If public bodies and government departments are meant to be worried about offending people about Christmas, where I work missed that memo. I work for a public body with coworkers who have had Christmas trees on their desks since September, where there is a specific Christmas committee that's been meeting since September, and so far I have dates for 4 separate Christmas nights out plus several office Christmas events and multiple email a week specifically about Christmas wellbeing - the last one at least acknowledge some find it a difficult time of year.
There are many many examples of companies / councils avoiding the word Christmas in favour of "festive season" or similar for years. No doubt this was done to be inclusive.
The earliest uses of festive in English back in the 1600s were largely in reference to Christmas. The Oxford Dictionary I have has the definition for festive as "relating to a festival, especially Christmas."
Presuming festive, winter, or the like can only be used to avoid the word Christmas or to be more inclusive is rage bait and a lack of imagination. There are plenty of other reasons, including simply wanting to use more than just the word Christmas. Where I work specifically used the term 'Festive Decor' and keep talking about helping people get into the 'festive spirit', not out of avoiding Christmas, but because they like the sound of it. It can really be that simple.
Those that may get offended should just think of it as a celebration they don’t participate in and move on rather than cause a racket.
And do you have an example of us making any racket, cause the many on this thread have already said that's what we already try to do.
I haven't celebrated Christmas since I was a teenager. I largely keep a mindset that 'if it makes people happy' and get on with ignoring it. I'm not offended by it. If anything, I find people more offended and making quite a racket made at me for not celebrating - over the years, on top of this annual blaming us and apparently the government for not using the word Christmas enough and ruining the open celebration of Christmas for everyone else, I've been told I shouldn't have been allowed to migrate to the UK because of it, that not celebrating it and not putting up a Christmas tree is child abuse, that charity donors will get upset if families using programmes to help their disabled children are allowed to opt out of getting Christmas gifts even when families state it's because they're financially well off and would prefer those funds went elsewhere, and I've been both snapped at and made the butt of jokes at work for not simply not participating.
I'm actually considering getting noise cancelling headphones for work and asking to use them when working in the open office largely because for over a month now, Christmas has been the main conversation topic and I'm finding it really draining. I would rather leave them to it if it makes them happy, but I need a way to not be part of that.