Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?

Do they define a longer vacation as a sabbatical? Or is there a specific business reason why someone would be limited to just two weeks? Is your employer in the US or another country? What state is your employer in, if it's in the US?

I live in Norway. State mandated 25 days off / 4 weeks + 1 day (paid). Can demand 3 of those weeks at once during summer, and 1 whole week at once any other time.

Most companies more lax than that. I have two extra weeks over the mandated, and can take them basically how I want as long I ask in advance.

I've never worked at a company that capped the maximum vacation that could be taken at once as a blanket policy. Though time off generally needs to be approved by a manager in advance, and I could imagine challenges getting some managers to approve very long vacations, people have always been able to work it out with advance planning.

I did work one place that mandated you needed to be out of the office for at least 5 consecutive days each calendar year. I'm not sure if it's still required, but there was a banking regulation that mandated it. The rationale was that if you were out of the office for at least a week, it would be harder to commit and easier to discover fraud.

Don't think we have a limit, but it's probably reasonable.

I took 3 weeks over xmas.

The most annoying thing here is they say they want 4 weeks notice for any vacation, even just a day, however I've not really seen it enforced.

Would you mind sharing the name of the company? This is a despicable policy and I think people looking for jobs should know who to steer clear from.