While workers won't be partying like it's 1999, early indications suggest there will be more joy -- and green -- spread at office get-togethers this holiday season. "Last year we were in the doldrums, but this year there's a glimmer," says Jaclyn Bernstein, president and partner of Empire Force Events, an event production company in New York City. "Clients who did their parties internally in 2002 have more money to spend now." "People are feeling like it's okay to spend this year," agrees Laurie Mask, CMP, national account manager for site selection firm HelmsBriscoe in Tampa, FL, who is organizing a $200-per-person shindig for a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical engineering firm and also negotiating with Microsoft and Wells Fargo on possible year-end celebrations. "I've noticed a trend of combining a Christmas function with a charity fundraiser," she adds. "The attitude is, 'I'm grateful business is good -- let's share it with someone.'"Not all sectors are celebrating, however. "The focus is on fourth-quarter results, not the holiday," says one independent planner. "For instance, pharmaceutical firms are having more elaborate parties than, say, the airline industry, while associations, even for-profit ones, are still struggling."