Cool, based on geolocation it gets the vacation days for your country.
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
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#42I typically try to take annual leave and to travel exactly on the opposite dates to what this tool recommends. That's because I care more about avoiding the significant extra expense, traffic, and crowds of travel over public holiday periods, than I do about getting a few extra "free days" of leave. No free lunch!
Good luck traveling on work days!
Ummm... driving out of my metro area, in any direction, on a work day: zero traffic! Doing so at the start of a long weekend / during Xmas - New Year: horrendous traffic! Is that not the case for you?
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#43My employer sets aside a few extra holidays to bridge holidays to the weekend. For example this year July 4th was on Thursday so they gave the Friday off too. They also give Winter holidays from 24th to the 1st so its aligned right, a few more vacation days and it adds up to two weeks. And usually the day before long holidays teams tend to work half day so sometimes you don't even need to take a day off.
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#44This 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…
Thanks for your feedback! Indeed the algorithm only gives one result, as it tries to fill all gaps from smallest to biggest in the best way possible to create clusters. 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.
I think a simple feature that would actually effectively enable what they wanted would be to let the user manually add days which should be included in the PTO
Like maybe make the days clickable and give us a popover button for : it'd like this day to be free - and just tread this day as a holiday from there (while deducting the day from the quota)
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#45Interesting idea but I do not see the point: people are able to compute the same results mentally very easily.
By the way, I would suggest adding an option: how many consecutive days off does the company allow. And which days are absolutely not allowed to be taken.
10 years ago, in my company (based in Japan), taking a day off on the first day of the week (generally Monday unless there's an holiday) was not allowed due to the general meeting kicking off the week. This changed recently in my company but as this meeting is common in many Japanese companies, some companies might still apply this restriction.
Likewise, taking a day off before or after a holiday was not allowed except for some specific days (typically Golden Week end of April/beginning of May, Obon in August, and the end of year/New Year). This changed a few years ago.
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#46I typically try to take annual leave and to travel exactly on the opposite dates to what this tool recommends. That's because I care more about avoiding the significant extra expense, traffic, and crowds of travel over public holiday periods, than I do about getting a few extra "free days" of leave. No free lunch!
Good luck traveling on work days!
I love doing vacations that start/end midweek. It’s nice to buffer either end of the trip with short work weeks, midweek travel can be less frantic, and being able to spend weekend days at your vacation destination often lets you do more fun things rather than being there on weekdays
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#47This 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…
Thanks for your feedback! Indeed the algorithm only gives one result, as it tries to fill all gaps from smallest to biggest in the best way possible to create clusters. 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.
Hi Zachd,
I like this, but I'd like to be able to do it for custom date ranges, and add custom constraints.
for example, my company has mandatory shutdown days, I have x additional days leave, and z study days leave that I expected to not use more than 1 study day in the same week and I need to use some of my leave by 30 jun as australia businesses manage the financial year as july to june, not jan to december.
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#48Feature request: Enter company shut down dates.
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#49Great tool and excellent design . I’ve always wanted something like this.
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#50IMO taking off Thanksgiving Friday is a red herring. Everyone takes that day off, so anyone still in isn't expected to do much. I'll be "working" from home that day.