Celebrating birthdays in the office can be divisive, awkward, and an all-round waste of time.
How many people would you have to gather in a room for there to be a 99.9 chance that two people shared the same birthday? It turns out that it is fewer people than most imagine, only 70 people. This is all fine and dandy unless of course you happen to work with these people.
The employed are far less fortunate. Especially in large organisations. If you are employed in one of the top 55 traded public companies in Australia, which employ over 2365 people, it is probable that there is a staff birthday on every day of the year. That is about 1.2 million employees who face the prospect of one or more birthdays every day at work.
For many people, they are indifferent, embarrassed or even depressed at the prospect of their birthday. For those facing “milestone” birthdays, particularly in later years, the prospect of turning 40, 50, 60, 65 or 67 is not an occasion for celebration. For employees more advanced in years, marking the occasion each year in public may serve only to reinforce stereotypes associated with older employees, and possibly encourage speculation about the dreaded question. When is she finally going to retire?
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