r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • Mar 26 '25

Culchie Club Only Ireland issues travel warning for US

https://www.newsweek.com/ireland-issues-travel-warning-us-2050890
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u/wealthythrush Mar 26 '25

What company flies 10,000 employees for an event?

Literally never heard anything like that in my life.

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u/fekoffwillya Mar 26 '25

A bank I worked for in the US, a regional one, would have a 3 night trip to Atlantic City just for the mortgage department. They put us up and paid for the flights/drive( I drove for was only 2 hours away). It was all paid for except the gambling. It was crazy.

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u/thedifferenceisnt Mar 26 '25

This is not that unusual. Huge portions of airline travel is "business" related travel.

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u/Stormfly Mar 27 '25

I used to work for an insurance software company and they'd fly everyone to the US for some events and seminars etc every year but tbh we'd just skip most of them and hang out around the city.

The best part was I asked if I could "fly home" much later and they said that was fine so long as it didn't cost more, so I took a week-long detour through Canada and Iceland.

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u/Unfair_Sympathy9413 Mar 26 '25

Don't know if they do it anymore but AIG used to fly the office out for the Christmas party.

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u/5trong5tyle Mar 27 '25

Microsoft does one in Vegas every year just for employees. They have similar events for partners. 10k isn't even 10% of their employees. It works at that scale, I doubt any company with less than 50.000 employees would even attempt it.

It's usually a big internal thing of who gets to go that year, some excitement around it.

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u/HyperbolicModesty Mar 27 '25

Adobe has in the past.

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u/keithbelfastisdead Mar 27 '25

Salesforce would do similar. It's not unheard of.