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A Handmade Diwali Diya Lamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Diwali, or Deepawali, the \u00a0Festival of Light, marks an official holiday in many countries around the World, and a celebration amongst Hindu communities in others. It’s a five day festival, and\u00a0an official holiday in Fiji, Guyana, India,\u00a0Nepal, Sri Lanka,\u00a0Malaysia,\u00a0Myanmar, Mauritius,\u00a0Singapore\u00a0, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago. This year it starts on\u00a0November 3, 2013.<\/p>\n

Firstly, for regular customers, this will affect our Singapore office – but if you care to leave a message, we’ll get back to you soonest. Otherwise, feel free to call our central office in the UK. (You can find the numbers and details here: contact Global Integration<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And secondly, but equally important, is how this affects us all in the Workplace. In 2011 we wrote some of those thoughts up in a post, which we think you’ll still enjoy –\u00a0This week: Diwali<\/a>. \u00a0This year we’re posting it a little earlier so that you genuinely have time to prepare – after all, five days out of a work project is a fair amount of time, and it’s very easy when you live somewhere to forget that others, elsewhere, won’t be celebrating with you.<\/p>\n

Let’s join the celebration<\/h2>\n

We’d love to know how you are celebrating Diwali. How’s it celebrated in your workplace? Do you work with people who are celebrating, and how does your workplace respond?<\/p>\n

We’ll get some luxury Indian sweets delivered to the person with the best answer. You can share here, send your photos to claire[@]www.global-integration.com (taling out the brackets) for posting here or on our Facebook page<\/a>, or tweet them to @GlobalInteg<\/a> on Twitter. (Email the same address (above) if you’d like to add to our Pinterest board for Diwali: https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/globalpicks\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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