Its 9pm on a Friday night and work colleagues have come together with Santa hats, reindeer hairbands and Christmas jumpers. Drinks in hand, they spend almost two hours laughing, joking, chatting, singing and cracking in-jokes.
But this isn't a scene from Christmas past, its taking place in 2020, and what is happening is fully compliant with public health guidelines.
It's one of around 200 virtual office Christmas parties being hosted by Dynamic Events this festive season. The events company normally hosts around fifty corporate Christmas parties over the festive period.
But after significant investment in their conferencing equipment and zoom licences they've moved the experience online and dozens of big names firms based in Ireland have