I waste that daily just reading this website.

Anon? You betcha!

"77 per cent mercifully insisted they'd made it to the toilet for a quick chat with God on the big white telephone"

I still prefer the classic 'driving the porcelain truck', a euphemism I picked up in Australia of all places....

Is this some kind of twisted conspiracy ? Reading the headline, I expected this to be yet another mewling pseudo study by unpopular slave masters the CBI, or another desperate 'don't shove your arse in the photocopier' story from the HSE. Now bastard Travelodge are getting in on the humbugging.

WTF is a cheap and nasty (well, nasty anyway) shag motel chain doing conducting 'research' like this ??? I mean, why ? Is this somehow supposed to make me want to stay in one of their turgid little establishments ? Where's the hook ?

Get a grip, it's christmas, everyone is going to be shit faced, if you don't like it, close your eyes. It has been like this for as long as I can remember and as long as my father can remember, and, oddly enough, as long as his father could remember. That's within delta of forever for planning purposes. And let's not forget that not to many years ago it was considered allowable (sometimes mandatory) to be shit faced IN the office at christmas.

Unless UK Biz is going to be uncharitably generous and give us an extra day's pay, this £790M they are losing will be dwarfed by the £2,719M* worth of free work they will gain this coming leap year!

Not to mention the free overtime they get from this country's long-hours culture...

* Using the same calculations and assumptions as the original.

Literally the worst spelling I've ever seen. Ever.

I'm guilty of the pub flu sickie on a weekly basis! :D

Will you stop reprinting crappy 'XXX will cost the UK economy £YYYm... study sponsored by ZZZ' press releases! With the combined cost to our economy of the World Cup, Facebook, long lunches, Christmas boozing, texting, office affairs, bunking off five minutes early on a Friday and junk email, we apparently shouldn't have an economy left, according to this PR fairytale bullshit.

Tell you what, here's another one: Ill fitting bras are costing UK industry £300 BILLION A YEAR in lost productivity! Study sponsored by, I dunno, Wonderbra, for a bit of free publicity.

It's nearly as bad as the BBC and their dumbass reprinting of 'Scientists discover a formula to predict how much toilet paper you will use... sponsored by Charmin' press releases.

Bloody lazy journalists, grr.

I don't live in England but if I did you'd be seeing me (with a clue bat) the last thing anyone needs is this sort of crap. We need our office parties we need to get loaded and have inappropriate sex we have Travel Lodges here too I could burn one down in sympathy.

...or does the author completely overlook that fact that tight companies will always choose to have their xmas parties on school nights to keep the costs lower.

If the parties were on friday nights, people wouldnt need to take sick days the following morning!

Is this the same Xmas that is worth some £15bn to business and commerce in sales and services?

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2204573/online-spend-reach-15bn-3681370

You can't have it both ways for every action has a reaction eh...