{"id":33580,"date":"2015-12-29T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/?p=33580"},"modified":"2017-11-28T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:38:28","slug":"the-holiday-season-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/the-holiday-season-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holiday Season in the Middle East and North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year again! With only a few days left till we kick off 2016, it\u2019s the time to wrap up and start planning for the upcoming year. Many companies are throwing office parties to give employees a fresh new start, and many professionals travel to refresh their minds and start the New Year with new goals.<\/p>\n

The Bayt.com \u201cHoliday Season in the Middle East and North Africa\u201d infographic takes a look at how professionals and companies are preparing for the New Year. How many professionals travel during the holidays? How excited are professionals for 2016? What are some of the resolutions being made?<\/p>\n

Key Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n

76% of respondents say that their offices hold events to celebrate public holidays at least once a year.
\n80% say that they plan on making New Year resolutions.
\n53% say that they travel during their holidays.
\n66% say their office is \u201cmore fun\u201d during the holiday season.<\/p>\n

Data for the Bayt.com \u201cHolidays in the MENA Workplace\u201d poll was collected online from 20 November-18 December 2015, with 7,708 respondents from the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s that time of year again! With only a few days left till we kick off 2016, it\u2019s the time to wrap up and start planning for the upcoming year. Many companies are throwing office parties to give employees a fresh new start, and many professionals travel to refresh their minds and start the New…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> The Holiday Season in the Middle East and North Africa<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4609],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Holiday-Season-in-the-Middle-East-and-North-Africa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}