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Oh FFS...that is not a Christmas bonus. Nor are those 15% of your annual salary numbers.
Those are deferred compensation and/or performance bonuses. If a business can afford to drop another 1/6 of it's annual payroll on bonuses every December, then shouldn't it just be parsing that out to the employees over the course of the year in the form of increased pay?
I think that takes the bonus concept way too far. A Christmas bonus is designed as a gift, something to help your employees through an expensive time of the year. When it's 15% of your take home, that's not a gift - those employees absolutely counted on that. It's therefore not a bonus, but rather flat out compensation.
I know, that's probably too 'humbug' for a Christmas bonus thread. My bad.
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