but also partners who gladly joined us. On New Year's Eve, we are planning to arrange an online holiday for the children of the company's employees. In addition to New Year's gifts, kids will receive a surprise in the form of an interactive entertainment event in the online format "MorozTV". During the broadcast, Santa Claus will play games with the children, arrange interactive activities, and the children, in turn, will be able to ask the wizard their questions live. Maria Rybka, marketer of the Skuratov Coffee chain: We do not plan to arrange general holidays, each coffee shop or department where employees already see each other every day decides for themselves whether to arrange a small holiday meeting. Due to the difficult epidemiological situation, for example, we did not celebrate April 7 at all - the day when we traditionally celebrate two gender holidays: March 8 and February 23. Tamara Ponomareva, public relations specialist of the Omsk Philharmonic Society: This year we have combined two holidays. On the day of the festive concert in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Omsk Philharmonic Society, we congratulated each other in the close circle of our philharmonic family. It was decided not to hold a large festive event, as it was before, due to the difficult epidemiological situation.
