My work is paying £25 per person, including everyones "plus one" towards the xmas party!.
It's £15 per staff member with my employer, any guests have to pay for themselves.
Nearly all the staff have just ignored it anyway - hardly worth bothering with and it's always badly timed for some people's shifts.
My employer is in a slightly different situation - it's making huge profits, but it borrowed farcical amounts of money and promised vast profits that it can't deliver. It's so over-extended that it's fairly safe because there's nothing the investors can usefully do with it, so they've made the best of a bad job and accepted smaller payments. Unfortunately, there's an increasing tendency for all 180-odd very different outlets to be managed from head office as a single unit by people with no experience in the business because this is "more efficient". Unsurprisingly, it isn't. One size doesn't fit all and often doesn't properly fit anywhere when made by someone who has no experience of the business. It's so bad that we sometimes get instructions that are bona fide impossible to carry out because they're based on incorrect assumptions stemming from ignorance.
