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I am in the US, and it says I have 11 days off. If I say I get 0 days off, it says: "Let's stretch your time off from 0 days to 18 days". It looks like it's counting the weekends prior to a holiday no matter what as a "bonus" day, which is a strange methodology to me. (I would expect that it would only count days that it performed some action to optimize, otherwise it's just table stakes)
Most companies don't take all public holidays; this ends up being primarily for Federal workers who do get each of those holidays. If you make a table of holidays and then check on/off those applicable, then have the algorithm fill back in as needed, that would be helpful.
If you add the ability to toggle days in various states this could be a really useful tool for me. Unfortunately I have family obligations that occur at various times in the year. Clickable cells that would change them from day/off or not could really help here.
Cool project! Some regional feedback coming from Sweden - your source data set is not 100% in line with what most workers in Sweden will get. For example, 24 December, 31 December and Midsummer's Eve are not reflected as days off in this calendar.
This seems like the start of something handy, but isn't yet useful. As others have mentioned, which holidays a company offers will vary. But more than that, given a number of days off and a calendar year, this currently seems to output only 1 result, though of course there are a large number of ties (in terms of consecutive days not worked). The current tool doesn't allow the user to 'edit' or swap between 'equally g…
Making it super customisable would be tough, as then it becomes just a personal calendar. Maybe showing the rankings transparently (3 options tied, choose which one wins) could be nice.
Like others have mentioned, being able to toggle which days are holidays would make this useful. I get (8) holidays each year: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. Two of my company holidays aren’t federal holidays, so being able to toggle arbitrary weekdays as holidays would also be useful. Also, sometimes holidays fall on the weekend and th…
Something is strange in the math for "Let's stretch your time off from X days to Y days" I am in the US, and it says I have 11 days off. If I say I get 0 days off, it says: "Let's stretch your time off from 0 days to 18 days". It looks like it's counting the weekends prior to a holiday no matter what as a "bonus" day, which is a strange methodology to me. (I would expect that it would only count days that it performe…
Very cool! It would be helpful if you just made a list of holidays we could check off. Im going to use this!
This is a great idea for something I typically do manually to plan around maximizing vacation time around when my kids have off. Would recommend being able to adjust the public holidays - for example: Juneteenth and Veterans day off were not days off of school+work. Other future improvements would be some kind of tie in for airfare - these are typically some of the most expensive times to fly. Love the idea