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Fun experiment but in reality people take vacation in the summer due to the season and schools, not because there are more public holidays then. This tool just told me to take all of December off, great time to sit somewhere in the cold.
Fun experiment but in reality people take vacation in the summer due to the season and schools, not because there are more public holidays then. This tool just told me to take all of December off, great time to sit somewhere in the cold.
Nice tool! Some feedback: - The subtitle telling me I can "stretch [my] time off from 20 days to 42 days" is quite misleading. This tool doesn't magically give me more vacation days. - Much of the page isn't helpful (in NL there are 6 consecutive months without holidays), would suggest only showing months where "stretching" is possible.
Ha, this reminds me of a very similar practice I used to engage in with a few buddies when we started work. It was always fun to try to figure out how to optimize the PTO to get the “most days per day”. Nowadays, I find that the best time to take PTO is when I feel like taking PTO. Taking a long weekend when I’m feeling burnt out or disengaged goes much further for me than grinding for the entire first half of th yea…
Agreed, in Switzerland this idea of "stretching" is common but I find it stupid. Weather going to be bad? Doesnt matter, I can stretch my total time off 3 days more!!! Total off season to where I am traveling to? Doesnt matter, I get that single extra "bridge" day! Man so cringe. I don't know, seems much easier that if you dont want to work then don't! I mean the tool OP posted recommended 2 weeks off at the end of M…
It's like peak cross country season?! Still loads of snow, but nice weather. I skied in shorts and a tshirt for days this easter!
You know you don't have to do as the tool says? It just highlights one of many variables you can use when deciding when to take your time off. If you have other needs (as your weather thingy, or spontaneity, or when kids are off school), you are of course free to take that into account.
Fun experiment but in reality people take vacation in the summer due to the season and schools, not because there are more public holidays then. This tool just told me to take all of December off, great time to sit somewhere in the cold.
December is a great time to take a vacation to somewhere warm if you don't like the winter. I like to travel to the Canary Islands from end of December to January. Last time we had 20-25 degrees. Definitely warm enough for the beach.
Really neat idea! However, half of the world has Monday as the first day of the week. A setting to change that would be nice :) Also there are some holidays missing for Sweden. This is stated in the Swedish Annual Leave Act, which establishes that Midsummer's Eve as well as Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve is to be considered equivalent to a Sunday. https://www.government.se/contentassets/eaf3467d4f484c9fb727...
Doesn't work for Sweden anyway, because people will think you're mad if you don't take at least three weeks in July/August, where there are no other public holidays. Maybe a feature where I'm manually picking some days and it tries to figure out the best way to stretch the remaining nice would be useful.
I also would like the week to start on a monday, btw. Perhaps it could be tied to the country? When choosing norway, calender could shift to how it's displayed here.
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Good luck traveling on work days!
Surprised this passive agressive comment is not further downvoted. Doesn't add to the conversation. Anyway, OP has a point. I hate traveling on the same day everyone else plans to due to some holiday gap / bridge / whatever.
also on the plus side, lot of colleges takes leave in December. so, workloads on that time are also less. it's like a mini vacation if one WFH during that period.
There is another layer to holidays optimisation based on stressful days though: eg. I'd rather work on a friday (when tons of people are off anyway, little chance of anyone bothering me with some meetings) than a monday; similarly I'd rather work around Christmas time than any other.