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In our previous post on company holiday parties, we noted that the Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. released its second-annual survey that found more companies will hold holiday parties this year despite economic jitters. Now a similiar survey by the executive-search firm Battalia Winston of New York finds exactly the opposite trend: 85 percent of companies plan to hold a holiday party this year, down from 94 percent last year. Both polls had about 100 respondents. That's nowhere near enough, of course, to constitute a real poll. But we won't let that stop us, either: Take our poll up there to the left on the same question. Perhaps we can document an entirely different trend, such as businesses' rising use of falacious polls to promote their services.

- Thomas Ginsberg