Seriously?!
I hate waste and think that it was ungracious of the people that did this.
Many employers are cutting back on Christmas gifts/parties etc (in my own organisation, for the first time ever, staff did not receive anything this year as part of efficiency savings.)
If people weren't interested in reading them, I think it would have been better to give them to a charity shop, sell them on ebay or even "re-gift" them.
I could have got myself a bargain