If you haven't finished work for Christmas..

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How much work are you actually doing? (Appreciate if you work in retail you can't exactly slack off). But I have practically nothing to do. Just keeping an eye on my laptop at this stage...

Our teams auto goes to yellow (away) after less than 5 minutes of inactivity and it looks like IT have it locked down so you can’t change that. I find it annoying as I often have my head down in stuff that I’m not using my computer for and then realise it looks like I’m not doing anyway, which couldn’t be more wrong!

So now if I’m wanting to get on with something, I set myself up a teams call with just myself and join that - it shows me as “busy” that way and has the added bonus of people not bothering me as a result because it tells them I’m in a call. If I really don’t want to be disturbed I share a screen in the call too as it then puts me on to “Do not disturb” lol!

Work in childcare so looking after hyper, over tired, excited, emotional preschoolers! Lots of work to do still.

I stopped asking for time off close to Christmas- it was so quiet I could do all my lists and running orders for the big day- a total waste to have it off, take time in January when it will be crazily busy. I used to take 3days off in the 2nd week of december and do a lot of the prep and freezing plus wrapping the presents.

I work in tax, absolutely run off my feet and could really do without Christmas getting in the way.

We need to have a certain level of staff trained in a particular skill available to monitor the service inbox (although we're not commissioned to provide an emergency service) during normal working hours - so it's quite quiet in general, can get caught up on my backlogged admin stuff rather than patient facing stuff, and just check the team inbox periodically because there WILL be a care team somewhere freaking out about if someone on this type of diet can have sprouts for Xmas lunch who've not thought about this until Xmas Eve and then send us frantic emails.

I've taken bits of leave to work short weeks the rest of December rather than having "Christmas off" this year as I'm ridiculously burnt out (I have autism so I have to monitor my levels of peopleness quite well) which seems to have kept me going so far.

Same high level productivity as any other time of the year. I don't get many queries so I save a lot of admin for this time of year. I'll be updating our intranet pages, filling, preparing presentations and templates.

I'm at work at the moment & it's Very quiet so I'm having a Mumsnet browse