More than half of employees across the UK will work over the Christmas period to fund the festivities.
According to a new survey conducted by Cotton Traders, 63% of British employees will be ditching traditional festive activities and will not be spending time with family
Instead respondents claimed that their efforts would be spent raising the cash to pay for their families festivities.
Out of the 1,000 employees surveyed, 30% will spend Christmas day in the office.
Although 40% of those surveyed do not have a choice about working over the festive period, almost half of British employees said they will do so to earn extra income to fund the festive month.
Others chose to work so that they can lend support to their colleagues.
Those that would be missing out on turkey dinners, Christmas television and time with their family cited that having no time to buy presents, reduced public transport and not being able to relax were the worst things about the festive period.