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With Christmas just a few short weeks away, workplaces across the country are gathering to celebrate the season.

Typically, this means a drinking session, and with it the opportunity to drink a little too much with your colleagues.

Not only this, but a misjudged Secret Santa gift opened by the wrong person is a potential 'HR hand granade'.

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Kate Underwood, Founder at Southampton-based Kate Underwood HR and Training , warned business owners that Secret Santas and other gifts lavished at Christmas parties have a knack of going off the rails. Fast.

She said: "Working in HR, in January the Secret Santa stories come in thick and fast. Some are harmless, some less so. The Secret Santa has become an

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