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\"\" <\/picture><\/a>This week, everyone at Microlise has been receiving a gift-a-day from a small army of generous elves.<\/p>\n

This heralds the beginning of the Christmas season in our offices.<\/p>\n

For twelve – or as is the case this year, 14 days – we will each receive a festive gift that may be practical, indulgent or just a bit of fun.<\/p>\n

It takes a fair amount of planning (and storage space) and a lot of thought and care, but the work done by our gift-bearing elves is extremely well-received here at Microlise HQ.<\/p>\n

And for those of us who don’t need any additional presents at this time of year, we have the option to re-gift them to a local charity, who supports families that struggle on a daily basis – and particularly at Christmas-time.<\/p>\n

Our Christmas initiative sits alongside other popular ‘thank-you’ events like our summer family BBQ, or the gifts we each receive for Easter and Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Microlise we thank our team for a year of hard work with a variety of daily gifts during the Advent season…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-opportunities","category-recruitment","tag-careers","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nCounting Down to Christmas - Microlise Style - Microlise Careers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microlise.com\/careers\/blog\/counting-down-to-christmas-microlise-style\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Counting Down to Christmas - 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