In New Myrca, everything - most businesses, all not-immediately-essential government departments, and definitely nonprofit office jobs like mine* - will come to a screeching halt Friday evening, and no one will be back in the office until January 7.
I think that's a much more sensible way to do things.

* Not that New Myrca probably has any nonprofits to speak of, given the size of the population and the effective level of technology; but if it did, they would.