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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Friday 26th November 2021
5. Office Christmas parties will be smaller and more suburban this year, the boss of one of the UK's biggest pub groups has predicted.
Phil Urban of Mitchells & Butlers, which owns Browns, All Bar One and Harvester, said that seasonal work celebrations would be "different".
4. It is unclear whether the government's Kickstart scheme is creating quality job placements for 16-24 year olds, a watchdog says.
It is also unclear whether jobs created through the scheme would have been created anyway, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
3. Amazon workers in 20 countries - including the US, UK, and several in the EU - are planning protests and work stoppages on Black Friday, Amazon's busiest day of the year.
The Make Amazon Pay group says: "Amazon takes too much and gives back too little."
2. Travellers arriving in England from several southern African countries will have to quarantine amid warnings over a new coronavirus variant known as B.1.1.529, which one expert described as "the worst one we've seen so far".
UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said from 12:00 GMT on Friday six countries would be added to the red list, with flights being temporarily banned.
1. Shoppers are set to splurge on what could be the biggest Black Friday yet, experts say but they have been warned to expect less generous discounts and shortages of some products in this year's sale.
Analysts PWC predict £8.7bn will be spent - up from £7.8bn in 2019 and about twice as much as last year when the UK was in lockdown.