Virtual holiday parties may be disasters. But they’re also learning experiences for 2021 MORE Santa Claus, right, and Mrs. Claus, aka Corey and Holly Anderson, participate in a Zoom video from Santa s makeshift office-turned-studio at the Eugene Family YMCA. Photo by Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via Imagn Content Services, LLC/Reuters.
This pandemic year meant confronting much of the country’s dysfunction and flaws. There’s one final reckoning to end the year: the holiday party.
These celebrations, especially work-related ones, are usually fraught affairs. The social pressure to pretend to be a normal person who knows how much food to pile on a plate without it collapsing that can drive anyone to alcohol. Which leads to bad dancing or, worse, lawsuits.